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CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION • January 2006: PhD in Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. Dissertation: ”Partially Ordered Monoids of Operators on Classes of Algebras”. Supervisor: Dr Ross Willard. • August 1999: MSc in Mathematics, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. Supervisor: Dr Rozalia Sz. Madarasz. • May 1995: BSc in Theoretical Mathematics and its Applications, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. POSITIONS HELD • 9/2006-9/2008. Assistant Professor (limited term faculty position), Department of Mathematics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. • 9/2000-9/2006. Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. • 9/1995-8/2000. Teaching and Research Assistant, Institute for Mathematics, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. HONORS • OGS (Ontario Graduate Scholarship): amount awarded $15,000. Period held: 2003/04. Canada. • OGS (Ontario Graduate Scholarship): amount awarded $15,000. Period held: 2001/02. Canada. • University of Waterloo Thesis Completion Award: amount awarded $5,000. Period held: 2005. Canada. • University of Waterloo Entrance Award: amount awarded $3,000. Period held: 2000. Canada. RESEARCH INTERESTS Universal Algebra, study of varieties of algebras, operators on classes of algebras, partially ordered monoids generated by operators on classes of algebras. Mathematics Subject Classification Codes: 06F05, 68Q99, 08B99. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1. Ryerson University: Instructor Calculus I (MTH140); fall 2006, winter 2007, fall 2007. Calculus II (MTH240); winter 2008. Linear Algebra (MTH141); fall 2006, winter 2007, winter 2008. Modern Mathematics I (MTH131) Elementary introduction to calculus and linear algebra for science students; fall 2007. 1

Modern Mathematics II (MTH231) Advanced calculus and linear algebra for science students; winter 2007, summer 2007, winter 2008. 2. University of Waterloo: • Instructor Algebra for Honors Mathematics (MATH 135); fall 2002, winter 2003, fall 2003. Applied Linear Algebra 1 (MATH 125); spring 2003, spring 2004. Introduction to Group Theory (PMATH 336); winter 2004. Introduction to Mathematical Logic (PMATH 330); winter 2006. Elementary Number Theory (PMATH 340) ; winter 2006. • Teaching Assistant (Several semesters fall 2000 -fall 2004) Introduction to Mathematical Logic (PMATH 330); Mathematical Logic (PMATH 432) Fields and Galois Theory (PMATH 442). 3. University of Novi Sad: Teaching Assistant (Several semesters fall 1995 -spring 2000) Mathematics for Agriculture students. Introduction to Mathematical Logic. Universal Algebra. PUBLICATIONS 1. Tasi´ c B., ”On the Partially Ordered Monoid Generated by the Operators H, S, Pu , Pf ”, submitted to Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 14 pages. 2. Lawrence J., Tasi´ c B., ”HSP 6= SHP S for Commutative Rings with Identity”, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Vol 134, No 4: 943-948. 3. Tasi´ c B., ”A Note on Homomorphic Images, Subalgebras and Various Products”, Algebra Universalis 52 (2004) 431-438. 4. Tasi´ c B., ”On the Partially Ordered Monoid Generated by the Class Operators H, S, P , Ps ”, Journal of Algebra 245 No1 (2001) 1-19. 5. Masulovi´c D., Tasi´ c B., ”Operators on Classes of Coalgebras” Theoretical Computer Science 269 No1-2 (2001) 419-431. 6. Tasi´ c B., ”Partially Ordered Monoids Generated by the H, S, P , and H, S, Pf are Isomorphic” Semigroup Forum, 62 (2001) 485-490. 7. Madarasz Sz. R., Tasi´ c B., ”On the Partially Ordered Semigroup Generated by the Class Operators I, R, H, S, P ”, Order, 18 (2001) 49-60. 8. Madarasz Sz. R., Masulovi´c D., Tasi´ c B., ”Strong Retracts of Unary Algebras”, Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal 51 (126) (2001) 205-212. 2

9. Stojakovi´c Z., Tasi´ c B., ”A Generalization of Schroder Quasigroups”, Utilitas Mathematica, 58 (2000) 225-235. SELECTED CONFERENCES AND TALKS Invited Speaker: Mathematical Seminar at the Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany, February 1999. Talks at Selected Conferences: 1. Arbeitstagung Allgemeine Algebra 74 = AAA 74, June 2007, Tampere, Finland. 2. Logic Colloquium, July 2004, Torino, Italy. 3. Canadian Mathematical Society, Winter Meeting December 2003, Vancouver, Canada. 4. Lattices, Universal Algebra and Applications , May 2003, Lisbon, Portugal. 5. Conference on Universal Algebra and Lattice Theory, July 2002, Szeged, Hungary. 6. 963 AMS Meeting, March 2001, Columbia, South Carolina, USA. 7. Arbeitstagung Allgemeine Algebra 61 = AAA 61, February 2001, Darmstadt, Germany. 8. 6th Barcelona Logic Meetings, July 2000, Barcelona, Spain. 9. Arbeitstagung Allgemeine Algebra 60 = AAA 60, June 2000, Dresden, Germany. 10. LUATCS99 (First South African Summer School and Workshop on Logic, Universal Algebra and Theoretical Computer Science), December 1999,Johanesbourgh, South Africa. 11. Conference in Algebra, August 1999, Budapest, Hungary. 12. Ordered Sets, July 1999, Warsaw, Poland. 13. Arbeitstagung Allgemeine Algebra 57 = AAA 57, February 1999 Potsdam, Germany. 14. Summer School on General Algebra and Ordered Sets, August 1998, Milonov, Czech Republic. 15. VIII International Conference of Algebra and Logic, September 1998, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. LANGUAGES English: fluent (written and spoken). French: fair. Russian: scientific reading. Native: Serbo-Croatian. COMPUTER SKILLS LaTeX, Windows, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel. MEMBERSHIP American Mathematical Society.

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