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 .

PhD

Iuliia Popova	In progress (began September 2024)
Zakaria Baammi	In progress (began January 2022)
Patricia Sorya	Caractérisation de noeuds via chirurgie de Dehn, PhD, UQAM, 2025.
Giacomo Bascapé	SU(2)-abelian graph manifolds with a single JSJ torus, PhD, UQAM, 2025.
Idrissa Ba	Revetements ramifiés, feuilletages, groupes ordonnables, L-espaces et entrelacs fortement quasipositives, PhD thesis, UQAM 2019.
Jonathan Lemaire-Beaucage	L'ordonabilité à gauche du groupe fondamental du revetement double ramifié d'entrelacs. PhD thesis, UQAM 2019.
Christian Huygens Ravelomanana	Cosmetic surgeries on 3-manifolds. PhD thesis, UQAM 2015.
Radu Cebanu	A generalisation of Property R. PhD thesis, UQAM 2013.
Liam Watson	Involutions on 3-Manifolds and Khovanov homology. PhD thesis, UQAM 2009.
Gabriel Indurskis	Remplissages d'une composante de bord de l'extérieure de l'entrelacs de Whitehead. PhD thesis, UQAM 2006.
Thomas Mattman	The Culler-Shalen seminorms of pretzel knots. PhD thesis, McGill University, 2000.
Denis Tanguay	Chirurgie finie et noeuds rationnels. PhD thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal, 1996.

MASTERS

Sarah Zbida	La torsion de Reidemeister et ses applications en topologie de basse dimension, MSc, UQAM, 2025
Vladimir Sarde	Étude des classes de commensurabilité pour les variétés de dimension deux et trois, MSc, UQAM, 2022
Francis Beauchemin-Coté	Revetements ramifiés de noeuds quasipositives et 3-sphères d'homologie entière, MSc, UQAM, 2018.
Clovis Kari	Sur une conjecture reliant les groupes fondamentaux ordonnables à gauche, les L-espaces, et les feuilletages tendues co-orientées, MSc, UQAM, 2017.
Ali Khardani	Groupes ordonnés et les variétés de dimension 3, MSc, UQAM, 2015.
Etienne Ayotte-Sauvé	Chirurgie de Dehn et la conjecture de propriété P, MSc, Université de Montréal, 2005.
Julie Picard	Le polynôme de Jones et quelques conjectures associées, MSc, UQAM, 2004.
Martin Dagenais	Corps convexes, MSc, UQAM, 2002.
Caroline Aubin	Geometric representation theory, MSc, McGill University, 2000.
Yassir Miladi	Le A-polynôme, MSc, UQAM, 2000.
Bernard Wagneur	Variétés de Seifert, MSc, UQAM, 1995.
Gerardo Da Ponte	Cobordisme orienté, ses applications et son calcul en basse dimension, MSc, UQAM, 1995.
Virginie Charette	Structures hyperboliques et représentations d'holonomie, MSc, UQAM, 1994.
Marie-Claude Perigny	Notions de dynamique symbolique et applications géométriques, MSc, UQAM, 1993.
Jean Guerin	La théorie des orbifolds, MSc, UQAM, 1992.
Luc Patry	Translatants et sous-groupes à engendrement fini de GL2, MSc, UQAM, 1991.
Daniel Derome	Les nouveaux invariants polynomiaux de la théorie des noeuds, MSc, UQAM, 1991.

