Scientific Review Panel

Dr. Heinz Bauschke is a Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia, Kelowna campus. His research interests lie in optimization and nonlinear analysis. Dr. Bauschke has authored more than 150 refereed publications. According to Mathematical Reviews, his book "Convex Analysis and Monotone Operator Theory in Hilbert Spaces", co-authored with Dr. Patrick Combettes, is - in terms of citations - in the top 10 out of more than 18,000 books published since 2010. Dr. Bauschke has also collaborated with engineers from industry, published in IEEE journals, and received two patents.

Dr. Anthony Bonato is an expert in graph theory and network science. He authored over 140 papers with over 120 co-authors. He is the author of five books, with the most recent one  An Invitation to Pursuit-Evasion Games and Graph Theory published by the AMS in 2022. Bonato is currently a full Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Toronto Metropolitan University. Bonato has a passion for writing and communicating mathematics, and his words were published in Salon, The Conversation, and Maclean’s.

Monica G. Cojocaru is a Professor of Mathematics in the Mathematics & Statistics Department at the University of Guelph. She completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Bucharest (Romania) and her Ph.D. in Mathematics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. She held a NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre des Recherches Mathematiques (CRM) and held several visiting positions at the CRM, the Fields Institute, Harvard University, Northwestern University and at University of Brescia between (2003 - 2011). Most recently (2017-2019) she held a Senior Visiting Research Fellowship at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, USA. She was awarded one of two yearly Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair positions in 2010 in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Fulbright Eco-leadership Award in 2014. She is an Affiliate Faculty at the Waterloo Institute of Complexity and Innovation and at the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.  Dr. Cojocaru's research interest are in optimization and game theory, complex dynamics and population health.

Susan M. Cooper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manitoba and is currently an appointed Adjunct (Faculty of Graduate Studies) in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie University.   She received her BSc from the University of Regina, and her MSc and PhD from Queen's University.  Dr. Cooper's research is motivated by the behaviour of systems of polynomial equations, with interweaving connections from Combinatorics, Geometry, and Coding Theory.  She is interested in studying algebraic structures (such as regular and symbolic powers of homogeneous ideals) via invariants of objects living in geometric and combinatorial settings.  Dr. Cooper's research is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and an AARMS Collaborative Research Grant.  She currently serves her community as Department Associate Head - Undergraduate Studies and as Chair of the Research Committee of the Canadian Mathematical Society.  Her efforts have been acknowledged with a University of Manitoba Merit Award.

Galia Dafni is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Concordia University. She received her PhD from Princeton University in 1993, and held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern University, before moving to Montreal in 1998. Her research is in the area of harmonic analysis and function spaces. She has extensive experience as a mentor of young mathematicians at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral level, and has served as both Undergraduate Program Director and Graduate Program Director of her department, as well as on the Women in Mathematics Committee, the Board of Directors,  the Publications Committee and the International Affairs Committee of the Canadian Mathematical Society.  She was Deputy Director in charge of Publications, Communications and Scientific Activities of the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and is currently Managing Editor of CRM publications.

Ailana Fraser is Professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia. She received her BSc from the University of Toronto and her PhD in Mathematics from Stanford University. She was a Courant Instructor at the Courant Institute (NYU) and a Tamarkin Assistant Professor at Brown University before joining the faculty at the University of British Columbia in 2002. Her research interests include differential geometry and geometric analysis. She was awarded the 2012 Krieger Nelson Prize and the 2021 Cathleen Synge Morawetz Prize from the Canadian Mathematical Society, and is a Fellow of the AMS and CMS. She serves on several editorial boards, including Canadian Journal of Mathematics, Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, and Transactions and Memoirs of the AMS.

Alexey Kuznetsov - bio TBA

Jorma Louko is a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. His PhD is from the University of Helsinki, 1988. His current research is on curved spacetime quantum fields and their simulation in condensed matter analogue spacetime systems.

He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Alberta, Syracuse University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Maryland at College Park, and the Albert-Einstein Institute at Golm, Germany. He was an Affiliate at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, 2015-2020. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of Classical and Quantum Gravity and as the Chair of the International Society for Relativistic Quantum Information.

Jenna Rajchgot is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University. Prior to moving to McMaster in 2020, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. She also spent time as a Postdoc at the University of Michigan and a Research Member at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. She received her BScH from Queen's University and PhD from Cornell University.  Dr. Rajchgot works at the intersection of algebraic geometry, combinatorics, and commutative algebra. She is particularly interested in algebro-geometric and combinatorial properties of algebraic varieties which have large groups of symmetries (eg. Schubert varieties, quiver loci, symmetric varieties), as well as in techniques which are useful in their study.

Franco Saliola - bio TBA

Dr. Gregory G. Smith is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University.  He received his BScH from the Queen's University, his MA in Mathematics from Brandeis University, and his PhD in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.  He was an AssistantProfessor at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a PostDoctoral Fellow at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute before joining the faculty at Queen's University in 2004.  His research interests include algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, and computational algebra. He was awarded the André-Aisenstadt Prize from the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) in 2007 and Coxeter-James Prize from the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) in 2012.  He also serves on editorial boards such as the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra and the Journal for Software for Algebra and Geometry.

Xu (Sunny) Wang is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada). Sunny completed her Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Waterloo. Sunny’s research lies at the intersection of modern statistical learning and "traditional" statistical ideas. Currently she is focusing on two research directions: (1) Develop efficient statistical models and algorithms for describing, analyzing and interpreting human behaviour data, such as email communication, emergency calls etc. (2) Develop automated statistical learning tools for analyzing high dimensional multimodal data. Sunny is also actively involved in many industrial projects, which provide opportunities for students to gain first hands experience. Furthermore, Sunny is a dedicated educator, and has received several teaching awards from Laurier and StFX. She is a strong advocate for Statistical Education and started many initiatives to promote Statistics in general public in Canada as the President of Statistical Education Section of Statistical Society of Canada (SSC).

Geoff Wild is a Professor of Mathematics at Western University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Biology from Trent University and his doctorate in Mathematics from Queen's University. He uses dynamical systems, stochastic processes, and game theoretic models to address questions in population biology, ecology, and organic evolution. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada supports his research, and, together, the Canadian Applied & Industrial Mathematics Society and the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences awarded him their 2014 Early Career Prize. Geoff has been honoured to serve his community as Department Chair, University Senator, Associate Dean, and Associate Editor for different journals.