Sanjeev Seahra (Director of AARMS)

Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Brunswick (Fredericton)

Dr. Seahra obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Waterloo in 2003 and held NSERC and PPARC postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.  He is an affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and his research interests include general relativity, cosmology and quantum gravity.

Tim Alderson

Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of New Brunswick (Saint John)

Dr. Alderson received his PhD in Pure Mathematics in 2002 from the University of Western Ontario. Since 2000 he has been a faculty member at the University of New Brunswick 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.

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.

 

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.

Jie Xiao

University Research Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Memorial University

Dr. Xiao got his PhD degree from Peking University in 1992.  He was: a guest professor at Uppsala University & University of Zurich in 1998; an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at Technical University of Braunschweig from 1999-2000; a research assistant professor at Concordia University & University of Montreal from 2000-2002. Since 2002 he has been working at Memorial University as an assistant-associate-full professor except a visiting professorship at New York University & University at Albany from 2009-2010 while at Memorial he was awarded Dean of Science Distinguished Scholar Medal in 2009 & University Research Professorship in 2011. His research interests lie in geometric harmonic analysis & partial differential equations - meanwhile -  his professional services include:

  • Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Analysis and Geometry (2018-present);
  • Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Mathematical Bulletin (2014-2019);
  • Division Editor, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (2022-present).