I have been thrilled to be involved in the training of a number of highly-qualified research personnel in mathematics and mathematical physics, here in Saskatchewan and prior.

My research group at the University of Saskatchewan consists of:

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Eric Boulter (quanTA Postdoctoral Fellow), September 2023 — present
  • Mohsen Karkheiran (UAlberta / USask / UWaterloo Postdoctoral Fellow, co-supervised with C. Doran and R. Moraru), January 2023 — present
  • Matthew Rupert (PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, co-supervised with A. Weekes and C. Wendlandt), July 2021 — present
  • Kazuki Ikeda (PIMS CRG Postdoctoral Fellow, co-supervised with J. Maciejko), October 2021 — September 2022
  • Shi-Hao Li (quanTA Postdoctoral Fellow, co-supervised with J. Szmigielski), April 2021 — September 2022
  • Alessandro Malusà (PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow), August 2018 — July 2020

PhD Students

  • Ahmed Mahmoud (University of Saskatchewan Graduate Teaching Fellowship), January 2024 — present
  • Mahmud Azam (University of Saskatchewan Dean's Scholar and NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship D), September 2022 — present
  • Jaclyn Porter (co-supervised with L. Bradford and K. Coates), September 2022 — present
  • Edward Utama (NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship M, co-supervised with J. Szmigielski), September 2022 — present
  • Matthew Koban (based at University of Toronto, co-supervised with L. Jeffrey), September 2022 — present
  • Emily Patterson (NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship D, based at University of Toronto, co-supervised with L. Jeffrey), September 2021 — present
  • Sheldon Miller, September 2021 — present
  • Davood Nejaty (based at University of Melbourne, co-supervised with G. Zhao and Y. Yang), January 2021 — present
  • Kuntal Banerjee (University of Saskatchewan Graduate Teaching Fellowship), September 2020 — April 2024 (Complete), Thesis: Geometry of the Hitchin Morphism and Spectral Correspondences
  • Christopher Mahadeo (University of Saskatchewan Teacher-Scholar Doctoral Fellow), September 2017 — July 2023 (Complete), Thesis: Twisted Higgs Bundles, Topological Recursion, and Quantum Curves

MSc Students

Undergraduate Researchers

  • Thomas Purdy (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2023 — Spring 2024, Thesis: On Constructing the Ordinals and the Surreals 
  • Kenzie Taylor (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2023 — Spring 2024, Thesis: Statistics in Quantum Computing, winner of Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Interdisciplinary)
  • Jason Main (quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2023
  • Riley Rawn (quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2023
  • Mykya Shvets (NSERC USRA Student), Summer 2023
  • Graeme Dyck (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2022 — Spring 2023, Thesis: Algebra, Music, and Interpretation, winner of Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Interdisciplinary)
  • Aaron San Jose (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2022 — Spring 2023, Thesis: Some Observations About the Complex Projective Line and the Topology of Surfaces, winner of Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Communication)
  • Keenan Nystrom (quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2022
  • Tarah Teixeira (NSERC USRA Student and Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis), Summer 2022 — Summer 2023, Thesis: Quantum Penny Flip, winner of Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Mathematics)
  • Kohlton Booth (Computer Science Honours Thesis), Fall 2021 — Spring 2022, Thesis: Solving a Multi Objective Markov Decision Process Using a Differentiable Scalarization Function
  • Jeremy Lee (Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis), Fall 2021 — Winter 2022
  • Vyom Patel (Mathematics Honours Thesis and quanTA USRA Student), Fall 2021 — Summer 2023, Thesis: Data-Driven Dynamical Systems, winner of Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Interdisciplinary) for 2022
  • Mahmud Azam (Mathematics Honours Thesis and NSERC USRA Student), Fall 2020 — Summer 2021, Thesis: Quantum Information through Topological Quantum Field Theories, winner of Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Mathematics), Earl of Bessborough Prize, and Haslam Medal for 2021
  • Elliot Kienzle (quanTA USRA Student, visiting from University of Maryland), Summer 2021
  • Elizabeth Reid (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2020 — Spring 2021, Thesis: The Mathematics of Singing: An Analysis of Current Mathematical Models of the Singing Voice, winner of Math & Stats Thesis Prize (Interdisciplinary) for 2021
  • Alan Cook (quanTA USRA Student and Mathematics Honours Thesis), Summer 2020 — Spring 2021
  • Edward Utama (NSERC USRA Student and Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis), Summer 2020 — Spring 2021, Thesis: Majorana Fermions and 1D Fermionic Chains
  • Travis Black (quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2020
  • Dominic George (University USRA / quanTA USRA Student and Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis), Summer 2020 — Spring 2022, Thesis: Approximating Closed Time-Like Curves through First Integrals
  • Max Wang (Mathematics Honours Thesis), Fall 2019 — Spring 2020, Thesis: Burnside's Lemma and Its Generalizations
  • Robert Cornea (Mathematical Physics Honours Thesis and quanTA USRA Student), Fall 2019 — Summer 2021, Thesis: Asymptotics of the Moduli Space of Higgs bundles
  • Emily Carrick (Department USRA Student, visiting from McGill University), Summer 2019
  • Matthew Koban (NSERC USRA Student and Mathematics Honours Thesis), Summer 2019 — Spring 2020, Thesis: Operations on Quiver Varieties
  • Jacob Taylor (NSERC USRA Student and Mathematics Honours Thesis), Summer 2019 — Spring 2020, Thesis: The Aharonov-Bohm Effect and Its Connection to Isomonodromy Problems
  • Brennan Rodgers (quanTA USRA Student), Summer 2019
  • Kuntal Banerjee (SURI Exchange Student), Summer 2019
  • Pratik Kayal (SURI Exchange Student), Summer 2019
  • Brandon Gill (Department USRA Student), Summer 2019
  • Sandeep Yadav (SURI Exchange Student), Summer 2018
  • Nicole Zolkavich (NSERC USRA Student), Summer 2018 and 2019
  • Thomas Stanley (NSERC USRA Student), Summer 2018
  • Aidan Lindberg (University USRA Student), Summer 2017 and 2018
  • Peter Yuen (Department USRA Student), Summer 2017