Curriculum Vitae

Benjamin B. Nasmith
Stonewall, MB
bnasmith@proton.me

Education

PhD, Mathematics. Royal Military College of Canada. 2018-2023
- Thesis: Tight Projective 5-Designs and Exceptional Structures
- Supervisors: Charles Paquette and Claude Tardif
MA, Theological Studies. Briercrest Seminary. 2010-2017
- Thesis: Cognitive Idolatry and the Trinity in Paul K. Moser’s Philosophy
- Supervisor: David Guretzki
MSc, Physics. Royal Military College of Canada. 2007-2008
- Thesis: Extending the London theory to include steady-state electric fields in superconductivity
- Supervisor: Napoleon Gauthier
BSc, Combined Honours in Mathematics and Physics. Royal Military College of Canada. 2003-2007

Aug 2025 – Present: Staff Officer NATO Flight Training in Canada, 2 Canadian Air Division Headquarters, Winnipeg, MB.
Apr 2023 – Jul 2025: Chief Standards Officer, 2 Canadian Forces Flying Training School, Moose Jaw, SK.
Apr 2022 – Mar 2023: Deputy Chief Standards Officer, 2 Canadian Forces Flying Training School, Moose Jaw, SK.
Aug 2020 – Mar 2022: Qualified Flying Instructor on the CT156 Harvard II, 2 Canadian Forces Flying Training School, Moose Jaw, SK.
Aug 2017 – Aug 2020: Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Space Science, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON.
Aug 2016 – Jul 2017: Lecturer in the Department of Physics and Space Science, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, ON.
Aug 2012 – Aug 2016: Qualified Flying Instructor on the CT156 Harvard II, 2 Canadian Forces Flying Training School, Moose Jaw, SK.
Sep 2008 – July 2012: Canadian Forces pilot training, including the Fighter Pilot Lead-In Training, Fighter Pilot Course, and Harvard II Flight Instructor Course.

2017: Graduate Excellence Award in Research, Briercrest Seminary.
2009: Governor General’s Academic Medal – Gold, Royal Military College of Canada.

“Rational Angle Sets and Tight t-Designs.” ArXiv e-print :2302.01484v1
“Octonions and the two strictly projective tight 5-designs.” Algebraic Combinatorics 5, no. 3 (2022): 401-411.
with Paul K. Moser. “Towards a Christian Philosophy of the Cross.” The Expository Times 130, no. 1 (2018): 1-12.
“Classical Electrodynamics and Absolute Simultaneity.” ArXiv e-print 1306.4897.
with N. Gauthier. “Electric Fields in Steady-State Superconductivity according to London Theory.” American Journal of Physics 76 (9): 872-877.

ALCO (2025), a GAP package providing tools for algebraic combinatorics, including implementations of octonion and Jordan algebras.

Moser, Paul K., and Benjamin Nasmith, eds. Atonement and Experience: Writings of James Denney. Pickwick, 2022.
Moser, Paul K., and Benjamin Nasmith, eds. God of Holy Love: Essays of Peter Taylor Forsyth. Pickwick, 2019.
Moser, Paul K., and Benjamin Nasmith, eds. God in Experience: Essays of Hugh Ross Mackintosh. Pickwick, 2018.

The following courses were taught at the Royal Military College in Kingston, ON.

First Year Physics Laboratory (2016-2020): a practical introduction to laboratory work.
Physics of the Space Environment (2016-2017): a senior undergraduate lecture course in space science.
Classical Mechanics, (2017-2020): a senior undergraduate lecture course in physics.
Battlefield Surveillance and Target Acquisition (Optics) (2017-2019): a professional development course supporting programs in the Applied Military Science department.
Review of College Algebra (2018-2019): a preparatory course within the Aboriginal Leadership Opportunity Year program at RMC.
Modern Physics (2018): a second year undergraduate lecture course.
Quantum Mechanics (2019): a senior undergraduate lecture course in physics.
Advanced Quantum Mechanics (2020): a senior undergraduate lecture course in physics.