Recent MMath graduates

2019 |2018 |2017 |2016 | 2015 

This list consists of the name, thesis title and supervisor of Pure Math MMath recipients for the past several years.

2019

Jason d'Eon

• Title: Applications of Information Geometry to Machine Learning
• Supervisor: Ruxandra Moraru

Jacob Campbell

• Title: Weingarten calculus for some classical groups and their quantum analogues
• Supervisor: Alexandru Nica

John Dykes

• Title: Vinogradov's Mean Value Theorem
• Supervisor: Yu-Ru Liu

Amanda Garcia

• Title: Random Walks on Finite Groups with Applications to Card Shuffling
• Supervisor: Ben Webster

Adina Goldberg

• Title: Synchronous nonlocal games in multiple quantum models
• Supervisor: Vern Paulsen

Luke MacLean

• Title: Sure it works in theory, but is it effective?
• Supervisor: Barbara Csima

Edward Poon

• Title: Representation Theory of the generalized symmetric group
• Supervisor: Ben Webster

Wilson Poulter

• Title: Zilber's Principle in Practice
• Supervisor: Rahim Moosa

Finlay Rankin

• Title: An Embedding theorem for small Abelian Categories
• Supervisor: Jason Bell

Hayley Reid

• Title: Monogenic Number Fields
• Supervisor: David McKinnon

Jeffrey Samuelson

• Title: A Modern Solution to the Problem of Counting Lines on the Cubic Surface in P³
• Supervisor: Matthew Satriano

Pawel Sarkowicz

• Title: Exact C^* -Algebras and the Kirchberg-Phillips Nuclear Embedding Theorem
• Supervisor: Laurent Marcoux

Charles Valero

• Title: Monopoles with Dirac-Type Singularities
• Supervisor: Benoit Charbonneau

Andrej Vukovic

• Title: Arithmetic Invariant Theory: An Overview
• Supervisor: Jerry Xiao Heng Wang

2018

Hussein Ahmad

• Title: Godel's 2nd Incompleteness Theorem and Fragments of Arithmetic
• Supervisor: R. Moosa

Benjamin Anderson-Sackaney

• Title: The Fourier-Stieltjes Algebra and Host's Idempotent Theorem
• Supervisors: N. Spronk and B. Forrest

Eric Boulter

• Title: Born Metrics on Compact Complex Surfaces
• Supervisor: R. Moraru

Kerry Cerqueira

• Title: A modern counterexample to the Von Neumann-Day conjecture
• Supervisors: B. Forrest & N. Spronk

Leah Duffett

• Title: Murasugi's proof of Tait's conjecture on the crossing number of proper alternating links
• Supervisor: D. Park

Joshua Hews

• Title: Bridge position and thin position of knots
• Supervisor: D. Park

Adam Humeniuk

• Title: Existence of the C*-envelope of an Operator System
• Supervisor: K. Davidson

Nicholas Manor

• Title: Entanglement Breaking Quantum Channels and the PPT-Squared Conjecture
• Supervisors: V. Paulsen and M. Kennedy

Jeremy Nicholson

• Title: The affine completeness and functional completeness of the ring Z_m
• Supervisor: R. Willard

Daniel Pepper

• Title: Basics of free stochastic integration
• Supervisors: B. Forrest and A. Nica

John Sawatzky

• Title: The Fourier Algebra of a Locally Compact Group
• Supervisors: N. Spronk and B. Forrest

David Urbanik

• Title: Abstract and Explicit Constructions of Jacobian Varieties
• Supervisors: M. Satriano and D. Jao

Dan Ursu

• Title: C* - simplicity of discrete groups
• Supervisor: M. Kennedy

Jake Zimmermann Simmons

• Title: Investigation of a locally finite and residually finite variety
• Supervisor: R. Willard

2017

Gulizar (Seda) Albayrak

• Title: Finite Automata and Algebraicity of Formal Power Series over Finite Fields
• Supervisor: J. Bell

Dylan Butson

• Title: Classical Field Theory in the BV formalism
• Supervisors: K. Costello and M. Satriano

Serina Camungol

• Title: Haar measure on locally compact groups and a fixed point theorem of Day
• Supervisors: N. Spronk and B. Forrest

Jessica Crawford-Brown

• Title: Understanding the One-Dimensional Representations of the Galois Group of the Algebraic Closure of the Rationals over the Rationals
• Supervisor: D. McKinnon

Brandon Doherty

• Title: An Introduction to Homotopy Type Theory
• Supervisor: D. Park

Parham Hamidi

• Title: Ring theoretic properties of Iwasawa algebras
• Supervisor: J. Bell

Christopher Hawthorne

• Title: Formal languages and the model theory of finitely generated free monoids
• Supervisor: R. Moosa

