Professor Monica Cojocaru will chair this session.

Monica Cojocaru is a professor in the Mathematics & Statistics Department at the University of Guelph. She completed her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mathematics at the University of Bucharest (Romania) and Ph.D. in Mathematics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. She held an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre des Researches Mathematiques (CRM) in Montreal in 2003. She has held several visiting positions at the Centre des Researches Mathematiques, the Fields Institute, Harvard, and Northwestern Universities, at University of Brescia (2005-2011). Most recently (2017-2019) she held a Senior Visiting Research Fellowship at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, USA. She held one of only two Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair positions awarded in 2010 in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is also am Affiliate Faculty at the Waterloo Institute of Complexity and Innovation and at the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research.