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Bios of Panelists
Almut Burchard is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include geometric problems in functional analysis, PDE and probability, symmetrization, sharp inequalities, non-local functionals and network calculus. She is the recepient of the ACM Sigmetrics Best Student Paper Award (with Jörg Liebeherr and joint student Florin Ciucu, 2005), the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1999), Sigma Xi Ph.D. Thesis award (1995), and the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes Fellowship (1984-88). Almut received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and her Diploma (M.S.) in Mathematics from the Universität Heidelberg. Prior to coming to the University of Toronto, she was a researcher at the University of Virginia and Princeton University.
Anthony Bonato is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Ryerson University. His main research interest is graph theory, with applications to real-world complex networks and graph searching games such as Cops and Robbers. He is also an adjunct professor at Dalhousie University, and he is the founding member of the research group Graphs at Ryerson (G@R). Dr. Bonato's research is supported by grants from NSERC and Ryerson, with past grants from Mprime and MITACS. He is the recepient of many awards for his research and graduate supervision. He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Internet Mathematics, and is on the Editorial Board of Contributions to Discrete Mathematics. Dr. Bonato serves as Chair of the Pure Mathematics section on the NSERC Evaluation Group for Mathematics and Statistics, and has served on the Board of Directors of Mprime and MITACS NCE. He was the inaugural Associate Dean, Students and Programs in the Yeates School of Graduate Studies.
Sheila Embleton is Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics, York University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She served as Vice-President Academic & Provost at York University from 2000 to 2009, having previously been Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1994 to 2000. She served as Chair of the Ontario Council of Academic Vice-Presidents from 2004-2008 and of the National Vice-Presidents Academic Council from 2006-2007.Her academic background and graduate work is in both mathematics (BSc 1975, MSc 1976, U of Toronto) and linguistics (PhD 1981, U of Toronto), and her areas of scholarly interest are historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, mathematical/statistical methods in linguistics, and onomastics; she has published extensively in all of these areas. Her areas of language specialization include English, German, Germanic, French, Romance, Russian, Slavic, Finnish and Finno-Ugric. She is best known for applications of mathematical and statistical methods to linguistic problems broadly, with early work mostly in methods of tree reconstruction for families of related languages.