Kun-Hung (Rick) Hsueh

• Title: A Parallel Study of the Fock Space Approach to Classical and Free Brownian Motion
• Supervisor: A. Nica

Drew Johnstone

• Title: Setting a Non-Commutative Framework for Independance of Random Variables, with an eye Towards Free Probability
• Supervisor: A. Nica

Bahaa Khaddaj

• Title: Reduced C*-algebras of totally disconnected groups
• Supervisors: N. Spronk and M. Kennedy

Se-Jin Sam Kim

• Title: Strong Morita Equivalence and Imprimitivity Theorems
• Supervisor: K. Davidson

Justin Laverdure

• Title: The Laws of Finite Pointed Groups
• Supervisor: R. Willard

Anthony McCormick

• Title: Derived Geometry and the Integrability Problem for G-Structures
• Supervisor: S. Karigiannis

Patrick McIntyre

• Title: On the Relationship Between Concentration of Measure and the Isoperimetric Problem
• Supervisor: A. Nica

Kamyar Moshksar

• Title: On Asynchronous Interference Channels
• Supervisor: N. Spronk and B. Forrest

2016

Sylvie Davies

• Title: Primitive Groups, Uniform Minimality, and Direct Products of Automata
• Supervisor: J. Bell

Kari Eifler

• Title: Graph C* Algebras and the Abelian Core
• Supervisor: L. Marcoux and M. Kennedy

Ikenna Ezike

• Title: On the Greedy and Lazy Beta-Expansions
• Supervisor: K.G. Hare

Mireille Suzanne Findleton

• Title: A Simply-Connected Symplectic Calabi-Yau 6-Manifold
• Supervisor: D. Park

Mitchell Haslehurst

• Title: Regularity of Arens Multiplication and Weakly Almost Periodic Functionals on Banach Algebra
• Supervisor: N. Spronk and B. Forrest

​Ehsaan Hossain

• Title: The Algebraic Kirchberg-Phillips Conjecture for Leavitt Path Algebras
• Supervisor: J. Bell

Shuming Jia

• Title: The Linear Sieve and Chen's Theorem
• Supervisor: Y-R. Liu

Richard Mack

• Title: On Banach Spaces Admitting Unique Preduals
• Supervisor: N. Spronk

Arthur Mehta

• Title: Semi-pre-C*-Algebras and positivstellensatz
• Supervisor: M. Kennedy

Patrick Naylor

• Title: Lefschetz Fibrations
• Supervisor: D. Park

Emily Neufeld

• Title: On Kolmogorov Complexity and Minimal Pairs of K-Degrees
• Supervisor: B. Csima

Nickolas Rollick

• Title: Integer Points on Genus Zero Projective Curves
• Supervisor: D. McKinnon

Dennis Stauffer

• Title: Additive Properties of Beta-Integers for Quadratic Pisot Numbers
• Supervisor: K.G. Hare

2015

Michael Baker

• Title: Elliptic curves over finite fields and their l-torsion Galois representations
• Supervisor: D. McKinnon

Alexander Berenbeim

• Title: Some Preliminary Steps Towards a Formally Verified Proof of the Weil Conjectures
• Supervisor: D. McKinnon

John Campbell

• Title: Some Problems and Results Related to Nil and Graded-Nilpotent Rings
• Supervisor: J. Bell

Hanci Chi

• Title: On the Weitzenbock Formula and Integrability in Higher Dimensional Gauge Theory
• Supervisor: B. Charbonneau

​Zachary Cramer​

• Title: Normal Limits of Nilpotents and Normal Operator Similarity Orbits in Purely Infinite C*-Algebras
• Supervisor: L. Marcoux

James Haley

• Title: Strongly Reductive Operators and Strongly Reductive Operator Algebras
• Supervisor: L. Marcoux

​Samuel Harris

• Title: Kadison Similarity Problem and Similarity Degree
• Supervisor: L. Marcoux

Samin Riasat

• Title: On Prime Factors of Consecutive Integers
• Supervisor: C. Stewart

Asmita Sodhi

• Title: Classifying Smooth, Compact Toric Surfaces
• Supervisor: D. McKinnon

Rui Philip Xiao

• Title: K-Theory for C*-Algebras and for Topological Spaces
• Supervisor: K. Davidson

Hee Sung Yang

• Title: On the Approximation of Real Numbers with Algebraic Integers of Low Degree
• Supervisor: C. Stewart

Polly Yu

• Title: Spans of Projections in Certain C*-Algebras
• Supervisor: L. Marcoux