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This list consists of the name, thesis title and supervisor of Pure Math PhD recipients for the past several years.
2023
Eric Boulter
- Title: Vector Bundles on Non-Kähler Elliptic Surfaces
- Supervisor: Ruxandra Moraru
Jacob Campbell
- Title: Finistary approximations of free probability, involving combinatorial respresentation theory
- Supervisor: Alexandru Nica
Padraig Daly
- Title: Quantum superchannels on the space of quantum channels
- Supervisors: Michael Brannan, David Kribs
Andrej Vukovic
- Title: Divisibility of Discriminants of Homogeneous Polynomials
- Supervisors: Jerry Wang, David McKinnon
John Sawatzky
- Title: Mind the GAP: Amenability Constants and Arens Regularity of Fourier Algebras
- Supervisors: Brian Forrest, Matthew Wiersma
Luke MacLean
- Title: Notions of Complexity Within Computable Structure Theory
- Supervisor: Barbara Csima
2022
Benjamin Anderson-Sackaney
- Title: On Amenability Properties and Coideals of Quantum Groups
- Supervisor: Nico Spronk and Michael Brannan
Adam Humeniuk
- Title: Dilation methods in semigroup dynamics and noncommutative convexity
- Supervisor: Kenneth Davidson and Matthew Kennedy
Nicholas Manor
- Title: Exactness and Noncommutative Convexity
- Supervisor: Matthew Kennedy and Nico Spronk
Daniel Perales Anaya
- Title: Brands of cumulants in non-commutative probability, and relations between them
- Supervisor: Alexandru Nica
Dan Ursu
- Title: Tracial and ideal structure of crossed products and related constructions
- Supervisor: Matthew Kennedy
2021
Seda Gulizar Albayrak
- Title: Sparse Automatic Sets
- Supervisor: Jason Bell
Christopher Hawthorne
- Title: A guide to F-automatic sets
- Supervisor: Rahim Moosa
Brett Nasserden
- Title: Applications of the minimal modelprogram in arithmetic dynamics
- Supervisor: Matthew Satriano
Patrick Naylor
- Title: Trisections of non-orientable 4-manifolds
- Supervisor: Doug Park
Ragini Singhal
- Title: Deformation theory of nearly G₂-structures and nearly G₂ instantons
- Supervisors: Benoit Charbonneau and Spiro Karigiannis
Aasaimani Thamizhazhagan
- Title: On the Structure of Invertible Elements in Certain Fourier-Stieltjes Algebras
- Supervisors: Nico Spronk and Brian Forrest
2020
Zachary Cramer
- Title: Compressible Matrix Algebras and the Distance from Projections to Nilpotents
- Supervisor: Laurent Marcoux
Sylvie Davies
- Title: Algebraic Approaches to State Complexity of Regular Operations
- Supervisors: Jason Bell and Janusz Brzozowski
Shubham Dwivedi
- Title: Topics in G2 geometry and geometric flows
- Supervisor: Spiro Karigiannis
Ertan Elma
- Title: Some Problems in Multiplicative and Additive Number Theory
- Supervisor: Yu-Ru Liu and Wentang Kuo
Ehsaan Hossain
- Title: Recurrence in Algebraic Dynamics
- Supervisor: Jason Bell
Hongdi Huang
- Title: On Hopf Ore Extensions and Zariski Cancellation Problems
- Supervisor: Jason Bell
Se-Jin Kim
- Title: Applications of Operator Systems in Dynamics, Correlation Sets, and Quantum Graphs
- Supervisor: Kenneth Davidson & Matthew Kennedy
Zsolt Tanko
- Title: Coefficient spaces arising from locally compact groups
- Supervisor: Brian Forrest & Matthew Kennedy
2019
Diana Castaneda Santos
- Title: Rational approximations on smooth rational surfaces
- Supervisor: David McKinnon
Michael Deveau
- Title: Computability Theory and Some Applications
- Supervisor: Barbara Csima
Samuel Harris
- Title: Unitary Correlation Sets and their Applications
- Supervisor: Vern Paulsen
Ruizhang Jin
- Title: The logarithmic derivative and model-theoretic analysability in the differentially closed fields
- Supervisor: Rahim Moosa
Mohammad Mahmoud
- Title: Degrees of Categoricity and the Isomorphism Problem
- Supervisor: Barbara Csima
Anton Mosunov
- Title: Generalizations of the Gap Principle and the Thue-Siegel Principle, with Applications to Diophantine Equations
- Supervisor: Cameron Stewart
Nickolas Rollick
- Title: Approximation Constants for Closed Subschemes of Projective Varieties
- Supervisor: David McKinnon
Xu Robert Yang
- Title: Sidon and Kronecker-like sets in compact abelian groups
- Supervisor: Kathryn Hare
2018
Chadi Hamzo
- Title: Classification of Finitely Generated Operator Systems
- Supervisor: M. Kennedy
Jonathan Herman
- Title: Weak Momentum Maps in Multisympletic Geometry
- Supervisor: Spiro Karigiannis and Shengda Hu
Boyu Li
- Title: Regular Dilation on Semigroups
- Supervisor: Kenneth Davidson
Satish Pandey
- Title: Symmetrically-Normed Ideals and Characterization of Absolutely Norming Operators
- Supervisor: Vern Paulsen
Jitendra Prakash
- Title: Tsirelson's problems and entanglement breaking rank
- Supervisor: Vern Paulsen
John J. C. Saunders
- Title: Problems in Combinatorial and Analytic Number Theory
- Supervisor: Kevin Hare and Yu-Ru Liu
Renzhi Song
- Title: Series-Parallel Posets and Polymorphisms
- Supervisor: Ross Willard
2017
Adam Dor On
- Title: Techniques in operator algebras: classification, dilation and non-commutative boundary theory
- Supervisor: K. Davidson
Tyrone Ghaswala
- Title: The Liftable Mapping Class Group
- Supervisors: D. McKinnon and D. Park
Blake Madill
- Title: Contributions to the Theory of Radicals for Noncommutative Rings
- Supervisor: J. Bell
Ian Payne
- Title: 2-Semilattices: Residual Properties and Applications to the Constraint Satisfaction Problem
- Supervisor: R. Willard
Jaspar Wiart
- Title: Semicrossed Products, Dilations, and Jacobson Radicals
- Supervisor: K. Davidson
2016
Michael Hartz
- Title: Nevanlinna-Pick spaces and dilations
- Supervisor: K. Davidson
Matthew Wiersma
- Title: Exotic Group C*-algebras, Tensor Products, and Related Constructions
- Supervisors: B. Forrest and N. Spronk
Stanley Yao Xiao
- Title: Some Results on Binary Forms and Counting Rational Points on Algebraic Varieties
- Supervisor: C. Stewart
2015
Robert Garbary
- Title: On Local Positivity of Line Bundles on Algebraic Surfaces
- Supervisor: D. McKinnon
Alejandra Vicente Colmenares
- Title: Semistable Rank 2 co-Higgs Bundles Over Hirzebruch Surfaces
- Supervisor: R. Moraru
Shuntaro Yamagishi
- Title: Some Additive Results in F_q[t]
- Supervisor: Y-R. Liu