Speakers
Take a look at the roster of plenary and public speakers for the 2025 Winter Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society
Craig Kaplan
University of Waterloo
Public Lecturer
Craig S. Kaplan is a Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He studies the application of computer graphics and mathematics to problems in art, architecture and design, and is an expert on topics such as Islamic geometric patterns and computational applications of tiling theory. He is a member of the board of the Bridges Organization and helps to run their annual conference on mathematics and art.
Diana Skrzydlo
University of Waterloo
Education Plenary Lecture
Diana Skrzydlo is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and the current Math Faculty Teaching Fellow. She has been teaching at the University of Waterloo since 2007 and has spoken widely on innovative teaching and assessment techniques, including in Indonesia with the READI project. From 2019-2024 she was the Director of the MActSc program. She won the SAS department teaching award in 2016, the Faculty of Math Award for Distinction in Teaching in 2019, and the University Distinguished Teacher Award in 2023. Internationally, she was the recipient of the Robert V Hogg award
for Excellence in Teaching Introductory Statistics in 2023 and the first Society of Acutuaries Outstanding Educator Award in 2024. She has a BMath (2006) and MMath (2007) from UW, and achieved her ASA designation from the Society of Actuaries in 2018.
Monica Visan
University of California,
Los Angelas
Plenary Lecture
Monica Visan is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she has been a faculty member since 2009. She earned her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2006. After two years as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (2006-2008), she served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago (2008-2009) and was a Harrington Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin (2010-2011).
Visan's research interests span dispersive partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, and completely integrable systems. Her work was recognized with a Clay Liftoff Fellowship in 2006, a Sloan Fellowship in 2010, a Frontiers of Science Award at the International Congress of Basic Science in 2023, a Simons Fellowship in 2024, the 2026 Emmy Noether Lecturer award, and a speaker invitation at the International Congress of Mathematics in 2026. Her research has also been supported by the US NSF since 2009.
Louigi Addario-Berry
McGill University
Plenary Lecture
Louigi Addario-Berry works in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University, as a Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Discrete Probability. His research is focussed on the properties of random trees, graphs, and maps, with occasional forays into combinatorics, analysis of algorithms, and statistical mechanics.
His work has been recognized by the receipt of the Coxeter-James Prize (2016); by Fellowship of the Canadian Mathematical Society (2019); by Fellowship of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2020), cited "for fundamental contributions to probability, in particular to the topics of branching structures and random graphs, and for his devoted service to the mathematical sciences and promotion of diversity within them", and by a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics (2021).