Full-Time Faculty

Janusz Adamus
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Local analytic geometry, singularities, local algebra
Biography: Ph.D., University of Toronto (2003)

Tatyana Barron
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Analysis on manifolds, complex geometry, symplectic geometry, automorphic forms, quantization
Biography: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University (1998)

Jason Bertram
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Theoretical population genetics, evolutionary dynamics, stochastic processes, population dynamics
Biography: Ph.D., Australian National University (2015)

Taylor Brysiewicz
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Numerical algebraic geometry, symbolic-numeric algorithms, computer algebra, polyhedral geometry, combinatorics
Biography: Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2020

Dan Christensen
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Algebraic topology, homotopy type theory, derived categories, modular representation theory, mathematical physics, algebraic and scientific computation
Biography: Ph.D., MIT, 1997

Matt Davison
Dean, Faculty of Science, ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Financial Mathematics, particularly Commodity Finance Mathematics and Data Science to study Financial Wellness Stochastic Optimal Control including Hamilton Jacobi Bellman PDE, Applied Probability Theory, Industrial Mathematics

Graham Denham
Professor, ChairResearch Interests / Specializations: Arrangements of hyperplanes; algebraic aspects of matroid theory; combinatorial algebraic geometry
Biography: PhD at the University of Michigan in 1999

Ajneet Dhillon
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Algebraic geometry, algebraic stacks, moduli of bundles, essential dimension and derived categories. Currently I am studying derived categories of root stacks with a view to applications in arithmetic geometry.

Matthias Franz
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Transformation groups, toric topology, homological algebra, computer algebra

Asghar Ghorbanpour
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Noncommutative geometry, spectral geometry, and mathematical physics

Chris Hall
Associate Professor, Associate Chair (Undergraduate)Research Interests / Specializations: Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry

David Jeffrey
SMSS Outreach and Research Director, ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Microhydrodynamics, Low Reynolds Number Flow, Lubrication, Suspensions of particles, Flows in Industrial Machinery, Computer Algebra Systems

Chris Kapulkin
Associate Professor, Associate Chair (Graduate)Research Interests / Specializations: Homotopy Theory, Category Theory, Formalization of Mathematics, Cryptography

Masoud Khalkhali
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Noncommutative geometry, mathematical physics, noncommutative spectral geometry and geometric analysis, cyclic cohomology, operator algebras, quantum groups and Hopf algebras.

Nicole Lemire
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Associate Professor Birational invariant theory, multiplicative invariants, algebraic groups, Galois cohomology, Lie theory, representation theory, lattices, essential dimension, vector bundles over curves

Ján Mináč
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Class field theory, Galois cohomology, absolute Galois groups, group cohomology, motivic cohomology, anabelian geometry, Langlands program

Lyle Muller
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Spectral methods, Signal/image processing, Computational neuroscience, Random-graph theory

Khoa Nguyen
Assistant ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Quantum Field Theory, Stochastic processes, Control Systems, Differential equations

Martin Pinsonnault
Associate ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Symplectic geometry, Gromov-Witten invariants, Hamiltonian groups actions, low dimensional topology
Teaching: Metric Space Topology, Lie Groups
Biography: Ph.D., UQAM, 2002

Greg Reid
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Nonlinear differential equations (especially PDE), Algorithms (especially for Computer Algebra), Geometric & Algebraic Algorithms

David Riley
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Combinatorial associative and Lie algebra; the relationship between actions, gradings, and identities.

Hristo Sendov
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Joint with the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Science

Rasul Shafikov
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Several complex variables: holomorphic mappings and CR geometry; polynomial and rational convexity and approximation theory; Levi-flat sets.

Gord Sinnamon
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Hardy inequalities, Fourier inequalities, function spaces, positive operators

Lindi Wahl
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Theoretical population genetics, Mathematical models of experimental evolution, Microbial evolution

Geoff Wild
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Mathematical Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Modelling Animal Behaviour

Pei Yu
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Nonlinear dynamical systems, Stability, bifurcation, and chaos, Mathematical biology, Hilbert's 16th problem and limit cycles theory, Normal form computation

Xingfu Zou
ProfessorResearch Interests / Specializations: Applied differential equations (PDEs, ODEs and DDEs) and dynamical systems, mathematical biology (or biomathematics)