Experts

– Designing and developing behavior change systems and persuasive technologies such as serious games and mobile/web applications;
– Modelling the behaviour of online users in social networks and e-commerce systems;
– Data science;
– Social computing;
– Ethics and trust in persuasive technologies.

– Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning with mixture models;
– Clustering and classification;
– Computational statistics;
– Applications in medical physics, engineering, bioinformatics, and sustainability.

– Neurodegenerative disease;
– Signal transduction;
– Neurotrophin biology;
– Fly and mouse genetics.

Convex analysis and optimization, monotone operator theory, projection methods, and applications.

– Host-microbiota interactions
– Glycobiology

– Custom microwave techniques for measuring electromagnetic properties of materials;
– Low-temperature conductivity and penetration depth of unconventional superconductors;
– Complex permittivity of waste-activated sludge.

– Geographic information sciences;
– Spatial analysis and statistics;
– Wildfire ecology and management;
– Movement ecology;
– Remote sensing.

– Computational statistics with applications including fire science;
– Statistical process control;
– Statistical education.

– Combinatorial design theory and graph theory;
– History of mathematics.

– Optimal risk management strategies in neuroscience;
– Risk management in finance.

– Global biogeochemistry;
– Technical communication to scientists and non-scientists.

– Petrology, geochemistry and geologic resources;
– Prediction of the solubility, transportation and potential bioavailability of trace elements through surface processes and to establish environmentally friendly operating procedures for the mining industry.

– Biogeoclimatic control of water quality;
– Inferring hydrologic flowpath from geochemical indicators;
– Optical properties of natural waters;
– Interaction of metals and natural organic ligands;
– Scavenging of nutrients and trace elements in biogenic calcite;
– Fate and transport of endocrine disrupters.

– Studying plant metabolism using genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics;
– Discovering biosynthetic enzymes and pathways of medicinal natural products, especially anti-cancer compounds;
– Diversifying structures and functions of natural products with a strong focus on alkaloids;
– Synthetic biology/metabolic engineering of natural products biosynthesis.

– Algebraic number theory: evaluating indices of number fields of various degree, constructing monogenic number fields, factoring prime ideals, normal integral bases;
– Elliptic curves: finding parametric families of elliptic curves with non-zero ran, tau and theta congruent numbers.

Mathematical ecology and insect dispersal.

– Plant genetics and genomics in understanding cell wall development;
– Abiotic stress tolerance in plants;
– Plant-microbe interactions.

– Computational chemistry of organic, inorganic, biological, and solid-state systems;
– Non-covalent interactions;
– Oxygen-centrered radical induced damage of proteins.

– Machine/deep learning;
– Image/video processing and pattern recognition;
– Biometrics;
– Video surveillance systems.

– Metamorphic petrology;
– Tectonics & microstructure;
– Evolution of planetary lithosphere and electron-beam microscopy.

Data science and machine learning for software engineering including:
– User feedback analysis;
– Empirical studies;
– Mining Software repositories;
– Code intelligence;
– Methods for low resource languages and scientific software.

– Medical imaging, imaging processing, and translational imaging;
– MRI physics;
– Pulse sequence design.

Wildlife ecology, large mammals, conservation, deer, elk, bears, wolves, antelope, leopards, predators, human-wildlife conflict, ecology, biodiversity, road ecology, wildlife-vehicle collisions, road kill, wildlife corridors, wildlife management, science communication, citizen science, restoration, national parks, forestry, ranching, biological diversity, wild animals.

Stochastic processes and mathematical biology.

Chemistry education and public engagement

– Environmental science, management, and policy;
– Sustainability at local and global scales;
– Community resilience to natural hazards and climate change;
– Social and ecological indicators of sustainability, forest management, and conservation.

– Algorithmic and computational problems in artificial intelligence and network science;
– Applications in social media and computational biology;
– Graph theory and probabilistic method.

Biochemical aspects of dietary fats and exercise in preventing the development and complications of obesity and diabetes.

– Learning and memory;
– Central nervous system;
– Neurotrophins, neuronal activity, synaptic activity and plasticity;
– Mechanisms of persistent firing activity in the cortex.

– Gut health and immunity;
– Intestinal microbiome;
– Dietary intervention in ulcerative colitis patients;
– Gut-brain axis;
– Novel live biotherapeutic products for the treatment of gut inflammation.

– Sports analytics;
– Statistical stylometry;
– Social networks models.

