Scientific Committee
Léo Belzile
HEC Montréal
Léo Belzile is an assistant professor in the department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montreal and a member of the Statlab group. He is an active member of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC).
He obtained his PhD from EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Anthony Davison in 2019. His research focuses on extreme value analysis, notably software implementation, spatial modelling, and Bayesian and likelihood-based methods for the modelling of rare events.
Joel Kamnitzer
McGill University
Joel Kamnitzer is a professor at McGill University. He is a member of LACIM and an associate member of CIRGET.
He received his PhD from UC Berkeley in 2005. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at MIT and back at UC Berkeley, before taking a tenure-track position in Toronto in 2008. He moved to McGill in 2022. He was an invited speaker at the 2022 ICM and this year, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
His research lies in representation theory. Specifically he is interested in geometric constructions in representation theory (quiver varieties and affine Grassmannians) and their interaction with algebraic combinatorics and theoretical physics (specifically supersymmetric gauge theories).
Giovanni Rosso
Concordia University
Giovanni Rosso is an assistant professor at Concordia University and a member of the Montreal Number Theory group.
Before he was 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. And before that, he has been a visitor at Columbia University thanks to a 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. Previously, he was an ALGANT student.
His research subject is number theory. More precisely, he has been working on the derivative of p-adic L-functions for the symmetric square of a modular form in different cases: ordinary, finite slope, or ordinary over a totally real field. He now generalizes these results to Siegel forms and applies 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.
