Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of Steven Boyer

The graduate programs in mathematics of the four Montreal universities as well as those of the Université de Sherbrooke and Université Laval are coordinated by the Institut des Sciences Mathematiques (ISM). For information on local graduate scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships see ISM .

Graduate students: In progress Completed
Postdoctoral fellows: In progress Completed

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION

In Progress:

Ph.D.

Jonathan Lemaire-Beaucage

Christian Huygens Ravelomanana

Radu Cebanu

Completed:

PH.D.

Liam Watson Involutions on 3-Manifolds and Khovanov homology. Ph.D. thesis, UQAM 2009.
Dr. Watson is an NSERC postdoctoral fellow and Hedrick Assistant Professor at UCLA.

Gabriel Indurskis Remplissages d'une composante de bord de l'extérieure de l'entrelacs de Whitehead. Ph.D. thesis, UQAM 2006.
Dr. Indurskis is professor of mathematics at Champlain College

Thomas Mattman The Culler-Shalen seminorms of pretzel knots. Ph.D. thesis, McGill University, 2000.
Dr. Mattman is professor of Mathematics at California State University at Chico

Denis Tanguay Chirurgie finie et noeuds rationnels. Ph.D. thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1996.
Dr. Tanguay is associate professor of mathematics education at the Université du Québec à Montréal

MASTERS

Etienne Ayotte-Sauvé Chirurgie de Dehn et la conjecture de propriété P, Mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Montréal, 2005.

Julie Picard Le polynôme de Jones et quelques conjectures associées. Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2004.

Martin Dagenais Corps convexes. Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2002.

Caroline Aubin Geometric representation theory. M. Sc. thesis, McGill University, 2000.

Yassir Miladi Le A-polynôme. Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2000.

Bernard Wagneur Variétés de Seifert. Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1995.

Gerardo Da Ponte Cobordisme orienté, ses applications et son calcul en basse dimension. Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1995.

Virginie Charette Structures hyperboliques et représentations d'holonomie. Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1994.

Marie-Claude Perigny Notions de dynamique symbolique et applications géométriques. Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1993.

Jean Guerin La théorie des orbifolds. Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1992.

Luc Patry Translatants et sous-groupes à engendrement fini de GL2. Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1991.

Daniel Derome Les nouveaux invariants polynomiaux de la théorie des noeuds. Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1991.

SUPERVISION OF POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

A) IN PROGRESS:


Adam Clay Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2010
Dr. Clay will spend the academic years 2010-12 as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.

Sungmo Kang Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Dr. Kang will spend the academic years 2010-12 as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.

Eric Harper Ph.D., University of Miami, 2010
Dr. Harper will spend the academic years 2010-12 as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.

B) COMPLETED:

Frederic Palesi Ph.D., ENS Lyon, 2010
Dr. Palesi spent the academic year 2010-11 at the Université de Sherbrooke and UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently maître de conférence at the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I.

Nicholas Touikan Ph.D., McGill University, 2009
Dr. Touikan spent 09/2009 - 11/2010 at UQAM and 11/2010 - 09/2011 at Oxford University as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale Parc Scientifique et Technologique de Luminy.

Jeremy Van Horn-Morris Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Dr. Van Horn-Morris spent the academic years 2007-09 as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
Currently he is an American Institute for Mathematics postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.

Shridar Rajagopalan Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2007
Dr. Rajagopalan spent the academic year 2007-08 as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.

Stefan Friedl Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2003
Dr. Friedl is spent the academic years 2006-08 as a CRM/ISM postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
Currently he is a professor of mathematics at the University of Cologne.

Genevieve Walsh Ph.D., University of California at Davis, 2003
Dr. Walsh spent fall 2006 as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
Currently she is a tenure-track assistant professor at Tufts University.

Paolo Ghiggini Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore, 2004
Dr. Ghiggini spent the academic years 2005-07 as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
Currently he is chargé de recherche CNRS at the Université de Nantes.

Joseph Maher Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2002
Dr. Maher spent the academic years 2005-06 as a CRM/ISM postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
Currently he is a tenure track assistant professor at College of Staten Island, CUNY.

Stephan Tillmann Ph.D., University of Melbourne, 2002
Dr. Tillmann spent the academic years 2003-06 as a CRM/ISM postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
Currently he is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Sydney.

Benjamin Klaff Ph.D., University of Chicago at Illinois, 2003
Dr. Klaff spent the academic year 2003-04 as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
Currently he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Franck Harou Ph.D., Université de de Rennes, 2001.
Dr. Harou spent the academic year 2001-03 as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
Currently he works in the hi-tech sector in Angers, France

Elsa Mayrand Ph.D., Université de Provence, 2001.
Dr. Mayrand spent the academic year 2002-03 as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
She is currently a professor at the Lycée navale de Brest.

Sylvain Maillot Ph.D., Université Toulouse III, 2000.
Dr. Maillot spent the academic years 2001-03 as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
He is currently a professor of mathematics at the Université de Montpellier, France.

Arnaud Deruelle Ph.D., Université de Provence, 2001.
Dr. Deruelle spent the academic year 2001-02 as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
Currently he is a research fellow at the University of Tokyo.

Adam Sikora Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2000
Dr. Sikora spent the academic years 2000-02 at UQAM as a CRM/ISM postdoctoral fellow.
He is currently Associate Professsor of Mathematics at SUNY at Buffalo.

Luc Patry Ph.D., Brandeis University of Minnesota, 1996.
Dr. Patry spent the academic years 1996-98 as a postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
He is currently a tenure track assistant professor at the Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Nabil Sayari Ph.D., Universitá de Provence, Marseille, 1996.
Dr. Sayari spent the academic years 1996-98 as a postdoctoral fellow at the UQAM.
He is currently Associate Professsor of Mathematics at the Université de Moncton.

Xingru Zhang Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 1991.
Dr. Zhang spent the academic years 1992-94 as a CRM postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.
He is a professor of mathematics at SUNY Buffalo.

Jacques Rioux Ph.D., Cornell University, 1984.
Dr. Rioux spent the academic year 1988-89 as a postdoctoral fellow at UQAM.