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) 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...
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Spring Time in Mathematical Quantum Physics
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...
Educational
Science Rendezvous 2025
Science Rendezvous is a FREE festival that takes science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) research and innovation out of the lab and onto the street. Departments and units from the Faculty of Science at UBC will be participating at...
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Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM) 2025
Invited Minisymposia: IM1: Descriptive combinatorics ( Anton Bernshteyn, UCLA and Felix Weilacher, UC Berkeley) IM2: Pursuit-evasion games on graphs ( Anthony Bonato, Toronto Metropolitan University) IM3: How Many? The Art and Craft of Counting (...
Scientific, Summer School
2025 PIMS-CRM Summer School in Probability
Event Organizers Gordon Slade University of British Columbia Omer Angel University of British Columbia Louigi Addario-Berry McGill University Mathav Murugan University of British Columbia Course Descriptions Main course: Tom Hutchcroft Title...
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Math Summer School for Elementary School Teachers
Teachers are expected to attend from 9:00 to 12:30 every weekday and to work on their own at home for another half an hour each day. They will be paid a $1,200 stipend upon completion of the program. Registration is now open, please see the...
Educational, Summer School
Girls in Data Science Camp
This camp is offered for girls and other gender minorities in grades 8-12. Please complete the registration form and pay the $20 registration fee to confirm your spot in the camp. Mentors: Sky Sheng SCHEDULE DAY TOPICS Day 1 Introduction to data...
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Joint PIMS-ICMS event - Big Data before Data Science
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Test Event
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Additional Accommodation - Spring Time in Mathematical Quantum Physics
Fee Structure Room Rate: $240 CAD/night
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Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Katharina Eichinger
Lipschitz transport maps between two measures are useful tools for transferring analytical properties, such as functional inequalities. The most well-known result in this field is Caffarelli’s contraction theorem, which shows that the optimal...
Scientific, Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Arnaud Doucet
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...
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UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry - Topology Seminar: Ben Young
This will be an introduction to the single- and double-dimer models, which arise in many places in mathematics (including in equivariant localization calculations of enumerative invariants).
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry - Topology Seminar: Claudius Zibrowius
What has homological mirror symmetry ever done for you? I will give my personal answer to that question and discuss joint work in progress with Liam Watson and Artem Kotelskiy concerning the behaviour of Khovanov homology under Conway mutation.
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UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry - Topology Seminar: Jonathan Wise
I will describe an approach to constructing a compact moduli space of hyperplane arrangements use logarithmic and tropical geometry.
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UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry - Topology Seminar: Amin Gholampour
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...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry - Topology Seminar: Toni Annala
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...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG-MP-PDE Seminar: John Man Shun Ma
In this talk we discuss two backward uniqueness theorems for extrinsic geometric flow of possibly non-compact hypersurfaces in general ambient complete Riemannian manifolds. These are applicable to a wide range of extrinsic geometric flow, including...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Man-Chun Lee
In this talk, we will discuss how Ricci flow smoothing can be used to produce expanding Ricci solitons coming out of a metric cone, when the curvature is non-negative. We will discuss how its relation to problem in Hamilton-Lott pinching conjecture...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Huang Liding
The Calabi-Yau theorem says that given any smooth representative Φ of the first Chern class, there exists a unique K\”ahler metric ω cohomologous to α such that Ricci(ω)=Φ. It is natural to investigate whether similar results hold when the manifolds...
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 | (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 | ||
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |