banner

Research · Outreach · Community

 

Home News Events Poster Publications PDF Program CRG Program Distinguished Lecturers Summer School Outreach Links Contact Online Services

The AARMS Scientific Review Panel

Xiaoqiang Zhao, Chair - Deputy Director of AARMS and 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.
Yuri Bahturin - University Research Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Coordinator of the Atlantic Algebra Centre, and Chair of Higher Algebra at the faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University. His main occupation is research, supervising and teaching in algebra. He has published more than 100 books and papers, supervised 15 PhDs and more than 20 MSc students.
Michael Bennett - is professor and head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia, where he has been a faculty member since 2001, and from where he obtained his PhD in 1993. Previously, he held positions at the University of Waterloo, the University of Michigan, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Mathematical Society as Vice President (West) and currently serves on the board of the Number Theory Foundation. His main research interests are in Number Theory, where he has published extensively.
Chen Greif - is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, where he holds a faculty position since 2002. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in applied mathematics from Tel Aviv University, and obtained his PhD (applied mathematics) from UBC in 1998. Before joining UBC as a faculty member he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University (1998-2000) and a Senior Software Engineer at Parametic Technology Corporation (2000-2002). He is an Associate Editor with the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, and the Program Director of the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra. His main area of interest is scientific computing, and in particular numerical linear algebra.
Penny Haxell - is a professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, where she has been a faculty member since 1993. She received a BMath degree from Waterloo in 1988, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1993. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Mathematical Society, and as managing editor of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B. Her main interests are extremal combinatorics and graph theory.
Javad Mashreghi - is a Professor of Mathematics at Laval University. He obtained his bachelor degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, and his Ph.D. in pure mathematics from McGill University in 2001. He has served in the board of directors of the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) and Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM), and faculty Council of the Faculty of Science and Engineering of Laval University. He has published 4 books and his main interests are complex analysis and operator theory.
James A. Mingo - James A. Mingo was a student at Dalhousie University where he completed his PhD under the supervision of Peter Fillmore in 1982. He was a visiting assistant professor at Purdue University and UCLA, and a NSERC University Research Fellow at the University of Toronto. Since 1987 he has been at Queen's University and a professor there since 1997. He has served on various committees of the Canadian Mathematical Society including a term as Vice-President (Ontario) and Chair of the Finance Committee. His research interests concern operator algebras, free probability and random matrices. In particular the application of combinatorics to the study of the eigenvalue distribution of large random matrices.
Matthias Neufang - is a graduate of France's Université de Lille 1. He received a Mathematics PhD in 2000 from the Universität des Saarlandes for his thesis entitled "Abstract Harmonic Analysis and Module Homomorphisms on von Neumann Algebras". He has taught at the University of Alberta and Carleton University. His principal work involves functional analysis and harmonic analysis, investigating the links between abstract harmonic analysis and Banach and operator algebra theory. He is the author of over fifty research papers and has organized numerous research conferences and special sessions. Neufang served as Interim Deputy Director of the Fields Institute from January to June 2009. He also served as Director of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Carleton University. His service to the profession include the positions of member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Mathematical Society, as well as chair of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Pure Mathematics Grant Selection Committee.
Michael A. Newton - Professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, in the Departments of Statistics and of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, where he has worked since completing his PhD in Statistics at the University of Washington in 1991. He earned his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Statistics from Dalhousie University in 1986. Dr. Newton's research concerns the use of statistics in the biological sciences, especially inference problems in genomics and cancer biology. His service includes a term on the genome study section of the US National Institutes of Health, and a term as biological sciences editor of the Annals of Applied Statistics.
Mary Pugh - received a BA in pure mathematics from U.c. Berkeley in 1986, and MS and PhD degrees in mathematics from the University of chicago in 1988 and 1993, respectively. From 1993 to 1997, she was a post-doc at the Courant Institute and at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1997 to 2001, she was an assistant professor at The University of Pennsylvania. Since 2001, she has been an associate professor at the University of Toronto. Her research is largely on the modeling, analysis, and simulation of thin films of viscous liquids, with a broader interest in computational methods for partial differential equations.
Peter Russell - Peter Russell obtained his PH.D from UC Berkeley in 1966 under the direction of Maxwell Rosenlicht. After spending three years as a Benjamin Pierce Instructor at Harvard University he joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of McGill University. He retired from McGill in 2009. He served as chair of his Department from 1988 to 1994 and as director of the Institut des Sciences Mathematiques in 1995/96 and from 2000 to 2004. He was Vice President for Quebec of the CMS from 1991 to 1993 and a member of the nominating committee from 1993 to 1995. His research is in algebraic geometry, in particular affine algebraic geometry, a sub discipline on the border of algebra, algebraic geometry and topology. He also has an abiding interest in positive characteristic geometry.
Hugh Thomas - University of New Brunswick. Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Brunswick. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2000. His research interests are in algebraic combinatorics, representation theory, and algebraic geometry. He presently serves on the board of the Canadian Mathematical Society.
James Watmough - received his Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics in 1989 and his PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1997: both from the University of British Columbia. He held a postdoctoral position at Virgina Tech and a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Victoria. He is currently a Professor (Mathematics) at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. Dr. Watmough's research interests are in mathematical biology: specifically epidemiology and ecology.
Juncheng Wei - Chair Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD from University of Minnesota in 1994. After one year postdoc at SISSA, he moved to Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was the recipient of Croucher Senior Fellowship (2005) and Morningside Silver Medal (2010). He is included in ISIHighlyCited (2010). His main research interests are Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Concentration Phenomena and Blow Ups, and Mathematical Biology.
Xingfu Zou - Professor of applied mathematics at the University of Western Ontario. He received his Ph. D from York University in 1997. Before joining UWO in January 2004, he pursued postdoctoral studies at the University of Victoria (Jan. 1997-July 1998) and Georgia Institute of Technology (July-Dec 1998), and was a faculty at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Jan 1999-Dec. 2005). His research interests are in applied dynamical systems including theories of ODEs, PDEs and FDEs and applications to various problems arising from biology and other fields.