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Kavčić-Moura University Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is the Director of the Center for Nonlinear Analysis. Her research program explores modern methods in the calculus of variations motivated by problems issuing from materials science and imaging science. Her main contributions have been on the variational study of ferroelectric and magnetic materials, composites, thin structures, phase transitions, and on the mathematical analysis of image segmentation, denoising, detexturing, registration and recolorization in computer vision. She is a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and she was elected to the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (Portugal).

Associate Professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department at the University of Ottawa, cross-appointed to the School of EECS and member of the University's Brain Mind Research Institute. She works in both pure mathematics and machine learning, and was a guest editor of the Bulletin of the AMS special issue, “Will machines change mathematics?” Fraser directs Inter-Math-AI, an NSERC CREATE-funded training program across 4 Canadian universities that brings greater awareness of social impact and ethics considerations of AI to graduate students working at the intersection of mathematics and machine learning.

Professor of Mathematics & Statistics at York University and a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Modelling Infection & Immunity. Her research focuses on understanding the spread and persistence of infectious diseases in populations and on immune-pathogen/vaccine interactions in-host. Heffernan is Co-Director of York University's Centre for Disease Modelling, Past President of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB), SMB Fellow, Member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, and is Co-Lead of the Modeling and Economics Research Network for the Canadian Immunization Research Network. Heffernan is a recipient of York University’s Postdoctoral Supervisor of the Year Award.

Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia's Department of Mathematics. Her research centres on applying mathematical tools to problems in biology, with special interest in the mechanisms that control the polarization and motility of living cells such as immune cells. She continues to supervise students at all levels. Her book Mathematical Models in Biology has been a popular text since its publication in 1988. Leah served as President of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) and as Team Leader of the "Biomedical modelling of physiological processes and disease" under the Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems setwork. Her awards include the Canadian Mathematical Society Krieger-Nelson Prize, the Canadian Applied and Industrial Society Research Award, the Society for Mathematical Biology Arthur Winfree Prize, SIAM's JV Neumann Lectureship, and the CRM-PIMS-Fields Award. She is a Fellow of SMB, SIAM, and Royal Society of Canada.

Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Western University. Mináč is cross- appointed in the Computer Science Department and is co-founder, with Professors L. Muller and R. Budzinski, and A. Busch, of the Fields Lab for Network Science. He is a leading international expert in several areas in algebra including Galois cohomology, Galois modules and Massey products. He also works in mathematical methods in networks and neuroscience. He received the Jeffery-Williams Prize for research from the Canadian Mathematical Society and the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Canadian Mathematical Society. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Mathematical Society and the American Mathematical Society. He was a Distinguished Research Professor in the Faculty of Science at Western University and an Inaugural Fellow of the Western Academy for Advanced Research.

A professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Vanden-Eijnden earned his doctorate from the Université libre de Bruxelles under the supervision of Radu Bălescu. He was awarded the Germund Dahlquist Prize of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics "for his work in developing mathematical tools and numerical methods for the analysis of dynamical systems that are both stochastic and multiscale" and SIAM's J.D. Crawford Prize for outstanding research in nonlinear science.

Professor and Associate Chair (Undergraduate) in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University. He received his PhD from Queen's University and his research focuses on commutative algebra and its connections to combinatorics and algebraic geometry, particularly edge ideals, simplicial complexes, symbolic powers, and toric ideals. He has published over 90 refereed papers and two books, including Powers of Ideals and Ideals of Powers (Springer, 2020). He is an editor of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, a founding editor of the open-access journal Combinatorial Commutative Algebra and was a lead organizer of the 2025 Thematic Program in Commutative Algebra and its Applications at the Fields Institute.