Dr. Manu Paranjape is a professor in the Département de physique, Université de Montréal. He is also a member of the Centre de recherches mathématiques. His general research area is theoretical physics, including induced quantum numbers, Skyrmions, non-commutative geometry, quantum spin systems, instantons and aspects of gravity.
Dr. Richard MacKenzie is a professor of physics at the Université de Montréal. His research is in theoretical physics and applications in a variety of fields, including particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter physics and quantum information.
Dr. Zora Thomova is a Professor of Mathematics at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Utica NY. Her research in the area of mathematical physics focuses on symmetries of differential and difference equations arising in physics, engineering and other sciences.
Dr. Pavel Winternitz is a professor at the Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université de Montréal. His research isdevoted to applications of group theory to physics. In particular nonlinear phenomena in physics, integrable and superintegrable systems and symmetries of differential, difference and delay equations.
Dr. William Witczak-Krempa is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Université de Montréal, where he holds a Canada Research Chair on Quantum Phase Transitions. He is a member of the Centre de recherches mathématiques. His research aims to understand and characterize novel quantum phases of matter by using an interdisciplinary approach. He has been active in studying quantum criticality, topological phases, and entanglement in many-body systems.