University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia PIMS site office is located in the Earth Sciences Building at the University of British Columbia.
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Scientific, Summer School
UBC Mathematics Summer Reading Program
What is the SRP? The UBC Mathematics Summer Reading Program (SRP) is a four to six-week program intended for first-year and second-year undergraduates. Students will work in small groups with a graduate student or postdoctoral mentor on a reading...
Educational, Summer School
Mathematics - Number Ninjas
Calling all aspiring mathematicians! This math enrichment program invites campers to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills. The goal of this program is to convey the importance of mathematics in the real world and showcase how...
Scientific, Conference
Mini Conference on Symbolic Dynamics at UBC
Two seminar talks will be hosted, 9:30AM and 10:45AM, in each of the mornings of July 24, 25 and 26 in ESB 4133 Schedule Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Time: 9:30 AM Speaker: Brian Marcus, UBC and PIMS Title: Variations on Krieger's Embedding Theorem and a...
Scientific, Conference
Test Event
Scientific, Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Robert McCann
While Einstein’s theory of gravity is formulated in a smooth setting, the celebrated singularity theorems of Hawking and Penrose describe many physical situations in which this smoothness must eventually breakdown. In positive-definite signature...
Scientific, Summer School
UBC Mathematics Summer Reading Program
What is the SRP? The UBC Mathematics Summer Reading Program (SRP) is a four to six-week program intended for first-year and second-year undergraduates. Students will work in small groups with a graduate student or postdoctoral mentor on a reading...
Educational, Summer School
Mathematics - Number Ninjas
Calling all aspiring mathematicians! This math enrichment program invites campers to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills. The goal of this program is to convey the importance of mathematics in the real world and showcase how...
Educational, Summer School
Mathematics - Number Ninjas
Calling all aspiring mathematicians! This math enrichment program invites campers to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills. The goal of this program is to convey the importance of mathematics in the real world and showcase how...
Educational, Summer School
Mathematics - Number Ninjas
Calling all aspiring mathematicians! This math enrichment program invites campers to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills. The goal of this program is to convey the importance of mathematics in the real world and showcase how...
Educational, Public Lecture
Future Proofing Our Children
As AI advances at shocking speed, what is the future of humanity? How should people develop skills that will still be useful in a world filled with automation? The speaker, Carnegie Mellon math professor Po-Shen Loh, traveled to 100 cities last year...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Jack Hughes
Evolutionary game theory is a discipline devoted to studying populations of individuals that are subject to evolutionary pressures, and whose success generally depends on the composition of the population. In biological contexts, individuals could be...
Scientific, Conference
Mini Conference on Symbolic Dynamics at UBC
Two seminar talks will be hosted, 9:30AM and 10:45AM, in each of the mornings of July 24, 25 and 26 in ESB 4133 Schedule Wednesday, July 24, 2024 Time: 9:30 AM Speaker: Brian Marcus, UBC and PIMS Title: Variations on Krieger's Embedding Theorem and a...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG MP PDE Seminar: Gang Zhou
I will report the progress we made on the ETH approach for quantum measurements. Here E stands for Events, T stands for Trees and H for histories. I will start with presenting some basics of quantum mechanics, for example, the probabilistic nature of...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Neda Abasi
We study the family of one dimensional piecewise smooth dynamical systems in which two classic theorems are still permanent. One of them is Birkhoff Transitivity Theorem and the other one is Banks, Brooks, Cairns, Davis and Stacey Theorem. Baker like...
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.
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
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 | 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 | ||
| Communications and Event Assistant | Lisa Sammoh | lisa@pims.math.ca | (604)822-3922 | ESB4166 |
| Education Coordinator | 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 | Özgür Yilmaz | director@pims.math.ca | (604) 822-0406 | Room 4162 |
| Finance Manager | Pooja Sharma | finance@pims.math.ca | (604) 822-3782 | Room 4172 |
| Finance Manager | Rozalia Mate | rozalia@pims.math.ca | (604) 822-3782 | Room 4172 |
| Name | Original Location | In | Out |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seick Kim | Yonsei University | ||
| Perla Kfoury | University of Toulouse | ||
| Stefan Le Coz | University of Toulouse | ||
| Hui Chen | Zhejiang University of Science | ||
| Takahisa Inui | Osaka University | ||
| Rustum Choksi | McGill University |
| Name | Position | Research Interests | Supervisor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Mathav Murugan | University of British Columbia | Probability | Gordon Slade | 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 |