Anthony Bonato


I am a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Toronto Metropolitan University. My research interest is in graph theory, with applications to real-world complex networks (social, banking, and adversarial networks, machine learning on networks, community structure and modeling) and pursuit-evasion games on graphs (Cops and Robbers, the Localization game, and graph burning and cooling). My research is supported by grants from NSERC, and I've won several awards for my research and graduate supervision, as outlined in my CV. Taught courses at six universities, including in Ireland and Cameroon.

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Latest News


My latest book, Dots and Lines: Hidden Networks in Social Media, AI, and Nature, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in May 2025.

I serve on the PIMS and AARMS Scientific Review panels, as well as on NSERC and Fields Institute committees. In the past, I've served on the NSERC Math-Stats Evaluation Group and the BIRS Advisory Board.

My fifth book An Invitation to Pursuit-Evasion Games and Graph Theory is available at the AMS Bookstore.

I've been elected to the CMS Board of Directors as Director-Ontario.

Take a look at my books on graph theory and networks: An Invitation to Pursuit-Evasion Games and Graph Theory, Limitless Minds: Interviews with Mathematicians, Graph Searching Games and Probabilistic Methods, The Game of Cops and Robbers on Graphs and A Course on the Web Graph.

Upcoming Conferences and Talks


I will be speaking at 15th Nordic Combinatorial Conference on 16-18 June 2025, Reykjavik, Iceland.

I'm speaking at the SIAM-CAIMS Joint Meeting in Montreal, Canada, July 28-Aug 1, 2025.

I am a keynote speaker at the LGBTQ+inSTEM Conference in Toronto, June 4-6.

My book launch for my new book DOTS AND LINES will be held at The Hyde in downtown Ottawa on May 24, 2025.

I'm co-chairing Graph Searching in Canada (GRASCan) at the University of Ottawa in May 2025.

I'm organizing and speaking in an invited minisymposium at CanaDAM'25 in Ottawa in May.

I'm a plenary speaker at the 34th Cumberland Conference at Auburn University in May 2025.

I'm giving an invited talk in the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Colloquium in January 2025.

I'm on the program committee for 20th Workshop on Modelling and Mining Networks (WAW 2025) in Latvia.

I'm spoke at and was on the program committee for the Complex Networks 2024 conference in Instanbul, Turkey.