– Transient absorption spectroscopy/microscopy to determine the charge carrier dynamics of materials for solar energy conversion;
– Carbon-based photocatalytic materials;
– Sustainable energy and material production;
– Water treatment and advanced oxidation processes.

– Mantle composition and evolution;
– Diamond indicator minerals;
– Lunar mantle composition;
– Volatiles in lava flows;
– Geochemical fingerprinting of gold;
– Archaeological artefacts and agrifood products;
– Elements in lava flows to determine the composition of the interior of the Earth.

– Host-microbiome interactions in wild systems;
– Microbial ecology.

– Data visualization;
– Scenario simulation.

– Environmental impact assessment;
– Nnatural resources management;
– Energy and mining development.

– Combinatorics with a focus on graph colouring problems;
– Discrete optimization with a focus on MIP/constraint programming solutions for the high-stakes testing industry.

– Nonconvex analysis;
– Derivative-free optimization;
– Bundle methods;
– Applications in road design, medical physics, and engineering.

– Microbial ecology of soil microbes;
– Role and the applications of microbes in sustainable agriculture, viticulture, and ecological restoration.

– Human-computer interaction;
– Mobile and wearable (e.g., smartwatches, smart glasses) user interfaces;
– Augmented/virtual/mixed reality;
– Information visualization, gesture interaction, and computer vision;
– Navigation interfaces, and input devices.

– Radiation oncology;
– Radiation biophysics.

– Radio, optical, and computational astronomy;
– Interstellar gas, magnetic fields, and turbulence in and around the Milky Way;
– Photoionization and radiative transfer in interstellar gas;
– High velocity clouds;
– Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME).

Effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on behaviour and population dynamics: predator-prey dynamics; extinction risks and species-at-risk legislation; wildfires and wildlife; biosolids and wildlife; climate change; birds; mammals.

– Condensed matter theory: geometrically frustrated magnetism (spin ice, spin liquid, dimer models);
– Hubbard ladders;
– Mesoscopic physics;
– Heavy fermion quantum criticality;
– Solid-state physics.

– Biogeochemistry;
– Stable isotopes;
– Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases;
– Natural and restored wetlands, lakes, soil, groundwater;
– Trace gas analysis and automation of monitoring equipment.

– Learning analytics;
– Computer science education;
– Decision making under uncertainty;
– Probabilistic user modeling;
– Human-computer interaction cost models;
– Experiment design and analysis.

– Earth and planetary geomorphology;
– Watersheds, rivers, and floodplains;
– Basin analysis;
– Fluvial biogeochemistry.

– Human-computer interaction;
– Information visualization;
– Data visualization;
– Visual analytics;
– Ubiquitous computing;
– Immersive technologies;
– Persuasive health;
– Health informatics;
– Input devices.

– Chemical and physical processes at solid surfaces;
– Phase transitions;
– Molecular computer simulations;
– Heterogeneous catalysis;
– Functional surfaces;
– Nanoscience.

– Radiation oncology;
– Raman spectroscopy;
– 3D radiation dosimetry;
– Quantum mechanics;
– Data and image processing.

– Physiology of ectomycorrhizas and roots of woody plants;
– Effects of fire and silviculture on ectomycorrhizal fungal communities;
– Carbon allocation within and between woody plants, orchard management under climate change.

– Treeline ecology;
– Abiotic controls on vegetation dynamics;
– Examination of the water-repellent soils that develop after severe wildfire, which modifies the soil micro-environment and subsequent vegetation establishment.

– Brain physics (neurophysics);
– Neural networks;
– Electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging;
– Neuroeducation.

– Neuroimmunology;
– Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases;
– Glial cell biology;
– Cellular and molecular pharmacology;
– Method development for protecting neurons from age-related deterioration;
– Signaling between different cell types of the central nervous system;
– Problem-solving skills of students and effectiveness of alternative instructional techniques.

– Effects of information use on population and community processes;
– Evolutionary ecology and population ecology of parasitic insects;
– Developing insights into the biology of parasitic insects and the dynamics of parasite-dominated communities;
– Potential applications in the area of biological control of both insect pests and introduced weeds.

– Structural geology and tectonics;
– Petrology;
– Geology of the Himalaya-Tibet-Karakorm system;
– Tectonics of Southwestern British Columbia.

