University of British Columbia | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

The University of British Columbia PIMS site office is located in the Earth Sciences Building at the University of British Columbia.

The University of British Columbia PIMS site office also hosts the PIMS central offices. These are located on the 4th floor of the Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall). If using the elevator, our offices will be directly across when you get to the 4th floor. If using the main staircase, the offices will be to your right once you reach the 4th floor.

What is the SRP? The UBC Mathematics Summer Reading Program (SRP) connects small groups of first-year and second-year undergraduates with a graduate student or postdoctoral mentor for to learn some advanced mathematics beyond the undergraduate...

ELMACON is an annual math contest for students in grades 5, 6, and 7. Students tackle hard mathematical questions in an competitive environment to determine who will take home trophies and prizes. The contest is designed to be challenging but fun. It...

The Spring Time in Mathematical Quantum Physics workshop gathers leading experts and emerging researchers to explore analytical and topological aspects of many-body quantum mechanics. Discussions will cover topics such as the effective macroscopic...

The Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture relates special values of certain L-functions to period integrals on classical groups. Jacquet and Rallis proposed an approach through the relative trace formula, reducing the problem to two conjectures: a fundamental...

Many of the words that we use to describe biological disease are often also used to describe cyber systems (e.g. virus, infected). The overall goal of my research in this area is to see how far we can push this metaphor and what we can learn about...

Intersection theory studies the Chow ring, an algebraic structure whose elements correspond to subvarieties of a variety X, with the ring product reflecting the intersection of subvarieties in X. Thanks to the foundational work of Fulton and...

In this talk we discuss joint work with Fatma Çiçek on establishing asymptotic formulae with power saving error term for first and second moments of Rankin-Selberg L-functions L(1/2+iμ,f⊗g) where f varies over newforms of conductor pn with p being a...

I will review some aspects of degeneration technique in curve counting problems via Gromov-Witten and Donaldson-Thomas theories. This has been one of the major tools in developments in both theories and computing the invariants. I will then talk...

I will describe an approach to constructing a compact moduli space of hyperplane arrangements use logarithmic and tropical geometry.

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Denoising Diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling. Conceptually, these methods define a transport mechanism from a noise distribution to a data distribution. Recent advancements have extended this framework to define transport maps...

Following a vaccine inoculation or disease exposure an immune response develops in time, where the description of its time evolution poses an interesting problem in dynamical systems. The principal goal of theoretical immunology is to construct...

In this talk we study interacting fermions on a discrete finite lattice subject to a homogeneous magnetic field at positive temperature. One prime example of such systems is the Hofstadter-Hubbard model. We show that the magnetization is equal to the...

Since defending my PhD in the UBC Mathematics Department in 2023, I have worked as a sessional instructor both at UBC and at Corpus Christi College, which is one of UBC’s affiliate colleges, located at the northeast corner of campus. At UBC, I taught...

Viral infections are social processes. Viral replication requires shared gene products that can be used by multiple viral genomes within the same cell, and hence act as public goods. This gives rise to viral cheats, a type of molecular parasite...

In 1966, Tate proposed the Artin-Tate conjectures, which expresses special values of zeta function associated to surfaces over finite fields. Conditional on the Tate conjecture, Milne–Ramachandran formulated and proved similar conjectures for smooth...

Let X be an isotropic unimodal L\'{e}vy jump process on ℝ d . We develop probabilistic methods which in many cases allow us to determine whether X satisfies the elliptic Harnack inequality (EHI), by looking only at the jump kernel of X , and its...

Mathematical modeling, when combined with diverse epidemiological datasets, provides valuable insights for understanding and controlling infectious diseases. In this talk, I will present a series of case studies demonstrating how the synergy between...

Conifold transitions are a mechanism in which a Calabi-Yau 3-fold is deformed into another by contracting curves and smoothing out the resulting conical singularities. Reid's Fantasy conjectures that all Calabi-Yau 3-folds can be linked by a sequence...

Given a graph G, its genus distribution is the sequence whose k-th term is the number of 2-cell embeddings of G in the orientable surface of genus k. The Log-Concavity Genus Distribution (LCGD) Conjecture states that the genus distribution of every...

Directions

The PIMS offices are located on the 4th floor of the Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall). If using the elevator, our offices will be directly across when you get to the 4th floor. If using the main staircase, the offices will be to your right once you reach the 4th floor.

Airport to PIMS UBC by Bus

From Vancouver Airport (YVR), take the Canada Line Skytrain to Broadway City Hall Station. Get off the platform and walk up to street level. Cross the street and you should see the #99Bline UBC stop outside the Lululemon store. You can take this bus all the way out to UBC. Detailed route information is available through translink's route planner or via google maps. See translink's fare page for up to date prices.

Airport to PIMS UBC by car

To drive from Vancouver Airport (YVR) to UBC, follow signs for Vancouver City Center when leaving the airport. After crossing the Arthur Laing bridge, follow 70th avenue/Marine Drive all the way out to UBC's Point Grey campus. The PIMS offices are in the Earth Science Building on Main Mall which doesn't permit vehicular traffic. The nearest parking lot (or drop off point for Taxis) is on West Mall near the West Parkade at the intersection of West Mall and Bio. Sciences Road (see this map).

Downtown Vancouver to PIMS UBC by car

When leaving Downtown Vancouver, follow signs for UBC (see this map).

Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal to PIMS UBC by car

Follow directions for Vancouver airport until you reach the City of Vancouver, then follow the directions above for travelling from the airport.

