Potential vignettes:
Francis Zwiers, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, U Vic – climate modelling
John Braun/David Martell, Statistics/Forestry, UWO/U of T – forest fire modelling
Boris Worm/Chris Fields/Joanna Flemming, Dalhousie – marine ecology
Shelley Bull, Mt Sinai/U of T – statistical genetics
Geoff Hinton, Computer Science, U of T – Artifical Intelligence, neural networks
Tom Salisbury, Math, York – mathematical finance.
Martin Barlow, Math, UBC – probability, math finance
Gerda de Vries, Math, U Alberta – mathematical biology – cells/cancer
James Watmough , Math, UNB – mathematical biology – social insects
Jason Brown, Math, Dalhousie -- math and music – recently featured on “More or Less”
BBC
Serpil Kocabiyik, Math, Memorial -- fluid dynamics, computational science
Leah Keshet, Math, UBC – mathematical biology, Alzheimers, diabetes, animal swarming
Bob Russell, Math, SFU -- PDEs
Barry Sanders, Institute for Quantum Information Science, U Calgary – quantum
networks, cryptography, photonic crystals (PIMS CRG)
Michael Mackey, Medicine, McGill – math biology, delay- differential or functional
differential equations, blood, systems dynamics (MITACS)
Leon Glass, Physiology, McGill – nonlinear dynamics, arrythmias (MITACS)
Babak Pourbohloul, Population Health, UBC -- math epi, infectious diseases
Anne Condon, Computer Science, UBC -- computational bioinformatics, design of
biomolecules
Bruce Reed, CS McGill – graph theory, combinatorics
Jim Arthur, U Toronto – Lie groups, automorphic forms, Langlands program
Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, U Alberta -- functional analysis
Andrew Granville, Math, McGill – number theory
Ram Murty, Queen's -- number theory, cryptography
Hugh Williams, Cryptography Institute, U Calgary – number theory, cryptography
Rob McCann, Math, U Toronto -- optimal transport on Riemannian fields has major
impact, all the way to Villani’s Fields medal
Robert Seiringer, Math, McGill -- mathematical physics
Dolph Schluter, Zoology, UBC – evolutionary ecology
Richard Baranuik, Rice U, Electrical Engineering -- applications of compressed sensing
(from Winnipeg originally)
Toru Ohira, Sony, Japan -- collaborates with people in Canada on emergent dynamics in
systems with noise/delay
John Wettlaufer, Geology/Geophysics/Physics, Yale -- modeling arctic sea ice
Raymond Pierrehumbert, UChicago, Geophysics -- nonlinear geophysical fluid dynamics
Nick Costanzino: somewhat recent grad from SFU Math, was a postdoc in US,
now Manager, Credit and Risk Management Analytics at Scotiabank
Tony Webb, Director, Analytics, FinCad, Vancouver -- Research in financial software,
hires a lot of math types
Ron Dembo, Zerofootprint
Dan Rosen, R2 Financial Technologies
David Rudd, Sigma Analysis
Darrell Duffie, Stanford Business School, advisor to US congress, considered candidate
for Nobel Prize in Economics, Canadian; plenary speaker at SSC Meeting 2010
Robert Roberts, President and CEO, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Russell Schachar, Senior Scientist, Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick
Children – neuro-psychiatry
James Drake, Head of Neurosurgery, Hospital for Sick Children – science and surgery of
hydrocephalus; runs clinical trials; CMM Fields
Frances Skinner, Neurosciences, Toronto Western Hospital – mathematical modelling,
computational neuroscience; CMM Fields
John Mighton, Math, U Toronto – Math Education: JUMP
Peter Nicholson, Inaugural President of Council of Canadian Academies, various policy
positions; PhD Operations Research
Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd College; Ph.D. Math., U. Alberta,
Danica McKellar, Hollywood actress, strong voice for women in math