Matheus Grasselli - McMaster University

Matheus Grasselli is the Sharcnet Chair in Financial Mathematics and co-director of PhiMac, the financial mathematics laboratory at McMaster University.  After obtaining a doctorate in mathematical physics from Kings College London, he has been working in mathematical finance and is an experienced instructor of undergraduate and graduate mathematics, supervising numerous research projects in both theoretical and practical aspects of finance, risk management, and investment strategies.  Grasselli has published many research papers, contributed to texts and articles, and is a regular speaker in both academic and industrial conferences around the world.

Dmitry Pelinovsky - McMaster University

Dmitry E. Pelinovsky has obtained his Ph.D. at Monash University (Australia) in 1997. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto in 1998--2000. He is now an Associate Professor at McMaster University. He has taught over twenty undergraduate and graduate courses on linear algebra, numerical methods, differential equations, and mathematical physics. He wrote two coursewares published by the McMaster University Publishers in 2002 and 2005. His research topics deal with nonlinear differential equations, dynamical systems, spectral theory, and numerical analysis. He is an author of over 110 peer-reviewed publications in journals on applied mathematics and mathematical physics and over 20 review articles in editorial books, journals and the Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science (Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Books Inc., New York, 2005). He has served as the guest editor of the special issue of the journal Chaos (American Institute of Physics, 2005). His research and teaching activities can be browsed at http://dmpeli.math.mcmaster.ca.