Stephen Kirkland | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Associate Dean (Natural Sciences and Engineering), Faculty of Graduate Studies & Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba

Dr. Kirkland studied mathematics at the University of British Columbia (B.Sc. (Hons.), 1984) and the University of Toronto (M.Sc., 1985 and Ph.D., 1989). After holding postdoctoral positions at Queen’s University (1989-1991) and the University of Minnesota (1991-1992), Dr. Kirkland became a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Regina, where he worked from 1992 to 2009. He relocated to Ireland, and for the period 2009-2013, Dr. Kirkland was a Stokes Professor in the Hamilton Institute at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Dr. Kirkland returned to Canada in 2013, joining the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manitoba, where he served as Head for 2013-2020. He is currently an Associate Dean in the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Graduate Studies.

Dr. Kirkland’s research is in matrix theory and graph theory, with particular interest in the theory and applications of nonnegative matrices, spectral graph theory, and combinatorial matrix theory. He has published upwards of 160 refereed journal publications, conference proceedings, and book chapters, as well as one book and three edited volumes. Since 2006 he has been an Editor in Chief of the journal Linear and Multilinear Algebra, and he serves on two other editorial boards. He was president of the International Linear Algebra Society for the period 2008-2014, and in 2008 he received the University of Regina Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Research.

Dr. Kirkland has been a member of the PIMS Board of Directors since 2015.

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