Tim Alderson is currently the Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Brunswick’s Saint John campus. Dr. Alderson received his PhD in Pure Mathematics in 2002 from the University of Western Ontario, and has been a faculty member at UNB Saint John. Dr. Alderson has served as an Atlantic Director for the Canadian Mathematical Society, and is a fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications. His research interests are in coding theory, and finite geometries.

Soodabeh Asadi Dezaki is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Prince Edward Island. She received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Shahrekord University and has held postdoctoral and teaching positions at Western University, the University of Bremen, Sharif University of Technology, and FHNW Switzerland. Her research focuses on operations research and optimization with applications in data science, energy systems, and healthcare.

Dr. Cameron received his BSc in Mathematics from the University of Prince Edward Island (2013) and his MSc (2014) and PhD (2019) from Dalhousie University. He then held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Guelph and Wilfrid Laurier University. He then worked for two years as an assistant professor at The King’s University before returning to Atlantic Canada to join the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences as an assistant professor in 2023. His research interests are in structural and algorithmic graph theory.

Svenja Huntemann received her BSc from the University of New Brunswick Saint John and MSc and PhD from Dalhousie University. She was the director of Nova Scotia Math Circles and the Student Director on the board of the Canadian Mathematical Society during her graduate studies. After her PhD, she has taught at Mount Allison University, held an NSERC PDF at Carleton University, and was an Assistant Professor at Concordia University of Edmonton. She is now a faculty member at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her research is primarily in combinatorial game theory, but also in pursuit-evasion games, combinatorial commutative algebra, and related questions in other areas of combinatorics.

Andrew Irwin is the Director of AARMS. He has a PhD in Mathematics from Queen’s University (Kingston) and post-doctorial experience at Rutgers University. He developed his applied mathematics teaching and research program at Mount Allison University for more than a decade. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Dalhousie University. His research interests focus on statistical and mathematical models in biological oceanography, spanning temporal scales from days to centuries and spatial scales from the flask to the ocean basin.

Charles L. B. Macdonald was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He obtained a B.Sc.(Honours) in 1994 and a Ph.D. in 1998 under the supervision of Prof. Neil Burford at Dalhousie University. From 1998-2001, Macdonald was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin with Prof. Alan H. Cowley, FRS. In 2001, he joined the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Windsor as an Assistant Professor and subsequently rose through the ranks to become a Professor of Chemistry. He served in significant administrative roles during his time at the University of Windsor: most notably, Macdonald served as an Associate Dean of Science, as the Acting Dean of Science from 2015-2016, and as the Head of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. From 2018-2021, he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Science and was a Professor of Chemistry at Carleton University. In 2021, Macdonald was appointed as the Dean of the Faculty of Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He has served on numerous boards including as the Chair of Science Atlantic. Macdonald is an award-winning researcher and author of more than 130 papers whose areas of scientific interest include: main group synthetic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, crystallography, and computational/theoretical chemistry.