 | Uri Ascher - The focus of Uri Ascher’s work is on the investigation and promotion of novel, efficient and reliable methods in scientific computation, particularly for approximation problems involving differential equations with constraints. Thus, he has been involved, in addition to generally investigating properties of numerical methods, also in writing general-purpose mathematical software; investigating parallel algorithms and optimization techniques; solving inverse problems involving differential equations; considering hybrid systems; and getting more specifically involved in particular application areas such as multibody systems simulation, virtual reality, robotics, data inversion in geophysics, 3D electromagnetic modeling, geometric integration methods for Hamiltonian differential equations, image reconstruction, 3D mesh denoising, cloth simulation and computational fluid dynamics. |
 | Eric Aubanel - Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. He received his PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from Queen's University in 1991. He leads the grid computing research group at UNB. His research interests include high performance parallel computing, scientific and grid computing. |
 | 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. |
 | Margaret Beattie - Professor and Obed Edmund Smith Chair in Mathematics at Mount Allison University. She earned her PhD from Queen's University in 1977 and her research area is ring theory, in particular the algebraic theory of Hopf algebras. She has also served as Dean of Science, Mount Allison University and VP Atlantic for the CMS. |
 | Richard Charron - Dr. Charron oversees sonar R&D activities at PanGeo Subsea Inc., including performance models, conceptual designs, system specifications, signal processing, data analysis and data visualization. The work involves constant exposure to subject areas which folks generally describe as computational sciences. Prior to joining PanGeo Subsea Inc, Dr. Charron held a similar position at Guigne International Limited and was Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Memorial University of Newfoundland. |
 | 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. |
 | Kenneth R. Davidson - Professor at the University of Waterloo, Fellow of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada, and a former E.W.R. Steacie Fellow and Killam Research Fellow. He was the Director of the Fields Institute for Research in theMathematical Sciences from 2001 to 2004. He is a leading expert in operator algebras and operator theory. |
 | Nassif Ghoussoub - obtained his Doctorat d'état in 1979 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France and is currently a Professor of Mathematics, a Distinguished University Scholar, and a Governor of the University of British Columbia. His academic distinctions include the Coxeter-James Prize (1990), a UBC Killam Senior Research Fellowship (1992), the Jeffrey-Williams Prize (2007). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1993, and was awarded a Doctorat Honoris Causa from the Université of Paris-Dauphine (2004). He currently serves on the Killam committee of the Canada Council (2007-2010). He was the founding Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and a co-founder of the MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence (Mathematics of Information Technology & Complex Systems) and is currently on its Board of Directors. He is the scientific director of the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) that he founded in 2003. |
 | 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. |
 | Lisa Jeffrey - is Professor of Mathematics at University of Toronto at
Scarborough. She obtained her D.Phil. in mathematics from Oxford
University in 1992 under the supervision of Michael Atiyah. She
held a tenure-track position in the Department of Mathematics at McGill
University beginning 1995 and earned tenure there in 1996.
She moved to her present position in Toronto in 1998. She was
E.W.R. Steacie Fellow (2004) and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada in 2007. Her interests are symplectic geometry and mathematical
physics. |
| awaiting image | Leah Keshet - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) |
 | Dan Kucerovsky - Full professor at the University of New Brunswick and Director of the Centre for Noncommutative Geometry and Topology. Dan is interested in operator algebras, which are noncommutative generalizations of an algebra of functions on a topological space, leading to the term noncommutative topology. He has also published in statistics, functional analysis, physics, and computer science. |
 | Peter Russell - Director, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM). 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. |
 | Franklin Mendivil - Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Acadia University. His mathematical interests lie mainly in fractals (both geometric and analytical questions) and in applied probability. He currently serves as a member of the Board of the Canadian Mathematical Society. |
 | Juris Steprans -
Juris Steprans is Professor of Mathematics at York University and is currently serving as Deputy Director of the Fields Institute. He obtained his BMath degree from the University of Waterloo in 1977 and completed his PhD thesis under the supervision of Franklin D. Tall at the University of Toronto in 1982. His research has focussed on the applications of set theory to other areas of mathematics, notably, group theory, topology, real analysis and the theory of Banach spaces. He has held visiting positions at various universities and institutions including Dartmouth College, the University of Warsaw, the Fields Institute, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Rutgers University. He has served in various capacities with the CMS and at NSERC. He was elected a Fellow of the Fields Institute in 2004. |
 | Catherine Sulem - Received a Doctorat d'Etat from the Université de Paris-Nord in 1983 and held a CNRS position at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris before coming to the University of Toronto in 1990. In 1998, she was awarded the Kriegel-Nelson prize by the Canadian Mathematical Society. She works in nonlinear partial differential equations arising in physics and is a co- author (with Pierre-Louis Sulem) of a monograph on “The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation: Self-Focusing and Wave Collapse” that appeared in 1999 in the Springer series, Applied Mathematical Sciences. She has been an Associate editor of the SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis since 2000. |
| awaiting image | Mary Williams - National Research Council. |
 | Jianhong Wu - Canada Research Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics at York University. He was the recipient of the 2008 Pionner award in Science and Technology, the 2003 CAIMS Research Prize, and he was the 2002 AARMS Distinguished Lecturer. His research interest includes infinite dimensional dynamical systems, nonlinear analysis, pattern recognition, neural networks, mathematical biology and epidemiology. He has been serving the Canadian and international mathematical community through memberships to NSERC Grant Selection Committee, EPSRC Peer Review College, Boards of Directors of CAIMS and MITACS, and Scientific Advisory Board of BIRS. |