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Bojun Zhao	PhD, University at Buffalo, 2024. Dr. Zhao will spend the academic years 2024-26 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow.
Connor Sell	PhD, Rice University, 2023. Dr. Sell will spend the academic years 2023-25 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow.
Chi Cheuk Tsang	PhD, Berkeley, 2023. Dr. Tsang will spend the academic years 2023-26 at UQAM as a CRM-ISM and CIRGET postdoctoral fellow.
Antonio Alfieri	PhD, Alfred Renyi Institute, 2019. Dr. Alfieri will spend the academic years 2021-24 as a CRM-ISM postdoctoral and CIRGET fellow.
Alberto Cavallo	PhD, Alfred Renyi Institute, 2021-2023. Dr. Cavallo spent the academic years 2021-23 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow.
Tyrone Ghaswala	PhD, University of Waterloo, 2017. Dr. Ghaswala was a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow January 2020 - July 2022. Currently he is a tenure track assistant professor at the University of Waterloo
Biji Wong	PhD, Brandeis University, 2017. Dr. Wong spent the academic years 2017-20 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University.
Ying Hu	PhD, Louisiana State University, 2015. Dr. Hu spent the academic years 2015-18 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently she is a tenure track assistant professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Patrick Orson	PhD, University of Edinburgh, 2015. Dr. Orson spent the winter-summer 2017 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is an assistant professor at Cal Poly.
Matthias Nagel	PhD, University of Regensburg, 2015. Dr. Nagel spent the academic years 2015-17 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently he works in the private sector.
Juliana Roberta Théodora de Lima	PhD, Universidade de Sao Paulo 2014. CIRGET postdoctoral 2015-16 at UQAM. Presently lecturer in mathematics at the Federal University of Alagoas, Maceió Brésil.
Christopher Cornwell	PhD, Michigan State University, 2011. Dr. Cornwell spent the academic years 2014-16 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is a tenure track assistant professorship at Towson University.
Michael Brandenbursky	PhD, Technion, 2010. Dr. Brandenbursky spent the academic years 2013-15 in Montreal as a CRM/ISM postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is a senior lecturer of mathematics with tenure at Ben-Gurion University.
Jessica Banks	PhD, Oxford University, 2012. Dr. Banks spent the academic years 2012-14 at UQAM as a CRM/ISM postdoctoral fellow. Currently she is a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Liverpool
Adam Clay	PhD, University of British Columbia, 2010. Dr. Clay spent the academic years 2010-13 at UQAM as an NSERC and CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is an associate professor at the University of Manitoba
Bulent Tosun	PhD, Georgia Tech, 2012. Dr. Tosun spent the academic year 2012-13 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is a tenure track assistant professor at the University of Alabama.
Sungmo Kang	PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2009. Dr. Kang spent the academic years 2010-12 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is an associate professor of mathematics at Chonnam National University
Eric Harper	PhD, University of Miami, 2010. Dr. Harper spent the academic years 2010-12 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is a Data Scientist at Dish Networks, Colorado.
Frederic Palesi	PhD, 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	PhD, 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 an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of New Brunswick.
Jeremy Van Horn-Morris	PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2007. Dr. Van Horn-Morris spent the academic years 2007-09 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is an associate professor at the University of Arkansas.
Shridar Rajagopalan	PhD, Brandeis University, 2007. Dr. Rajagopalan spent the academic year 2007-08 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow.
Stefan Friedl	PhD, Brandeis University, 2003. Dr. Friedl spent the academic years 2006-08 at UQAM as a CRM/ISM postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is a professor of mathematics at the University of Regensburg.
Genevieve Walsh	PhD, University of California at Davis, 2003. Dr. Walsh spent fall 2006 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently she is professor of mathematics at Tufts University.
Paolo Ghiggini	PhD, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2004. Dr. Ghiggini spent the academic years 2005-07 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is chargé de recherche CNRS at the Université de Nantes.
Joseph Maher	PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara, 2002. Dr. Maher spent the academic years 2005-06 at UQAM as a CRM/ISM postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is an associate professor at College of Staten Island, CUNY.
Stephan Tillmann	PhD, University of Melbourne, 2002. Dr. Tillmann spent the academic years 2003-06 at UQAM as a CRM/ISM postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Sydney.
Benjamin Klaff	PhD, University of Chicago at Illinois, 2003. Dr. Klaff spent the academic year 2003-04 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow.
Franck Harou	PhD, Université de de Rennes, 2001. Dr. Harou spent the academic year 2001-03 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently he works in the hi-tech sector in Angers, France
Elsa Mayrand	PhD, Université de Provence, 2001. Dr. Mayrand spent the academic year 2002-03 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. She is currently a professor at the Lycée navale de Brest.
Sylvain Maillot	PhD, Université Toulouse III, 2000. Dr. Maillot spent the academic years 2001-03 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. He is currently a professor of mathematics at the Université de Montpellier, France.
Arnaud Deruelle	PhD, Université de Provence, 2001. Dr. Deruelle spent the academic year 2001-02 at UQAM as a CIRGET postdoctoral fellow. Currently he is a research fellow at the University of Tokyo.
Adam Sikora	PhD, 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	PhD, Brandeis University of Minnesota, 1996. Dr. Patry spent the academic years 1996-98 at UQAM as a postdoctoral fellow.
Nabil Sayari	PhD, Université de Provence, Marseille, 1996. Dr. Sayari spent the academic years 1996-98 at UQAM as a postdoctoral fellow. He is Associate Professsor of Mathematics at the Université de Moncton.
Xingru Zhang	PhD, University of British Columbia, 1991. Dr. Zhang spent the academic years 1992-94 at UQAM as a CRM postdoctoral fellow. He is a professor of mathematics at SUNY Buffalo.
Jacques Rioux	PhD, Cornell University, 1984. Dr. Rioux spent the academic year 1988-89 at UQAM as a postdoctoral fellow. He is Senior Actuarial Scientist at the SAS Institute