Department of Mathematics and Statistics

http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/
Faculty as of January 15, 2013

CHAIR

Hans Boden

ASSOCIATE CHAIRS

Manfred Kolster/Graduate Studies
David Lozinski/Undergraduate Studies

PROFESSORS

Stanley Alama/B.Sc. (Columbia), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Courant, N.Y.U.)
N. Balakrishnan/B.Sc., M.Sc. (Madras), Ph.D. (I.I.T., Kanpur)/Graduate Advisor, Statistics
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)
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)
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)
Gregory H. Moore/B.A. (California-Berkeley), M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D. (Toronto)
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

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)
Matheus Grasselli/B.Sc. (Sao Paolo), Ph.D. (King’s College, London)
Megumi Harada/A.B. (Harvard), Ph.D. (California-Berkeley)
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

David Lozinski/B.Math. (Waterloo), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Northwestern)
Chung Pang Mok/B.Sc. (Chinese University of Hong Kong), A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard)
Traian Pirvu/B.S. (University of Craiova), M.S., Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon)

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)
Christopher McLean/B.Sc. (McMaster), M.Sc. (Toronto), M.Sc. (McMaster)

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

1. The Department offers an Honours Mathematics and Statistics program, which, may be complemented with a Specialization in Mathematics, Statistics, or Origins Research and an Honours Actuarial and Financial Mathematics program. Combined Honours programs are available with Arts and Science, Biology, Computer Science, Economics, Philosophy, and Physics.  
2. Students considering graduate studies in Mathematics are encouraged to complete MATH 2XX3 , MATH 3A03 , MATH 3E03 , MATH 3F03 , MATH 3X03 , MATH 4A03  or register in the Mathematics Specialization. Students considering graduate studies in Statistics are encouraged to complete STATS 3A03 , STATS 3D03 , STATS 3F03* , STATS 3S03 , STATS 3U03  or register in the Statistics Specialization. Students considering a career as an actuary are encouraged to complete MATH 2FM3 , MATH 3FM3 , MATH 4FM3 , STATS 2D03 , STATS 2MB3 , STATS 3A03 , STATS 3D03 , STATS 3G03 , STATS 3H03* , STATS 4A03*  or register in Honours Actuarial and Financial Mathematics. 
3. 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

• Mathematical Science (B.Sc.)

• Honours Actuarial and Financial Mathematics (B.Sc.)
• Honours Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Co-op (B.Sc.)
• Honours Mathematics and Computer Science (B.Sc.)
• Honours Mathematics and Physics (B.Sc.)
• Honours Mathematics and Statistics (B.Sc.)
• Honours Mathematics and Statistics - Mathematics Specialization (B.Sc.)
• Honours Mathematics and Statistics - Mathematics Specialization Co-op (B.Sc.)
• Honours Mathematics and Statistics - Origins Research Specialization (B.Sc.)
• Honours Mathematics and Statistics - Statistics Specialization (B.Sc.)
• Honours Mathematics and Statistics - Statistics Specialization Co-op (B.Sc.)
• Honours Mathematics and Statistics Co-op (B.Sc.)

• Minor in Mathematics
• Minor in Mathematics and Statistics
• Minor in Statistics