Board of Directors

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.

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Ivan Booth earned his BSc in applied mathematics and physics from Memorial University in 1995 and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Waterloo in 2000. After a post-doc at the University of Alberta he returned home to Newfoundland in 2002 and has been a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics ever since. His research is in general relativity with a focus on black holes.

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.  

Travis Fridgen is currently Acting Dean of Science at Memorial University in St. John’s.

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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.

Prof. Theodore Kolokolnikov obtained his PhD from UBC in 2004. His research interests include pattern formation in PDEs,  dynamical systems, mathematical modelling, stochastic processes, multi-particle systems and computational graph theory. He has been at Dalhousie University since 2006.

Dalhousie Dean of Science. Bio to come.

Dr. David MaGee is the vice-president (research) at the University of New Brunswick. He received both his BSc in chemistry and his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from UNB. Dr. MaGee has been active with UNB in a faculty role since 1990, serving in many capacities, including assistant professor, associate professor, professor, chair of the department of chemistry, and dean of science, in addition to serving on numerous university committees.

Dr. Messinger received her BSc from the University of Prince Edward Island and her MSc and PhD from Dalhousie University.  After positions at the University of Montana and Toronto Metropolitan University (then Ryerson University), she joined Mount Allison University in 2010.  Her research interests are in graph theory.

Rebecca Milley is a Professor in the mathematics program at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University. She earned her PhD in mathematics from Dalhousie University in 2013, and her research area is Combinatorial Game Theory, with a focus on the algebra of misère play. She engages in the scholarship of teaching and learning and runs a variety of math outreach initiatives for local K-12 students.

Dane Sheppard is the Director of Technology for The Black Arcs, Inc. He manages Black Arcs’ research collaborations and guides internal development across topics including geospatial analysis, agent-based mobility modelling, synthetic populations, and automated data pipelines.

Dr Touikan received his PhD in 2009 from McGill University. Prior to joining UNB in 2018, he held postdoctoral positions at the Laboratoire CIRGET in Montreal, the Oxford Mathematical Institute, Aix-Marseille Université, and Carleton University in Ottawa. He then held a non-tenure-track position at The Stevens Institute of Technology in the U.S. His research is primarily in geometric group theory, studying various aspects of non-postively curved discrete groups.