Andrew Irwin investigated altruistic behaviour and the iterated prisoner's dilemma in a spatially structured population. Andrew went on to do a post-doc at Rutgers with Peter Smouse. He is now an Assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Mt. Allison University.

David Heath, a young man of remarkably diverse talents and interests, worked for many years in the risk management group at BMO in Toronto and New York, and then departed for Chicago to embark on his PhD studies in Mathematical Finance.

Nathalie Sinclair graduated with a PhD in mathematics education with an awesome thesis on beauty in mathematics. She is a whiz at designing interactive curriculum units. From Queen’s she went to a post doc at Simon Fraser, and an assistant professorship at Michigan State. She is now Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at Simon Fraser University.

James Lee studied dispersal behaviour between subpopulations and the evolutionary consequences of genomic imprinting. He continued with a post-doctoral fellowship in Zoology at University of Toronto with Peter Abrams. He is now a carpenter making beautiful furniture.

Geoff Wild came with an M.Sc. in Biology from Trent and a hunger for more math, and completed his Ph.D. in 2004 working on the interactions between sex allocation and dispersal. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Mathematical Biology group at University of Western Ontario.

Kerianne Yewchuck came from the University of Alberta and completed her M.Sc. degree working on the impact of genomic imprinting on sex ratio conflict.

Carly Rozins, from a mathematics and biology background at Guelph, graduated in September 2009 with an MSc in Mathematical Biology. Currently she is doing her PhD at UBC.

Stephanie Campbell, who hails from PEI, graduated in January 2010 with an MSc in Mathematics Education. Currently she is pursuing a BEd degree at Queen's.

Current students

Amy Hurford started her PhD with us in September 2005 and is putting the finishing touches on her thesis in December 2010. She currently holds a post-doctoral fellowship at York University. She came from an M.Sc. program at the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Alberta working with Mark Lewis. She is fascinated by the problem of why some bacteria are friendly and some aren't. Her current work with me uses classic models of mimicry to gain a better understanding of autoimmune disease.

Daniel Cownden hails from the University of Victoria. He finished his MSc in 2007--an ESS investigation of the question of when you stop searching and start committing yourself to the next best thing (be it a mate or a secretary) that comes along. He is now in the final year of his PhD studies. In winter 2009 and again in 2010 he taught our game theory course MATH 239 and further developed it adding a number of neat topics and problems. In 2008-9 he employed his skills as a game theorist, along with the help of his zany neuroscience buddy, Tim Lillicrap, to win an awesome international game theory tournament which combines evolutionary game theory with strategies for learning. These ideas have "evolved" to play a fundamental role in his PhD thesis.

Wes Maciejewski comes from Edmonton and then from an MSc. at Calgary in geometric analysis. His current interests span geometry, mathematical biology, dynamical systems and math education. He has considerable experience in teaching and curriculum development and in fact that catapulted him into teaching a section of MATH 126 in his very first year with us. For the past two years he has been teaching our second-year course in Stats and DE's for Civil Engineers. In fall 2009 he obtained a MITACS ACCELERATE grant to organize a research project adapting JUMPMATH curriculum materials to address remedial math difficulties at George Brown College. This work has now morphed into a much larger project addressing adult literacy and numeracy in the college system, a project funded by HRDC.