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2021

• Plenary speaker at GRASCan workshop; August 5-6, 2021

• Invited speaker for "Combinatorics Klatch", hosted by the North East Combinatorics Network; August 3rd, 2021

2020

• Gave a talk at the Winter (Online) Meeting of the CMS (Dec 2020)

• My summer student received 2nd Prize for her talk at the Science Atlantic Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Conference (Oct 2020)

• Co-organized “Graph Searching Online” seminar series (with D. Cox and A. Bonato), Apr - Aug 2020

• Gave a talk at the Summer (Online) Meeting of the CMS in an Education Session (CCREM) (July 2020

• Gave a talk at an AARMS Math Kitchen Party (online) (June 2020)

• Received Maple League Funding (with S. Finbow, N. Clarke) to support a summer research student

2019

• Gave a talk at the Winter Meeting of the CMS in Toronto (Dec 2019).

• Gave a talk in “Interdisciplinary Conversations” at Mt.A, Oct 17, 2019. My take on the theme of IMPACT is “Mathematics: before and after Erdös”.

• Attended the WIGA Workshop at the IMA in Minneapolis (Aug 19-23)

(Women in Graph Theory and Applications)

• Awarded the Obed Edmund Smith Chair in Mathematics at Mount Allison (2019 - 2024)

• Appointed to serve at head of Mathematics and Computer Science at Mount Allison (July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2022).

• Returned from maternity leave April 10, 2019

2018

• In April 2018, I was awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant.

• On Maternity leave for all of 2018!

2017

• In March 2017, I received a (Mount Allison University) President’s Research and Creative Activities Award, valued at $14,000.

• In March 2017, I attended a local (Sackville) Brownies meeting to talk about being a mathematician.

• I organized a contributed mini-symposium at CanaDAM; held at Ryerson University, June 12-15, 2017.

• I co-organized GRASCan 2017 (Graph Searching in Canada) Workshop; held at Grenfell Campus, MUN, August 7-8, 2017.

2016

• I gave a salon talk on Cops and Robber at Thornton House, Mount Allison University, November 2016.

• I attended an “Atlantic Graph Searchers” meeting at Mount Saint Vincent University, Nov 11-13, 2016.

• I was on the CBC Radio program “Shift”, talking about mathematics and zombies! October 2016.

• I received a 5-year pin in recognition of my continued service to Science Atlantic, October 2016.

• My first M.Sc. student successfully (co-supervised at Dalhousie University) defended his thesis, August 2016.

• I attended and presented at the Graph Searching in Canada workshop (GRASCan) at Dalhousie University, NS, July 20-21, 2016.

• I co-chaired GRASCan 2016 (Graph Searching in Canada) Workshop; held at Dalhousie University, July 20-21, 2016.

• I attended and presented at the East Coast Combinatorics Conference (ECCC) at Mount Saint Vincent University, NS, July 18-19, 2016.

• I attended and presented in the "Cops and Robbers and Pursuit-evasion in Discrete Structures" symposium at the SIAM Discrete Mathematics Conference in Atlanta, Georgia June 6-10, 2016.

2015

• I attended a Graphs-and-Games (AARMS Collaborative Research Group) workshop held at Acadia University, Dec 5-6, 2015.

• Two of my students gave presentations at the Science Atlantic Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science conference, held at Acadia University, October 2015.

• I organized a Graphs-and-Games (AARMS Collaborative Research Group) mini-workshop held at Mount Allison University, July 29, 2015.

• I organized the East Coast Combinatorics Conference (ECCC) held at Mount Allison University, July 27-28 2015.

• Two of my students received NSERC USRA’s to fund their (2015) summer research projects.

• I recently co-organized the “Graphs, Designs, and Hypergraphs” scientific session at the CMS summer meeting in Charlottetown, June 5-8th, 2015. We were awarded funding for the session from AARMS.

• I attended GRASCan, the 3rd Graph Searching in Canada Workshop at the University of Montreal May 28-29, 2015.

• I attended and gave a talk at the 22nd Coast Combinatorics Conference in Kailua-Kona, Big Island, HI in February 2015.

2014

• I co-organized a workshop focussing on (undergraduate) student engagement at St.F.X. (July 30-31, 2014). The workshop was financially supported by the Graphs-and-Games (AARMS) Collaborative Research Group.

• I co-organized a Short Course on the 2-coloring number at Dalhousie University (May 2014). The workshop was financially supported by the Graphs-and-Games (AARMS) Collaborative Research Group.