OGMC

June 7 to 9, 2024
at the University of Waterloo

Registration is open from April 10 to May 15, 2024

Welcome!

The Ontario Graduate Mathematics Conference (OGMC) is a new conference meant for all Ontario graduate students in any mathematical field. There will be plenary talks from keynote speakers, talks from your fellow students, as well as food and social events!

Plenary Speakers

Ayesha Ali

University of Guelph

Rahim Moosa

University of Waterloo

Michele Mosca

University of Waterloo

Mary Pugh

University of Toronto

This year, we're excited to host OGMC at the University of Waterloo.

History of OGMC

The inaugural Ontario Graduate Mathematics Conference (OGMC) was initiated by William Verreault from the University of Toronto (UofT) and Jérémy Champagne from the University of Waterloo (UWaterloo). Spearheaded by the UWaterloo Women in Mathematics (WiM) committee, the conference was jointly organized by WiM and the OGMC Central and Local Committees. We also received strong support from the UWaterloo Math Graduate Office and the Math Communications and Events team.

Thanks to the generous financial support from the UWaterloo Faculty of Mathematics and other esteemed sponsors, WiM and the OGMC Central and Local Committees were thrilled to expand the participant capacity from 100 to 150. Despite the increased capacity, we had to close registration ten days early due to the overwhelming interest, quickly reaching maximum capacity. This showed the high demand for our conference among math graduate students in Ontario, proving its value and importance in the academic community.

WiM and the OGMC Central and Local Committees are excited to build on this success by organizing even more events to support and inspire the mathematics community in the future.

Acknowledgements

WiM and the OGMC Central and Local Committees would like to acknowledge the strong support from the UWaterloo Faculty of Mathematics, Office of Vice President Research and International, Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-racism, Institute of Quantum Computing, Graduate Studies Endowment Fund, the UofT Mathematics Department, the Perimeter Institute, the Fields Institute, and the Mathematics Society of UWaterloo (MathSoc). We thank Dr. Sue Ann Campbell (Associate Dean of Research) and Dr. Christiane Lemieux (Associate Dean of Operations and Academic) for helping us recruit our amazing plenary speakers, and Dr. Hans De Sterck (AM Chair), Dr. Chaitanya Swamy (C&O Chair), Dr. Raouf Boutaba (CS Director), Dr. Martin Karsten (CS Associate Director), Dr. David McKinnon (PM Chair) and Dr. Changbao Wu (SAS Chair) for their kind assistance in registration when WiM needed help. Finally, we are incredibly grateful to the UWaterloo Mathematics Graduate Office (MGO) led by Dr. Bertrand Guenin and the Mathematics Communications and Events team (the Comms team) led by Dr. Jon Parsons. We especially want to thank Jack Rehder and Udaya Wettasinghe from the Dean's office, Fiona McAlister from the Comms team, Caroline Bhaskar from the MGO, and Lis D'Alessio and Yanqi Gao from WiM for their tremendous assistance in organizing the conference.