Andrew Irwin (Director of AARMS)
Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Dalhousie University
Andrew Irwin is the AARMS Director, appointment to start on July 1, 2024. He has a PhD in Mathematics from Queen’s University (Kingston) and post-doctoral 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.
Alexander Alvarez
Professor
School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences
University of Prince Edward Island
Dr Alvarez received his PhD in 2007 from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France. After postdoctoral and non-tenure-track positions at Ryerson University, he joined the University of Prince Edward Island in 2016. His research interests are in the areas of financial mathematics, stochastic processes and statistics.
Ivan Booth
Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Memorial University
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.
Sara Faridi
Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Dalhousie University
Professor Faridi's research interests are in Commutative Algebra and Combinatorial Algebra. She received her PhD degree in 2000 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She then has held postdoctoral and faculty positions at University of Ottawa, University of Quebec at Montreal and George Washington University. She has also been a visiting scholar at Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and MSRI. She serves as the Vice President - Atlantic Provinces, of the Canadian Mathematical Society.
Franklin Mendivil
Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Acadia University
Dr. Mendivil received his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Tech in 1996. He then had a postdoctoral position in Applied Math at Waterloo and then an NSF Industrial postdoc joint between Georgia Tech and Iterated Systems, Inc. Since 2000 he has been a faculty member at Acadia University. His research interests are mostly in fractal geometry and applied analysis.