University of Toronto Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professors

Each year, a leading international researcher in the mathematical sciences is selected and invited to give a full-term course, normally related to a Fields Institute thematic program. The course may be taken for credit by graduate and advanced undergraduate students. While it is expected that the position will be filled by a person associated with a thematic program at Fields during the period of residency, candidates may also be nominated by any faculty member of the Mathematics Department at the University of Toronto. Nominations can be made either to the Fields Institute Director or to the Chair of the Department of Mathematics. The Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professor is selected by a committee representing the Fields Institute and the University of Toronto's Department of Mathematics. The Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professorship provides a stipend of $50,000 CAD for a visitor to be in residence for a term. 

	Name and Affiliation	Term	Graduate Course Title	Thematic Program
	Michael Stillman, Cornell University	January - June, 2025		Thematic Program in Commutative Algebra and Applications
	Francois Labourie, University of Côte d'Azur	January - June, 2024	Equitistribution and mixing for the geodesic flows of surfaces	Thematic Program on Randomness and Geometry
	Slawomir Solecki, Cornell University	January - June, 2023	Graduate Course on the Dynamics and Geometry of Transformation Groups	Thematic Program on Set Theoretic Methods in Algebra, Dynamics and Geometry
	Lou van den Dries, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign	January-June 2022	Graduate Course on Transseries, Model Theory, and Hardy Fields	Thematic Program on Tame Geometry, Transseries, and Applications to Analysis and Geometry
	Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah	September-December 2018	Topology and Geometry of Automorphism Groups of Free Groups	Thematic Program on Teichmüller Theory and its Connections to Geometry, Topology and Dynamics
	Messoud Efendiyev, Helmholtz Zentrum München	January-June 2018	Infinite dimensional dynamical systems and their applications in mathematical biology. Course code: TBD (schedule; syllabus TBD)	Thematic Program on Emerging Challenges in Mathematical Biology
	Fernando Codá Marques (Princeton University) and  André Neves (University of Chicago)	September- December 2017	Variational theory of minimal surfaces. Course code: MAT1901HF (schedule; syllabus)	Thematic Program on Geometric Analysis
	Gilles Villard, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université de Lyon	September- December 2015	Introduction to Computer Algebra. Course code: MAT1901HF (schedule; syllabus)	Thematic Program on Computer Algebra
	Nassif Ghoussoub, University of British Columbia	September-December 2014	Applied Analysis I: Self-dual variational calculus in PDE and mass transport. Course code: MAT1501HF	Thematic Program on Variational Problems in Physics, Economics and Geometry
	N. Christopher Phillips, University of Oregon	January-June 2014	Crossed products of C*-algebras and Banach algebras	Thematic Program on Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Banach and Operator Algebras
	Nikita Karpenko, Université Paris 6	January-June 2013	Algebraic and Geometric Theory of Quadratic Forms	Thematic Program on Torsors, Nonassociative Algebras and Cohomological Invariants
	Artur Avila, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada and Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7	January-April 2011	Ergodic and Spectral Theory of Quasiperiodic Cycles	Thematic Program on Dynamics and Transport in Disordered Systems
	Nizar Touzi, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, École Polytechnique, Centre national de la recherche scientifique	January-June 2010	Stochastic Control, BSDEs, and Applications to Finance	Thematic Program on Quantitative Finance: Foundations and Applications
	Lenore Blum, Carnegie Mellon University	September-October 2009	Complexity and Accuracy in Numeric Computations	Thematic Program on the Foundations of Computational Mathematics
	Yum-Tong Siu, Harvard University	September-December 2008	Transcendental Methods in Algebraic Geometry	Thematic Program on Arithmetic Geometry, Hyerbolic Geometry and Related Topics

McMaster University Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professors

Each year, a leading international researcher in the mathematical sciences is selected and invited as a visitor in residence for a 4-6 month term. Normally, this person will be associated with a thematic program at the Institute during the period of residency, but nominations for other candidates may also be made by members of the faculty engaged in mathematical research. The McMaster DDVP is expected to be actively involved with a research group at McMaster during their visit. The Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professor is selected by a committee representing the Fields Institute and McMaster University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. The Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professorship provides a stipend of $60,000 CAD for a visitor to be in residence for a term. 

	Name and Affiliation	Term	Gradute Course Title	Thematic Program
	Allen Knutson, Cornell University	January - June, 2025		Thematic Program in Commutative Algebra and Applications
	Indira Chatterji, University of Côte d'Azur	January - June, 2024	Mini Course: Random walks on groups and the rapid decay property	Thematic Program on Randomness and Geometry
	Nicola Gigli, SISSA Trieste	September - December, 2022	Introduction to the Riemannian Curvature Dimension condition	Thematic Program on Nonsmooth Riemannian and Lorentzian Geomtry
	Chris Miller, The Ohio State University	January - June, 2022	Model Theory	Thematic Program on Tame Geomtry, Transseries, and Applications to Analysis and Geometry