Winter 2025 Meeting Update
The CMS 2025 Winter Meeting wrapped up this past weekend in Toronto, and the CMS Student Committee (StudC) is thrilled to share that all four of our events were a success
Between the workshop, poster session, research session, and our always-popular social, we saw fantastic engagement and participation from students across Canada.
Our student research session continues to grow steadily, attracting 10 speakers this year with topics ranging from numerical methods and applied dynamics to pure algebra and geometric representation theory. Attendance ranged from 3 to 13 people, which we consider a win—and with the afternoon running only five minutes behind schedule, that’s a logistical miracle worth celebrating!
The student social took place at the Twilight Café, a boardgame café near the Chelsea Hotel. The venue was a bit small and the event was more popular than expected, so we were worried that we wouldn’t be able to seat everyone. But, after adding a couple of chairs to each of the tables, all of our 50 participants were able to enjoy two hours of free boardgames, sprinkled with complimentary appetizers and drinks!
The student development workshop was also a great success this meeting. Speakers Dr. Jane Breen and Dr. Monica Nevins gave excellent talks on communicating your research through academic papers and research presentations. This interactive session seemed to be a hit with all attendees, with lots of interesting questions and discussion from everyone present.
This year’s student poster session reached what may well be a historic record with 18 posters presented! We saw especially strong representation from applied mathematics—so to all our pure math folks, we promise we’re not giving up on finding you.
A huge congratulations to our three poster session award recipients:
- Amaury De Burgos (University of Calgary) — President’s Award — The length of cyclic algebras
- Lexy Lawryshyn (University of Guelph) — AARMS Award — A Nonlinear ODE Model of Butyrate-Tumour-Immune Cell Dynamics in Colorectal Cancer
- John Hunn Smith (University of Waterloo) — StudC Award — Explicit Diagonal Asymptotics of Symmetric Multi-Affine Rational Functions via ACSV
Below is a photo of the winners receiving their awards—smiling proudly and freshly fed (food works wonders!). We’ve also included a few photos from the session itself—see if you can spot your friends, classmates, or collaborators!
