Scientific Committee
Marie-Hélène Descary
UQAM
Marie-Hélène Descary is a professor of statistics at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), a member of the CRM Statistics Laboratory, as well as the UQAM faculty research center in statistics and data science, STATQAM.
Before joining UQAM in 2018, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the methodology and data analysis group at the University of Geneva. She obtained her PhD at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, working in the Chair of Mathematical Statistics under the supervision of Prof. Victor Panaretos.
Her research focuses on functional data analysis. In particular, she is interested in alignment problems for complex statistical objects such as curve fragments, quantile functions, and image contours.
Jake Levinson
Université de Montréal
Jake Levinson is an associate professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at the Université de Montréal and a member of LACIM.
Before joining the Université de Montréal in 2023, he was an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University, and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Washington and at UQAM. He completed his PhD at the University of Michigan in 2017.
His research is in combinatorial algebraic geometry, particularly on using combinatorics related to moduli spaces (notably Grassmannians and moduli spaces of curves) and to enumerative problems in algebra, geometry and representation theory.
Giovanni Rosso
Concordia University
Giovanni Rosso is an associate professor at Concordia University and a member of the Montreal Number Theory Group.
Previously, he was a Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow at the DPMMS in Cambridge, where he co-organized the Number Theory Seminar with Jack Thorne, and a fellow at Pembroke College. Before that, he was a visitor at Columbia University thanks to an FWO travel grant. He completed his PhD in mathematics at KULeuven and Paris 13, under the direction of Prof. J. Nicaise and Prof. J. Tilouine, and previously studied at ALGANT.
His research topic is number theory. He has been working on the derivative of L p-adic functions for the symmetric square of a modular form in different cases: ordinary, finite slope, or ordinary over a totally real field. He now generalises these results to Siegel forms and applys them in the study of the Main Conjecture.
Alina Stancu
Concordia University
Alina Stancu is professor of mathematics at Concordia University, and member of the CRM’s analysis lab, working in the area of geometric analysis.
Before joining Concordia University, she has held positions as NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, Associate Research Scientist Fellow at the Courant Institute, and Assistant Professor at University of Massachussetts, Lowell. She has served as director of the Institut des sciences mathématiques (2015-2018), as member and chair of several committees of the Canadian Mathematical Society and was involved in several outreach activities.
Her research interests lie in the areas of convex and differential geometry, pertaining particularly to isoperimetric-type problems, affine inequalities and curvature flows.