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US Border to PIMS UBC by car

Follow directions for Vancouver until you reach the City of Vancouver, then follow the directions above for travelling to PIMS from the airport. Please make sure you have the correct travel documents and follow instructions

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Travelling between UBC and SFU by bus

There are many public transit options for travel between UBC and SFU but please note the universities are at opposite ends of Vancouver (SFU is actually in Burnaby) and travel can take an hour or more. Visit Translink for more travel options.

Staff

Position	Name	Email	Phone #	Office
PIMS Site Director - University of British Columbia	Brian Marcus	marcus@math.ubc.ca	+1 (604) 328-1471	Math Building 218
Chief Operations Officer	Denise Feighan	denise@pims.math.ca	(604) 822-1522	Room 4158
Co-Director International	Gabriel Paternain	international@pims.math.ca
Technology Manager	Ian Allison	iana@pims.math.ca	(778) 991-1522	Room 4126
Program and Events Manager	Joanne Jiang	programs@pims.math.ca	(604) 822-3611	Room 4168
Communications Manager	Krysten Casumpang	communications@pims.math.ca	(604) 822-0406	Room 4162
Communications and Event Assistant	Lisa Sammoh	lisa@pims.math.ca	(604)822-3922	ESB4166
PIMS Education Coordinator, University of British Columbia	Melania Alvarez	melania@pims.math.ca	(604) 822-0404	Room 4164
Executive Assistant	Oscar Cetnarowski	executive-assistant@pims.math.ca	(604) 822-3922	ESB4173
Director, Professor of Mathematics University of British Columbia	Özgür Yilmaz	director@pims.math.ca	(604) 822-0406	Room 4162
Finance Manager	Pooja Sharma	finance@pims.math.ca	(604) 822-3782	Room 4172

Name	Original Location	In	Out
Seick Kim	Yonsei University	17 January 2022	22 January 2022
Perla Kfoury	University of Toulouse	07 October 2021	27 October 2021
Stefan Le Coz	University of Toulouse	07 October 2021	29 October 2021
Hui Chen	Zhejiang University of Science	01 September 2021	01 September 2022
Takahisa Inui	Osaka University	01 September 2021	01 September 2022
Rustum Choksi	McGill University	07 August 2021	31 December 2021

Name	Position	Research Interests	Supervisor	Year
Joshua P Turner	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia	Algebraic Geometry, Topology, and Combinatorics	Sabin Cautis	2025
Federico Trinca	PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia	Differential geometry & PDE	Sebastien Picard	2024
Wenjun Zhao	PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia	Optimal Transportation	Young-Heon Kim	2024
Jakwang Kim	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia	Statistics	Young-Heon Kim	2023
Lucas Teyssier	PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia	Probability Theory & Stochastic Processes	Jonathan Hermon	2023
Paul Péringuey	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia	Number Theory	Greg Martin	2023
Sarah Dijols	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia	Representation Theory	Julia Gordon	2023
Gai Guodong	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia	Fluid Mechanics	Anthony Wachs	2022
Nabarun Deb	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia	Optimal Transportation	Young-Heon Kim	2022
Nicholas Rouse	PIMS Postdoctoral Researcher, University of British Columbia	Low Dimension Topology	Ben Williams	2022
Timon Salar Gutleb	PIMS Postdoctoral Researcher, University of British Columbia	Numerical Analysis	Christoph Ortner	2022
Anirudh Asuri Mukundan	Postdoctoral Researcher	Fluid Mechanics	Anthony Wachs	2021
Evan Miller	Postdoctoral Researcher	Partial Differential Equations	Tai-Peng Tsai	2021
Wenzhao Chen	Postdoctoral Researcher	Manifolds and Cell Complexes	Liam Watson	2021
Babru Joshi	University of British Columbia	High Dimensional Data Analysis	Özgür Yilmaz	2019
Brian Freidin	Postdoctoral Researcher, University of British Columbia	Differential geometry	Jingyi Chen	2019
Hugo Lavenant	University of British Columbia	Partial Differential Equations	Young-Heon Kim	2019
Thomas Budzinski	University of British Columbia	Probability		2019
Arthur Ghigo	University of British Columbia	Fluid Mechanics	Anthony Wachs	2018
Jishnu Ray	University of British Columbia	Number Theory	Sujatha Ramdorai	2018
Jongchon Kim	University of British Columbia	Fourier Analysis	Malabika Pramanik	2018
Yifan Sun	University of British Columbia	Computer Science	Michael Friedlander	2018
Fei Hu	University of British Columbia	Geometric Topology	Zinovy Reichstein	2017
Nguyen Lam	University of British Columbia	Partial Differential Equations	Nassif Ghoussoub	2016
Nicolau Sarquis Aiex		Geometric Analysis	Jingyi Chen	2016
Tobias Huxol	University of British Columbia	Geometric Analysis	Ailana Fraser	2016
Abbas Mehrabian	University of British Columbia	Optimization	Nick Harvey	2015
Justin Tzou	University of British Columbia	Applied Partial Differential Equations	Michael Ward	2015
Richárd Balka	University of British Columbia	Probability	Ed Perkins	2015
Duncan R. Hewitt	University of British Columbia	Fluid Mechanics	Neil Balmforth	2014
Khoa Dang Nguyen	University of Calgary	Diophantine geometry and algebraic dynamics	Dragos Ghioca	2014