Speakers
Take a look at the roster of plenary and public speakers for the 2025 Summer Meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society
Frédéric Gourdeau is professor of mathematics at Université Laval. Since the beginning of his career, he has worked extensively in the mathematical education or pre-service teachers and in teaching courses in the undergraduate mathematics programme (of which he is the current director). He describes his regular participation in the Canadian Mathematics Education Group (CMEG/CMSEG), which he chaired from 2004 to 2008, as the most important influence on his teaching career. His commitment to teaching has been recognised both locally and nationally: he is a
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recipient of the 3M National Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006) and of the Canadian Mathematical Society Award for Excellence in Teaching (2005). In 1998, he founded the Association québécoise des jeux mathématiques (AQJM, www.lamagiedesmaths.ulaval.ca), which organises the Championnat international des jeux mathématiques et logiques and provides free activities and resources for teachers and their students, reaching more than 100,000 young people each year.

Kate Stange
University of Colorado Boulder
Plenary Lecture
Katherine E. Stange is a number theorist at the University of Colorado Boulder, with an interest in elliptic curves, continued fractions, Kleinian groups, cryptography, and the illustration of mathematics. She enjoys simple-seeming questions that lead to a richness of structure; and arithmetic questions with geometric and especially visual access points. She is happiest simply wandering around taking field notes on the behaviour of mathematical flora and fauna. Over the years, she has happily trailed elliptic curves and isogenies, quadratic forms, Bianchi groups, Apollonian circle packings, and continued fractions, among others. In real life, she trails her two children, often on two wheels. She can be found on the web at https://math.katestange.net/.
Sergei Gukov
California Institute of Technology
IVADO Plenary Lecture
After receiving his PhD from Princeton University, Sergei Gukov spent five years at Harvard University as a research fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute and two years at the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Studies. His passion is building new bridges between different areas of mathematical physics and pure mathematics, such as quantum topology, mirror symmetry, and gauge theory. His more recent interests involve new connections between mathematics and machine learning.


Andrew Granville
Université de Montréal
Public Lecture
Andrew Granville is a Distinguished Researcher at the CRM in Montreal. His main research interest has been in developing the "pretentious approach" to analytic number theory, although he also works in arithmetic geometry, additive combinatorics, theoretical computer science, and harmonic analysis. He has published around 200 research papers, 3 textbooks and a graphic novel, ``Prime Suspects'', about mathematical research. He was the recipient of the 2021 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize.
Recently he has been increasingly concerned about the development of AI's effect on research mathematics, extensively interacting with the AI and mathematical philosophy communities.
Frédéric Gourdeau
Université Laval
Plenary Lecture