About Me
About Me
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I am Hermie Monterde (she/her). I completed my PhD math at the University of Manitoba, where I was awarded the Governor Generals Gold Medal and the Distinguished Dissertation Prize for 2026. I was supervised by Dr. Steve Kirkland and Dr. Sarah Plosker. Currently, I am a PIMS-Simons postdoctoral fellow for 2025-2027 at the University of Regina working with Dr. Karen Meagher. I am also an NSERC Canada Postdoctoral Research Award holder for 2026-2028 (which I plan to take up at UWaterloo, cross fingers!).
My research interests lie in the intersection of combinatorics, linear algebra, and quantum information theory, particularly in the applications of algebraic graph theory and combinatorial matrix analysis to quantum information processing. My primary interests are quantum walks, graph spectra and eigenvectors, combinatorical matrices, matrix decomposition problems, and inverse eigenvalue problem for graphs. You will find more here.
I am a member of the Discrete Mathematics Research Group at URegina. I led a PIMS First-Year Interest Group on Quantum Walks. I organized conferences in discrete mathematics, linear algebra, applied mathematics and theoretical physics. I am involved in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) initiatives, especially in graduate student rights, gender equity, migrant justice and SOGIESC advocacy. Since 2022, I have been organizing the 05C50 Online.
Here is my CV as of Oct 2026.
Personal news!
Personal news!
[AWARD] I have been awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal 2026 at the University of Manitoba! This is the most prestigious award a graduate student in Canada can receive for achieving the highest academic standing at the graduate level. See the article at UMToday!
[AWARD] I have been awarded the Distinguished Dissertation Prize 2026 at the University of Manitoba for my dissertation entitled Quantum pure state transfer. See the article at UMToday!
[NETWORKING EVENT] I have been selected to participate at the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany as one of the 200 Young Researchers across the world. See you in Heidelberg this Sep 13-18, 2026!
[SEMINAR TALK] I will be speaking (virtually) in the PIMS Emergent Research Seminar Series this Oct 7, 2026 on my ongoing research on continuous quantum walks as a PIMS-Simons postdoctoral fellow. To watch the talk, you may register via the link!
[CONTRIBUTED SESSION] Our scientific session on Eigenvalues and graphs (coorganized with Dr. Karen Meagher) for the upcoming CMS Winter Meeting 2026 has been approved! See you in Montreal on Dec 11-14, 2026!
[PLENARY TALK] I will be giving a plenary talk in the 3rd International Conference on Graph Theory and Combinatorics (ICGTC 2026) this Dec 10-11, 2026 on open problems in continuous quantum walks. Please register via the link!
[INVITED SESSION] I have been invited to organize a minisymposium called Quantum Graph Theory in the upcoming Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics (CanaDAM) Conference 2027. See you in Kelowna, BC on June 14-18, 2027!
[GRANT] Our application for the PIMS-BIRS Team-Up entitled Spectral Theory Beyond Regular Graphs has been accepted! This is a focused research group with Aida Abiad, Zilin Jiang, Hitesh Kumar, Shivaram Pragada, and Mike Tait, and will be held at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff Alberta on Aug 29-Sep 12, 2027.
Upcoming meetings
Upcoming meetings
Participant, The 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Germany, Sep 13-18, 2026
Seminar speaker, Quantum walks: theory and applications, PIMS Emergent Research Seminar Series 2026, Oct 7 (virtual)
Plenary speaker, Open problems in continuous quantum walks, 3rd International Conference on Graph Theory and Combinatorics (ICGTC) Dec 10-11, 2026
Organizer, Scientific Session on Eigenvalues and graphs, CMS Winter Meeting 2026, Dec 11-14
Organizer, Invited Minisymposium on Quantum Graph Theory, Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics (CanaDAM) Conference 2027, June 14-18
Organizer, Spectral Theory Beyond Regular Graphs - PIMS-BIRS Team-Up, Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Aug 29-Sep 12, 2027
Upcoming EDI/outreach events
Upcoming EDI/outreach events
Advocacy for Inclusion in Mathematics across Canada, CMS Winter Meeting 2026, Montreal, Canada, Dec 11-14
Contact
Contact
Email: Hermie (dot) Monterde (at) uregina (dot) ca
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