Rylo Ashmore received her PhD from Memorial University in 2025 for their work on the novel pursuit-evasion game of Cat Herding. From the mathematics of juggling to puzzles, her interest in mathematics was cultivated from a young age. Outside of her thesis, she has done novel work with the research group at Memorial University on combinatorial games, as well as work with the LogicA lab in Rennes combining graph theory with computational automata. After graduating she has started working in industry where she is able to apply the mathematical principles she picked up during her PhD thesis as well as the computer science skills honed during her master’s thesis.

Wensha Zhang recently completed her PhD in Statistics at Dalhousie University, supervised by Dr. Toby Kenney and Dr. Lam Si Tung Ho. Her doctoral research, “Evolutionary Shift Detection with Variable Selection Methods,” developed new statistical tools—ELPASO, ShiVa, and ShiVa-ME—for identifying shifts in phenotypic evolution under Ornstein–Uhlenbeck models, including advances for variance-shift detection and measurement-error modeling. Her work integrates modern variable-selection techniques into phylogenetic comparative methods and has produced open-source R packages that improve the analysis of trait evolution. Wensha is currently a postdoctoral biostatistician fellow with the Canadian Cancer Trials Group at Queen’s University, where she develops statistical models for oncology clinical trials.

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Alfie Davies is a PhD student at Memorial University of Newfoundland, co-supervised by Danny Dyer and Rebecca Milley. He primarily studies how to lose games; he focusses on partizan misère theory within the field of Combinatorial Game Theory. His broader research interests include areas of graph theory and the interplay between algebraic structures and combinatorial games.

Thiago Holleben is a PhD student at Dalhousie University under the supervision of Sara Faridi. He began his studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he completed his undergraduate degree and obtained a master’s degree. His research interests lie at the intersection of algebra, combinatorics, and topology. He focuses on algebraic methods for proving positivity results in combinatorics and on applying combinatorial techniques to problems in commutative algebra.

Tomasz Maciosowski is a Master’s student at Memorial University of Newfoundland supervised by Danny Dyer, Svenja Huntemann, and Rebecca Milley, studying Combinatorial Game Theory, Misère Games, and P-Free Games. Additional interests include formalization of mathematics, dependent type theory, and functional programming

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If you wish to apply please access our application form by using the link at the bottom of this message and filling in the form.  It is also required that your supervisor should send a brief email to AARMS Executive Administrator David Langstroth ([email protected]) confirming that they have discussed with you your application to attend an SLMath summer school and that they support your application as being relevant to your studies/research.

Summer school flyer: https://aarms.math.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/SLMath_Flyer_-_Summer_Graduate_Schools_2026-1.pdf

Please only apply if you are serious about attending.  Although you are permitted to cancel your attendance later, we ask that you notify AARMS as soon as possible if you intend to cancel, as it may be possible to offer the place to another student.

The deadline for receiving applications and supporting emails is November 26, 2025. 

Link for applications: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJ2MNaHCSAP4v-WuWIPyBIYAU7jej-LUf8_YrreDliYl243A/viewform

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Overview:

This will be an inspiring week of learning new math from influential women and gender-diverse mathematicians, and collaborating with peers from across the country!  You will connect professionally and socially, build networks among your academic peers and with the instructors. We will offer a challenging academic program, as well as professional development sessions and panel discussions with a focus on how to meet challenges faced by women and other underrepresented gender identities in the mathematical sciences.

Details:

Location: University of British Columbia—Okanagan, Kelowna, BCDates: May 17 – 22, 2026 Topics: Combinatorics and Graph Theory, highlighting algebraic methods

Eligibility:

This workshop is open to undergraduates in a math or related science program at a Canadian university who have completed at least two years of university-level math education at the time of application and identify as a woman or as another underrepresented gender identity.
Students must apply to participate in this workshop; we have space for approximately 35 students. Consideration will be given to students from multiple equity-seeking groups or with limited access to such programs. A reference letter from a professor or instructor is required.
Application:Students are asked to complete this application form and have one letter of reference from a professor or instructor submitted to this reference form. We also ask that you submit transcripts (these are only used to understand the academic background of participants). 
The deadline to apply is Dec. 15.

