ANNUAL REPORT2019 Table of Contents About CMS . 3 President’s Report . 4 Prizes & Awards . 6 CMS Fellows . 11 Math Camps . 12 Meetings . 13 Committee Reports . 15 Grants . 22 Financial Overview . 23 Donors . 24 Sponsors . 25 2 CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY About CMS Mathematical Competitions Committee Chair: Dorette Pronk (Dalhousie) As of December 31, 2019 Nominating Committee Board of Directors Chair: David Pike (Memorial) *Mark Lewis (Alberta), President *Javad Mashreghi (Laval), President-Elect Publications Committee *Sara Faridi (Dalhousie), VP-Atlantic Chair: Javad Mashreghi (Laval) *Matilde Lalin (Montreal), VP-Quebec Research Committee *Monica Nevins (Ottawa), VP-Ontario Chair: Kai Behrend (UBC) *Gerda de Vries (Alberta), VP-West *Malabika Pramanik (UBC), VP-Pacific Student Committee Co-Chairs: Yuliya Nesterova (Queen’s) and Nancy Clarke (Acadia), Atlantic Sébastien Lord (Ottawa) Stephen Finbow (StFX), Atlantic Christophe Hohlweg (UQAM), Quebec Women in Mathematics Committee Damir Kinzebulatov (Laval), Quebec Chair: Vacant Alina Stancu (Concordia), Quebec CJM/CMB Editorial Board Hans Boden (McMaster), Ontario Editors-in-Chief CJM: Louigi Addario-Berry Anthony Bonato (Ryerson), Ontario and Eyal Goren (McGill) Barbara Csima (Waterloo), Ontario Editors-in-Chief CMB: Jie Xiao and Megan Dewar (Tutte Institute), Ontario Xiaoqiang Zhao (Memorial) Adam Clay (Manitoba), West Joy Morris (Lethbridge), West CMS Notes Editorial Board Sarah Plosker (Brandon), West Editors-in-Chief: Robert Dawson and Ailana Fraser (UBC), Pacific Srinivasa Swaminathan (Dalhousie) Veselin Jungic (Simon Fraser), Pacific Crux Mathematicorum Editorial Board Liam Watson (UBC), Pacific Editor-in-Chief: Kseniya Garaschuk (Fraser Valley) Pamela Brittain (Toronto), Student ATOM Editorial Board Appointed by the Board Editor-in-Chief: Vacant Mark Lewis (Chair) Javad Mashreghi (Vice-Chair) CMS Books in Mathematics Series Editorial Board *David Oakden (Treasurer) Editors-in-Chief: Karl Dilcher and Graham Wright (Consultant) Keith Taylor (Dalhousie) *Termeh Kousha (Corporate Secretary) Administrative Offices *Also members of the Executive Committees and Editorial Boards Executive Office Denise Charron – Manager, Memberships Distinguished Awards Selection Committee & Publications Chair: Mark Lewis (Alberta) Alan Kelm – Manager, Electronic Services Education Committee Termeh Kousha – Executive Director Chair: Joseph Khoury (Ottawa) Zishad Lak – Fundraising and Endowment Grants Committee Communications Officer Yvette Roberts – Manager, Finance & Operations Chair: Franco Saliola (UQAM) Gosia Skrobutan – Project Officer Finance Committee Sarah Watson – Manager, Meetings and Events Chair: Bradd Hart (McMaster) Graham Wright – Consultant International Affairs Committee Publications Office Chair: Martin Barlow (UBC) Craig Platt – Technical Editor Invested Funds Committee Michael Doob – Technical Consultant Chair: David Saunders (Waterloo) Srinivasa Swaminathan – Associate Technical Editor ANNUAL REPORT 2019 3 President’s Report Prof. Mark Lewis (Alberta) Dear members of During the last two years the CMS has strongly the Canadian mathematical focused on promoting equity, diversity, and community, I greet you warmly inclusiveness at all levels . This includes developing and wish you the best as you two new committees that are essential to the future navigate this interesting year of of the CMS . Following on from the report from the 2020 . This is the end of my term Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, we as President of the Canadian developed terms of reference for a new Reconciliation Mathematical Society (CMS) . in Mathematics Committee and are in the process It has been a great pleasure of forming the committee . This committee is to serve the community in this responsible for (i) coordinating the contributions of role . I have learned a great deal about the quality and the mathematical community to the reconciliation diversity of our Canadian mathematical community, process, and (ii) devising a strategy to eliminate and my time as President has been rewarding educational and employment gaps in mathematics personally . Indeed, it has been a great pleasure to between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians . work with a group of highly motivated, hardworking Recognizing that diversity takes many forms, we individuals, both in the CMS administrative office also have a new Committee on Equity, Diversity and and outside of it, as we have moved forward on Inclusiveness . I am happy to say that we had our first shared goals . We are truly fortunate to have a cadre Equity and Diversity Lunch at University of Regina of staff and volunteers who are dedicated to serving during our 2019 Summer Meeting as well as our first mathematics in Canada, and