– Machine learning including deep learning;
– Optical character recognition (OCR) and computer vision;
– Human-computer interaction: augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

– Database systems and data analytics including data integration;
– Analysis of large-scale scientific data sets and embedded databases for Internet of Things applications;
– Software engineering and system development.

Algebraic number theory: diophantine equations, elliptic and hyperelliptic curves, intersective polynomials.

– Single-molecule and single-cell biophysics;
– DNA-based molecular molecular devices and biosensors;
– Cancer and immune cell mechanics and mechanobiology;
– Extracellular vesicle and exosome biology/biotechnology.

– Organic chemistry;
– Biophysics and biochemistry of biological macromolecules.

– Computational mathematics, optimization and convex analysis;
– Modelling road design to minimize construction costs under safety and environmental constraints;
– Creating algorithms for computer-aided convex analysis;
– Visualizing operators in 2D, 3D, and 4D.

– Molecular, cellular, biochemical and environmental factors that regulate the quality and quantity of aromas and essential oils produced by herbal and medicinal plants;
– Identification, cloning and characterization of structural and regulatory genes that are involved in the biosynthesis, inter- and intra-cellular trafficking, secretion and storage of monoterpenes in plants cells specialized for secondary metabolite production.

Chemistry education: alternative conceptions of advanced bonding models, impacts and effectiveness of active and collaborative learning activities, affective learning outcomes.

– Design of molecular tools to study the real-time dynamics of cellular events;
– Using organic chemistry, natural products are modified to label proteins involved in cellular signaling;
– Protein-protein interactions, astrocytes communication, synapse elimination, and neurodegeneration.

– Decision support systems (model driven and data driven);
– Component-based software development;
– Creative higher education.

– Medical imaging for applications in cancer;
– Data visualization;
– Scientific computation and programming;
– Learning analytics.

– Plant chemistry and biotechnology;
– Identification, quantification, and metabolism of plant secondary metabolites, the impact of these phytochemicals on human health, and the development of technologies for mass-production of specific plant chemicals as medicines, natural health products, food additives, and functional foods.

– Artificial intelligence/machine learning with emphasis on explainable AI/ML and quantum machine learning;
– Data mining and analytics, safety and security of cyber physical systems;
– Graph theoretic analysis of complex systems;
– Decision making under uncertainty.

– Intramolecular hetero-Diels-Alder reactions of furans;
– Development of new synthetic reactions.

– Hydrogeology and vadose zone processes;
– Regional groundwater resources;
– Surface water and groundwater interactions;
– Agricultural irrigation efficiency, nitrate leaching, and greenhouse gas production;
– Acid rock drainage and mine reclamation; soil physics;
– Geoscience education.

– Animal movement, conservation, encounter theory, and evolutionary processes;
– Macro-ecology;
– Statistical ecology.

– Establishing 3D bioartificial models to aid in understanding how abnormal multicellular and multiorgan interactions contribute to lung diseases;
– Developmental biology.

– Understanding ecosystems and landscapes as complex systems in which human and biophysical processes are coupled across multiple scales of space and time;
– Incorporating complexity into natural resource management approaches;
– Regional-scale landscape modelling;
– Social-ecological networks;
– Agent and individual-based modelling approaches;
– Landscape science and scenario building.

– Industrial ecology, ecological economics;
– Sustainability assessment, measurement and management;
– Life cycle thinking, and environmental and social life cycle assessment of food;
– Feed and biomass supply chains;
– Resource efficiency;
– Social license and market access;
– Trade-based externalization of environmental and social risk.

– Geochemical oceanography and limnology;
– Mineralization of organic matter;
– Saline lakes.

– Anthropogenic climate change impact assessment and adaptation;
– Use of climate databases in assessing climate change;
– Historical climate change at North American ski resorts;
– Forecasts of future climate change at North American ski resorts.

– Identifying and understanding the drivers of biodiversity patterns in space and through time;
– Community and landscape ecology;
– Best practices in open, transparent, and reproducible research.

– Oxidative stress defences in anaerobic bacteria;
– Microbe/metal interactions (e.g. Cu, U, As) and the role of microbes in biogeochemical cycles;
– Antimicrobial peptides.

– Low-valent main group compounds;
– Small molecule activation;
– Conjugated materials.

Developing evidence-based nutrition strategies to optimize management of obesity and other chronic diseases: human energy metabolism; dietary intake; body composition; nutritional status.

– Comparative physiology, fish physiology, and metal metabolism in freshwater fish;
– Physiological adjustments in animals to changes in the quality of their environment.

