Past Speakers

Richard Hoshino

Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University

November 10, 2023

Richard Hoshino is an Associate Teaching Professor at the Vancouver campus of Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern in 2020, Richard was a mathematician for the Government of Canada, a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, and a professor of mathematics and computer science at Quest University Canada in Squamish, British Columbia. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Dr. Jane Heffernan

Professor at York University and co-director of the Canadian Centre for Disease Modelling

October 13 , 2022 

Hailed as one of Canada’s leading applied mathematicians, and as a widely respected researcher on the spread and persistence of infectious diseases, Dr. Jane Heffernan has been a professor at York University’s Faculty of Science since 2007, where she is also a co-Director of the Centre for Disease Modelling and a Tier II Research Chair. Jane’s work has addressed public health and disease issues, her focus of late dedicated almost exclusively to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her research has been published in several prestigious journals and her papers have been extensively cited.

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