they are crucial to LGBTQ lunch in Toronto at the 2019 Winter Meeting . making the ideas, initiatives, and resources a reality . In terms of making CMS meetings as open and We live in interesting times . The mathematical accessible as possible, we have a new policy for landscape is changing quickly in many ways that child-care, which commits to providing this essential I will attempt to describe below . Also, the recent service at summer and winter meetings . We also emergence of COVID-19 has affected every aspect have a new code of conduct, focusing on the highest of the CMS and its operations . More on this to come . standard of conduct, fairness, and integrity in all One of the biggest changes during my tenure was activities, including semi-annual and other meetings . the hiring of Executive Director Dr . Termeh Kousha, Many of the developments and events listed here who started in September 2018 . She came from the were long overdue, and I am happy they have become University of Ottawa, with an outstanding record a reality with the help of the Executive Committee of teaching and education . She has grown into her as well as regular CMS members, who provided role of Executive Director and has put her stamp constant support and assistance to do more, and I on the CMS, bringing forward many new ideas and give them a heart-felt thank you . I feel like my role as finding new efficiencies in our operations . She has President has been very much to help facilitate the considerably improved our budgetary situation, vision provided by these highly motivated individuals . putting us on a solid foundation to deal with the Another area of change has been with respect to financial shocks we are now facing from COVID-19 . developing and implementing a new CMS Fellows It has been a great pleasure to work with her . Program . The Fellows Program was instituted to recognize mathematicians who have made very 4 CANADIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY significant contributions to the profession and to During the pandemic, mathematical models are the Canadian Mathematical Society . The Fellowship being broadly integrated into the public discussion . recognizes CMS members who have made excellent This has been exciting to witness, but it is unusual to contributions to mathematical research, teaching, see mathematics play such a central role in broader or exposition as well as having distinguished society . Indeed, because of its highly technical nature, themselves in serving Canada’s mathematical the importance of mathematics has often remained community . It was a great personal pleasure to help unrecognized . Too often the power of mathematics to recognize the 60 inaugural CMS Fellows welcomed at effect change in business, communication, humanities, the Winter Meeting Banquets in December 2018 and industry, science and technology is hidden from view 2019, and I look forward to seeing more new fellows at and we need to do more to communicate the value meetings to come (whether in person or virtual) . of the subject we love . Because of this, I am very Each year the CMS has the opportunity to recognize happy to share news of the new MITACS Innovation outstanding research, teaching and service in Lecture, to be held yearly at the CMS Winter Meeting, mathematics across Canada by presenting awards . starting in Winter 2020 . With generous support from These included the 2019 Graham Wright Award for MITACS, the purpose of the lecture is to illuminate Distinguished Service to Karl Dilcher (Dalhousie), the mathematical underpinnings of significant new the 2019 G . de B . Robinson Award for publication of innovative developments that are impacting our world excellent papers to Lars Louder (University College and the way we relate to it . This lecture is meant for the London) and Henry Wilton (University of Cambridge), public, for general academics, and for mathematicians the 2019 Adrien Pouliot Award for mathematics at all stages and from all backgrounds . education to Tiina Hohn (MacEwan), the 2019 Doctoral The current COVID-19 pandemic has forced the prize to Mikhail Karpukhin (California at Irvine), CMS to re-evaluate and readjust every aspect of its the 2019 Coxeter-James Prize for young mathematical operations . Office staff are now working from home . researchers to Jacob Tsimerman (Toronto), the 2019 While we had an amazing line-up for our summer Krieger-Nelson Award for outstanding contributions 2020 meeting in Ottawa, designed to celebrate the in the area of mathematical research by a female 75th anniversary of the CMS, we will have to wait mathematician to Julia Gordon (UBC), the 2019 CMS until next year before celebrating: the meeting has Excellence in Teaching Award to Andrea Fraser now been postponed to 2021 . We are also currently (Dalhousie),