Please register for the inaugural Mathematics for Public Health (MfPH) lecture series talk by Prof. Henri Berestycki. 

The MfPH group is comprised of 48 co-investigators, 21 Canadian institutions and more than 20 national and international collaborators in fields such as epidemiology, mathematical modelling, infectious disease, and public health. It will mobilize a national network that uses state-of-the-art techniques to advise on public health policy with the long-term goal of boosting future epidemic preparedness and improving Canada’s resilience in emergency situations. The MfPH group has just received $3M in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), to be distributed over a two-year period with the goal of establishing this network. For more information on this initiative, please see the press release. 

Henri Berestycki is a French mathematician who studied at Ecole normale supérieure in Paris and obtained his PhD from Sorbonne Université. He has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear partial differential equations and opened new areas in modeling.  His research concerns the Qualitative Theory of Nonlinear Parabolic and Elliptic PDE’s, Reaction– Diffusion Equations, and Propagation Phenomena. His work is in dialogue with Physics, Biology, Ecology, Epidemiology, and Social Sciences. Henri Berestycki holds the chair of “Mathematical Analysis and Modeling” since 2001 at Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He is Senior Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Hong Kong University of Sciences and Technology since 2018. Among numerous awards and distinctions, he received the Gay-Lussac - Humboldt Prize (2004) in Germany, the Sophie Germain Prize of the French Académie of Sciences (2004) and is a foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2013). He was the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant (2013-2018) on Reaction Diffusion Equations and Propagation Phenomena.