Blake Madill
Biography
Current Teaching (Spring 2026):
PMATH 347: Groups and Rings
PMATH 351: Real Analysis
Upcoming Teaching:
MATH 229: Introduction to Combinatorics (Fall 2026)
PMATH 432/632: Mathematical Logic (Fall 2026)
Research Interests
N/A
Education
2017, Ph.D. in Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
2013, M. Math. in Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
2012, B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Awards
2025, Outstanding Performance Award
2016, University of Waterloo Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student
2013-2016, NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship - Doctoral (PGSD3)
2013, University of Waterloo Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Service
Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies, Department of Pure Mathematics
Chair, Faculty Committee for Student Appeals
University Senator
Teaching*
- MATH 116 - Calculus 1 for Engineering
- Taught in 2023
- MATH 135 - Algebra for Honours Mathematics
- Taught in 2021
- MATH 136 - Linear Algebra 1 for Honours Mathematics
- Taught in 2023, 2024
- MATH 145 - Algebra (Advanced Level)
- Taught in 2022
- MATH 147 - Calculus 1 (Advanced Level)
- Taught in 2025
- MATH 148 - Calculus 2 (Advanced Level)
- Taught in 2022, 2026
- MATH 245 - Linear Algebra 2 (Advanced Level)
- Taught in 2022, 2024, 2025
- MATH 247 - Calculus 3 (Advanced Level)
- Taught in 2021
- PMATH 333 - Introduction to Real Analysis
- Taught in 2021
- PMATH 347 - Groups and Rings
- Taught in 2026
- PMATH 348 - Fields and Galois Theory
- Taught in 2023
- PMATH 351 - Real Analysis
- Taught in 2022, 2025, 2026
- PMATH 367 - Topology
- Taught in 2024
- PMATH 370 - Chaos and Fractals
- Taught in 2024
- PMATH 441 - Algebraic Number Theory
- Taught in 2022, 2023
- PMATH 450 - Lebesgue Integration and Fourier Analysis
- Taught in 2021, 2023, 2025
- PMATH 451 - Measure and Integration
- Taught in 2022
- PMATH 453 - Functional Analysis
- Taught in 2023
- PMATH 641 - Algebraic Number Theory
- Taught in 2022, 2023
- PMATH 650 - Lebesgue Integration and Fourier Analysis
- Taught in 2021, 2023, 2025
- PMATH 651 - Measure and Integration
- Taught in 2022
- PMATH 753 - Functional Analysis
- Taught in 2023
* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.
Selected/Recent Publications
Hong, C.Y.; Kim, N.K.; Madill, B.; Nielsen, P.; Ziembowski, M. Homogeneous nilradicals over semigroup graded rings. J. Pure Appl. Algebra 222 (2018), no. 7, 1513–1528.
Madill, B. On the Jacobson radical of skew polynomial extensions of rings satisfying a polynomial identity. Comm. Algebra 44 (2016), no. 3, 913–918.
Bell, J.; Madill, B. Iterative algebras. Algebr. Represent. Theory 18 (2015), no. 6, 1533–1546.
Bell, J.; Madill, B.; Shinko, F. Differential polynomial rings over rings satisfying a polynomial identity. J. Algebra 423 (2015), 28–36.
Bennett, M.; Madill, B.; Stokke, A. Jeu-de-taquin promotion and a cyclic sieving phenomenon for semistandard hook tableaux. Discrete Math 319 (2014), 62–67.
Madill, B.; Rampersad, N. The abelian complexity of the paperfolding word. Discrete Math 313 (2013), no. 7, 831–838.