Funding:

Accommodations and food will be provided to all workshop participants. We have some travel support available for participants, but we are asking participants to try to find matching funding. You can ask the head of your department or the undergraduate co-ordinator at your university if there is funding available for undergraduate students to attend conferences. You can also ask a professor (perhaps a professor that told you about this workshop) or a summer research supervisor, or your math club or student’s union if there is funding available.

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In 2025 AARMS will award an amount of up to $50,000/year for two years to successful applications. For further details visit: Collaborative Research Groups.

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AARMS Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) are for undergraduate students enrolled at universities in Atlantic Canada. They are meant to nurture the interest and potential for a research career in the mathematical sciences and to encourage further study at the graduate level by providing research experience.

For full details please visit our USRA page.

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FUSRP is a great opportunity for undergraduate students to experience the richness of mathematical research, working in a collaborative environment with an international cohort of fellow students. The program lasts for eight weeks, and there are no restrictions on citizenship.

The link to the application form and detailed information on the program can be found on our FUSRP 2025 webpage: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/25-26/2025-FUSRP.

Deadline: Monday, January 27th, 2025, 1:00 PM (EST).

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Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems

James Watmough, University of New Brunswick

Many of the processes studied in science, engineering and economics are described by nonlinear differential equations. This course introduces qualitative methods to find essential information about the solutions of nonlinear equations without necessarily attempting to find the solution completely. The intent for this term is to cover the theorems on existence, uniqueness, stability, stable and centre manifolds, and dependence on parameters for systems on nonlinear differential equations.  Examples will be taken mainly from Mathematical Ecology, Epidemiology, and Immunology.

Further details here

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Dr. Jonathan Babyn received his PhD from Dalhousie University in November 2023, under the supervision of Dr. Joanna Mills Flemming, for a thesis entitled, “Counting all the Imaginary Fish and More”.

 Avoiding overexploitation of marine resources requires being able to accurately estimate the size and health of a population. Dr. Babyn’s thesis presents methods that improve upon existing fisheries stock assessment methods. Having an estimate of the ages of fish in a sample can simplify stock assessment model development and allow more insight into stock structure. It first discusses a spatial Age Length Key (ALK) model that accommodates physical barriers to fish movement such as islands or bays. By incorporating spatial information and accounting for barriers in the construction of ALKs more accurate estimates of age can be obtained. Dr. Babyn’s thesis next focuses on effective population size, a concept used by conservationists and geneticists to summarize the overall genetic health of a population by giving the size of the population under the “ideal” Wright-Fisher model. It shows how using Close-kin mark recapture (CKMR) alone it is possible to estimate the effective population size as well as the variance in number of offspring enabling new insights into populations. Finally, it examines the applicability of CKMR to a population similar to the Sable Island grey seal colony through individual based simulation.

Dr. Marcello Lanfranchi received his PhD from Dalhousie University in October 2024 under the supervision of Dr. Geoffrey Crutwell and Dr. Dorette Pronk for a thesis entitled “A tangent category approach to operadic geometry”.

In many modern physics theories, such as general relativity, classical mechanics, or Yang-Mills theories, differential geometry plays a crucial role in describing some fundamental structures of these theories, such as connections, curvature, or torsion. Tangent category theory aims to provide a simple categorical framework to axiomatize these key structures in a model-independent fashion. In Lanfranchi’s thesis, the language of tangent category theory is employed in a new context: operadic geometry. This provides the first example of a model for non-commutative geometry fully described via a tangent category. This opens a new approach to “quantizing” the geometric structures at the core of modern physics.

Congratulations to both.  Announcements of research presentations to be given by each of the winners will be circulated in the near future.

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Thiago Holleben is a PhD student at Dalhousie University under the supervision of Sara Faridi. He began his studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he completed his undergraduate degree and obtained a master’s degree. His research interests lie at the intersection of algebra, combinatorics, and topology. He focuses on algebraic methods for proving positivity results in combinatorics and on applying combinatorial techniques to problems in commutative algebra.

Logan  Pipes is a Master’s student at Memorial University supervised by Drs. Danny Dyer and Melissa Huggan. He studies pursuit/evasion problems on graphs; in particular the game of cops and robbers and its variants. He is also interested in graph theory more generally, and has previous research experience in quantum information theory and matrix algebra. Before attending Memorial University Logan graduated from Mount Allison University with first class honours in his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics. He also serves as a general member on the CMS Student Committee.

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