McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Jack Tisdell
DATE: Monday, July 20, 2026
TIME / PLACE: 10:00 AM / Online Defence
TITLE: Defects in optimal quantizers and problems in random quantization
CHAIR: Prof. Jerome Vetois
CO-SUPERVISOR: Prof. Rustum Choksi
CO-SUPERVISOR: Prof. Jean-Christophe Nave
INTERNAL EXAMINER: Prof. Marcin Sabok
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence of Mr. Vincent Painchaud
DATE: Monday, July 27, 2026
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 10:00am Burnside Hall, Room 1010C
Defence 10:15am Burnside Hall, Room 1104
TITLE: The canonical system approach to scaling limits of 𝜷-ensembles
McGill University DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence; Mr. Mingqi Wu
DATE: July 29, 2026
TIME / PLACE: 10:00 AM / Online Defence
TITLE: Mechanisms of Denoising and Signal Preservation in Modern Representation Learning
CHAIR: Jérôme Vétois
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Archer Yang
INTERNAL
MEMBER: Prof. Russell Steele
INTERNAL
EXAMINER: Prof. Masoud Asgharian
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
PhD Oral Defence; Mr. Alexis Leroux-LapierreDATE: August 5, 2026
TIME / PLACE: Pre-Defence 10:00 a.m. / Burnside Hall, Room 1010C
Defence 10:15 a.m. / Burnside Hall, Room 1104
TITLE: Representation theory of shifted Yangians: Asymptotic characters and Grothendieck rings
CHAIR: Prof. Jérôme Vétois
SUPERVISOR: Prof. Joel Kamnitzer
INTERNAL
