Recent PhD graduates

2020 |2019 |2018 |2017 |2016 |2015

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

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

Hongdi Huang

• Title:  On Hopf Ore Extensions and Zariski Cancellation Problems
• Supervisor: Jason Bell

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