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The AARMS Board of Directors

	Jacques Yves Guigné, Chair - serves as the Founder and President / Board Director of Intelligent Sciences Ltd. and Co-Founder, Director and Board member of PanGeo Subsea Inc. and of Acoustic Zoom Inc. (Jacques is the President and Chief Scientist/ Geophysicist for Acoustic Zoom Inc. and Executive Director and Chief Scientist/Geophysicist for PanGeo Subsea Inc.).
	Mark Abrahams - a behavioural ecologist who studies the risk of predation and its impact upon aquatic ecosystems. This work is of fundamental importance to understanding how ecosystems operate, as well as having application to conservation ecology and invasion dynamics. He worked at the University of Manitoba for 18 years before moving to Memorial University where he is the Dean of Science.
	Alejandro Adem - Canada Research Chair and Professor of Mathematics at UBC. He received his Ph.D. in 1986 from Princeton University and after a postdoctoral position at Stanford University he became a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before moving to UBC in 2004. He has been Director of PIMS since July 2008. His research interests are primarily in algebraic topology and group cohomology.
	Jacques Allard - Professor of Statistics at Université de Moncton. He received his Ph.D. from UBC and held post-doctoral positions at Oxford University and Université de Montréal. He has been professor at Université de Moncton since 1979 where he was also chair of the Département de mathématiques et de statistique from 2000 to 2006. Most of his research is in applied statistics with an emphasis on fisheries management application. He has also been a consultant to the private and public sectors since 1984.
	Edward Bierstone - Director of the Fields Institute and Professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto. He earned his B.Sc. from the University of Toronto (1969) and his Ph.D. from Brandeis University (1973). He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Bures-sur-Yvette) and IMPA (Rio de Janeiro). Ed's honours include Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1992), an invited address at the American Mathematical Society Annual Meeting (1997), the Jeffery-Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society (2005), and the Excellence in Teaching Award of the CMS (2008). Ed has made groundbreaking contributions in the areas of algebraic geometry and singularities of differentiable functions. His work on resolution of singularities (in collaboration with Pierre Milman) has played a major part in a revival of activity in the area; the constructive techniques involved have led to applications in fields as diverse as logic and analysis.
	David Bremner - David Bremner holds Ph.D. in Computer Science from McGill University (1997). David was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington from 1997 to 1999. Since 2000 David has been a faculty member at the University of New Brunswick, and is currently a Professor of Computer Science (cross-appointed to the Department of Mathematics and Statistics). David has held visiting positions at the Technical University of Munich (as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow), the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics. He is currently the MITACS Atlantic Scientific Director. David's main research interests are in geometric aspects of optimization, particularly algorithmic problems about convex polyhedra and hyperplane arrangements.
awaiting image	David Burns - Vice-President Research, UNB.
	Hugh Chipman - Hugh Chipman is interested in computationally intensive statistical methods, including Bayesian computation, statistical and machine learning, and applications involving network data, drug discovery, and industrial statistics. He is a professor and Canada Research Chair at Acadia University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He received his doctorate at the University of Waterloo, and has held academic positions at the University of Chicago and the University of Waterloo.
	Robert Gilmour - currently is Vice President, Research at the University of Prince Edward Island. He formerly was a Professor of Physiology in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education at Cornell University, where he led a multidisciplinary group of investigators whose publications have appeared in both cardiovascular and physics journals. He also was a member of the Executive Committee for the IGERT-sponsored program in non-linear systems at Cornell and was a member of the Graduate Fields of Physiology, Pharmacology, Bioengineering and Computational Biology. His research interests are centered on theoretical and experimental studies of heart rhythm disorders. .
	Viqar Husain - Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton), and Affiliate Researcher at the Perimeter Institute since its founding. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Yale University (1989). His fields of research are general relativity, cosmology, and quantum gravity. He has been Department Chair since 2007 and was Director of AARMS from 2008-2011.
	David Iron - Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of British Columbia in 2001. His primary area of research is pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Specifically, he studies the stability and dynamics of highly localized structures in these systems. In addition, he has collaborated with experimentalist in Chemistry and Biology.
	Jeannette Janssen - Director of AARMS, Professor in the department of Mathematics & Statistics at Dalhousie University. She is a graph theorist, using techniques from probability and combinatorial optimization in her research. Her current interests focus on the modelling of complex networks, such as the networks of contacts formed through social media. She is one of the project leaders of the MITACS project: Modelling and Mining of Networked Information Spaces (MoMiNIS). Jeannette obtained her PhD in 1993 from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and her first graduate degree (doctoraal diploma) in 1988 from the Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
	François Lalonde - Director of CRM, a mathematician and physicist by training, Francois Lalonde holds a Doctorat d'État (1985) from the Université de Paris-Sud Orsay in the field of differential topology. His fields of interests include symplectic topology, Hamiltonian dynamics and the study of infinite-dimensional groups of transformations. He is member of the Royal Society of Canada since 1997 and was a Killam Research Fellowship recipient in 2000-2002. He holds the Canada Research Chair in the field of Symplectic Geometry and Topology at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Université de Montréal. Plenary speaker at the First Canada-China congress in 1997, part of his works in collaboration with Dusa McDuff was presented in her plenary address at the ICM 1998 in Berlin. He was an invited speaker at the ICM 2006 in Madrid.
	Paul Muir - Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Saint Mary's University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1984 in Computer Science (Numerical Analysis). Dr. Muir's research is in the general area of numerical analysis; his specialties include the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, with emphasis on boundary value ordinary differential equations and Runge-Kutta methods, and the adaptive method-of-lines solution of partial differential equations with collocation methods.
	John Newhook - Associate Vice-President Research, Dalhousie University. He is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Resource Engineering and the Director of the Centre for Innovation in Infrastructure. He obtained a PhD in Civil Engineering from Dalhousie in 1997. His research interests are in the areas of structural health monitoring, bridge engineering and analysis, soil-structure interaction and modelling, and the use of advanced composite materials in infrastructure.
	Henrik Stryhn - Professor in Biostatistics, Department of Health Management, Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC), University of PEI. He received his PhD from the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark (now part of the University of Copenhagen) in 1994. A statistician by training, he has been working extensively with applications of statistics in agriculture and veterinary science. Dr. Stryhn emigrated from his native Denmark to Canada in 2001 to take up a position at AVC. His research interests include a broad range of methods in statistics and epidemiology, in particular models involving random effects and other latent variables.
	Yuan Yuan - Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She received her PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario in 2002. Her research interests include Applied Dynamical Systems, Functional Differential Equations and Applications.
	Xiaoqiang Zhao - Deputy Director of AARMS, University Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1990. His research interests are Applied Dynamical Systems, Nonlinear Differential Equations, and Mathematical Biology.
awaiting image	Ke Hua Zhou - New Brunswick Investment Management Corporation.