Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Program Offerings

http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/
Faculty as of January 15, 2015

CHAIR (ACTING)

Nicholas Kevlahan

ASSOCIATE CHAIRS

Patrick Speissegger/Graduate Studies
Miroslav Lovric/Undergraduate Studies

DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

N. Balakrishnan/B.Sc., M.Sc. (Madras), Ph.D. (I.I.T., Kanpur)/Graduate Advisor, Statistics

PROFESSORS

Stanley Alama/B.Sc. (Columbia), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Courant, N.Y.U.)
Hans U. Boden/B.S. (New Hampshire), Ph.D. (Brandeis)
Ben Bolker/B.S. (Yale), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Lia Bronsard/B.A. (Montreal), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Courant, NYU)
Walter Craig/A.B. (California-Berkeley), M.S., Ph.D. (Courant, N.Y.U.)/Senior Canada Research Chair, F.R.S.C.
David Earn/B.Sc., M.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Shui Feng/B.Sc., M.Sc. (Beijing Normal), Ph.D. (Carleton)
Jean-Pierre Gabardo/B.Sc. (Université de l’État a Mons), Ph.D. (Maryland)
Matheus Grasselli/B.Sc. (Sao Paolo), Ph.D. (King’s College, London)
Ian Hambleton/B.Sc., M.Sc. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Yale), Britton Professor of Mathematics
Bradd Hart/B.Math. (Waterloo), Ph.D. (McGill)
Deirdre Haskell/B.A. (Oxford), M.S., Ph.D. (Stanford)
Fred M. Hoppe/B.Sc. (Toronto), M.Sc. (Weizmann Institute of Science), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)
Thomas R. Hurd/B.Sc. (Queen’s), D.Phil. (Oxford)
Nicholas Kevlahan/B.Sc. (British Columbia), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Manfred Kolster/Dipl. (Hamburg), Dr. rer. nat. (Saarbrucken), Habil. (Munster)
Paul D. McNicholas/B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Trinity College, Dublin)
Miroslav Lovric/B.S. (Zagreb), M.S., Ph.D. (Ohio State), 3M Teaching Fellow
Maung Min-Oo/B.Sc. (Rangoon), Dipl. Math., Dr.rer.nat., Habil. (Bonn)
Andrew J. Nicas/B.Sc. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton)
Dmitry E. Pelinovsky/M.S. (Nizhny Novgorod State, Russia), Ph.D. (Monash)
Eric T. Sawyer/B.Sc., Ph.D. (McGill)/McKay Professor of Mathematics
Patrick Speissegger/M.Sc. (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Ph.D. (llinois-Urbana)/Canada Research Chair
Matthew A. Valeriote/B.Math. (Waterloo), Ph.D. (California-Berkeley)
Roman Viveros-Aguilera/B.A. (Veracruzana, Mexico), M.A. (National Politechnic Inst., Mexico), Ph.D. (Waterloo)
McKenzie Y.-K. Wang/A.B. (Princeton), Ph.D. (Stanford)
Gail S.K. Wolkowicz/B.Sc., M.Sc. (McGill), Ph.D. (Alberta)

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

Syed Ejaz Ahmed/M.Sc. (Guelph), Ph.D. (Carleton)
Kevin Vander Meulen/B.Sc. (Calvin College), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Queen’s)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Angelo Canty/B.Sc. (University College, Cork), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto)
Aaron Childs/B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (McMaster)
Megumi Harada/A.B. (Harvard), Ph.D. (California-Berkeley)
Traian Pirvu/B.S. (University of Craiova), M.S., Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon)
Bartosz Protas/M.Sc. (Warsaw University of Technology), Ph.D. (Warsaw University of Technology and Université de Paris)

ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Paul Sermer/B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto)

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Ryan Browne/B.Math., M.Math., Ph.D. (Waterloo)
David Lozinski/B.Math. (Waterloo), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Northwestern)

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Ian R.C. Buckley/B.Sc., Ph.D. (Imperial College, London)

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

Joseph Beyene/(Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics) B.Sc. (Addis Ababa), M.Sc. (Guelph), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Antoine Deza/(Computing and Software) M.Sc. (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées), Ph.D. (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Jonathan Dushoff/(Biology) B.A. (Pennsylvania), Ph.D. (Princeton)
Timothy Field/(Electrical and Computer Engineering) B.A. (Cambridge), D. Phil (Oxford)
Jemila S. Hamid/(Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics) B.Sc. (Addis Ababa), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Uppsala)
Jeffery I. Zucker/(Computing and Software) B.Sc. (Witwatersrand), Ph.D. (Stanford), L.E.L.

LECTURERS

Erin Clements/B.Sc. (McMaster), M.Sc. (McMaster)

Notes Applicable to all Programs Offered by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics

The Department offers an Honours Mathematics and Statistics program, which may be complemented with a Specialization in Mathematics or Statistics, and an Honours Actuarial and Financial Mathematics program. Combined Honours programs are available with Arts and Science, Biology, Computer Science, Economics, Philosophy, and Physics.
Students considering graduate studies in Mathematics are encouraged to complete MATH 2XX3 , 3A03 , 3E03 , 3F03 , 3X03 , 4A03 or register in the Mathematics Specialization. Students considering graduate studies in Statistics are encouraged to complete STATS 3A03 , 3D03 , 3F03 , 3S03 , 3U03 or register in the Statistics Specialization. Students considering a career as an actuary are encouraged to complete MATH 2FM3 , 3FM3 , 4FM3 , STATS 2D03 , 2MB3 , 3A03 , 3D03 , 3G03 , 3H03 , 4A03 or register in Honours Actuarial and Financial Mathematics.
Cooperative Education programs are available; see the requirements for Honours Mathematics and Statistics Co-op programs in this section of the Calendar. Admission to the co-op programs is in Level III.

Programs

Bachelor of Science (Honours)

Bachelor of Science

Mathematical Science (B.Sc.)

Minor