Coffee: Common Room, before the colloquium at 3:30pm.
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BIO:
Richard Hoshino is a mathematics professor at Quest University Canada in
Squamish, British Columbia. Prior to his arrival at Quest in 2013,
Richard was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institute of
Informatics in Tokyo (2010-2012), and was a mathematician here in Ottawa
with the Canada Border Services Agency (2006-2010). He has published 33
research papers across numerous fields, including graph theory, marine
container risk-scoring, biometric identification, and sports tournament
scheduling.
Richard has consulted for a billion-dollar professional baseball league,
as well as three Canadian TV game shows (Qubit, Splatalot, Spin-Off), and
has worked with his undergraduate students to implement automated employee
scheduling systems for small businesses in British Columbia. He is
heavily involved in high school outreach, and continues to visit dozens of
schools each year to share his passion and love for mathematics. Richard
is also the author of "The Math Olympian", a novel that is currently
ranked #2 by GoodReads in Best Young Adult Books that Empower.
Richard holds a B.Math. from the University of Waterloo, a B.Ed. from
Queen's University, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Dalhousie University.