– Physiology of epithelial ion transport;
– Insect toxicology;
– Insect-plant interactions;
– Metals toxicology.

– Empirical software engineering;
– Mining software repositories;
– Bug localization and prediction;
– Diversity-and social-aspects in software engineering.

– Population genomics;
– Conservation genetics;
– Molecular ecology;
– Life-history evolution.

– Hydrological effects of forest management and land use change;
– Effects of wildfire on hydrology and erosion;
– Effects of fast-growing timber plantations on stream flow (water yield and low flows);
– Analysis of paired catchment experiments.

– Deep learning;
– Computer vision and machine vision;
– Visual and aerial surveillance including drone surveillance;
– Video and image processing;
– Intelligent cameras;
– New algorithms for biomedical and emerging industrial applications;
– Agriculture automation.

– Change point analysis;
– Saddle point approximation;
– Inverse moment approximation;
– K-sample inference, and cluster analysis.

– Natural products biosynthesis, and biochemistry of secondary metabolism;
– Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry;
– Rational modification of biosynthetic pathways in bacteria to produce novel compounds with the potential to be pharmacologically relevant.

– Defect engineering;
– Silicon photonics;
– Quantum confinement;
– Ion implantation.

– Synthesis and reactivity of paramagnetic organometallic chromium compounds of relevance to catalytic carbon-carbon bond forming reactions;
– Single electron transfer reactions and electronic structure effects in synthetic organometallic chemistry.

– Scholarship of teaching and learning;
– Innovative teaching strategies designed for higher education;
– Open educational resources (OER) development;
– Secondary teacher education in mathematics and science;
– Pathophysiology;
– Motor development;
– Human anatomy and physiology;
– Bio-applications using mass spectrometry.

– Computational chemistry of iron-sulphur coordination compounds, clusters, nanoparticles, and mineral surfaces;
– Chemical structure and properties of templated carbon materials;
– Synchrotron spectroscopy of inorganic, bioinorganic, and organometallic complexes.

– Information geometry;
– Topological data analysis;
– Queueing theory and applications in telecommunication systems;
– Random walks in quarter plane and applications in probability modelling.

– Nonparametric statistics, distance metric learning, clustering, change-point analysis;
– Applications to wildfire science, behavioural finance and climate finance.

– Wild sunflower and cannabis genetics and molecular biology;
– Developmental biology;
– Evolution and ecology;
– Sustainable crops.

– Algebraic topology;
– Calculus of functors and its applications to embeddings including knots and links;
– Manifold calculus;
– Homotopy theory;
– Graph complexes;
– Open educational resources (OER) development.

– Mathematical biology and spatial ecology;
– Mathematical models of ecological systems;
– Development and analysis of mathematical and computational models;
– Cyclic predator-prey populations.

– General relativity;
– Black holes;
– String theory.

– Mixture models;
– Supervised and unsupervised learning;
– Computational statistics and biostatistics.

– Environmental change;
– Chironomid palaeoecology;
– Quaternary palaeoecology and paleoclimatology;
– Dynamics of arctic and alpine tree-line ecosystems;
– Aquatic insect ecology;
– Biomonitoring, use of aquatic insects (living and fossil) as indicators of environmental change.

– Variational analysis, convex analysis, and classical analysis;
– Optimization applications in signal processing and communications.

– Forest hydrology and ecology;
– Eco-hydrological processes;
– Forest disturbance and watershed processes;
– Cumulative hydrological impacts in large forested watersheds;
– Forest changes and carbon processes;
– Watershed ecosystems and integrated management.

– Discrete geometry;
– Realization spaces of polytopes and matroids;
– Interaction of problems in combinatorics with applied algebraic geometry and optimization;
– Equiangular lines and combinatorial problems arising from applications to digital communications.

– Enzyme guided radical-chemistry;
– Fast reaction and spectroscopic methods to probe the interplay between protein dynamics, function and structure;
– Rationale-design of biocatalysts;
– Vitamin-derived cofactors by biological systems.

– Glacial and fluvial processes;
– Landforms and landscapes;
– Environments of the quaternary, as determined by physical and biological systems.

– Plant cell biology;
– Plant organelle morphology;
– Plant cell wall synthesis.

– Analytical glycobiology: modern instrumental techniques, and developing new methods;
– Using chemical and analytical tools to investigate the functions of protein-linked glycans in cells and animals.