James Currie
Professor
Department:
Mathematics and Statistics
Fields:
- Computers
- Language / Linguistics
- Mathematics
- Mathematics Education
- Philosophy / Ethics
- Statistics
- Technology
Areas of Expertise:
- Computing
- Game Theory
- History of Mathematics
- Logic
- Machine Learning
- Machine Translation
- Mathematics
- Quantum Computing
- Statistics
Languages Spoken:
- English
- French
Available To:
- Appear on radio or TV
- Appear as a public speaker
- Provide comment to media
- Write articles
- Discuss research with industry, government, and others
About:
Dr. James Currie completed his PhD work in Mathematics at the University of Calgary at the age of 25. After one year as a visiting professor at Dalhousie University, he joined Â鶹´«Ã½ in 1988.
His research has been funded continuously by NSERC for the last 25 years and he has over 65 publications in peer-reviewed journals. In 2008, he received the University's Erica & Arnold Rogers Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship. In 2009, along with Narad Rampersad and Michael Rao, he announced the solution of the long-standing mathematical problem Dejean's Conjecture.
On the teaching front, one focus for Currie has been the use of history to teach mathematics to non-scientists. He has been listed more than once on Maclean's magazine's list of "popular profs".
Media and Research Expert