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.

On May 25th, Math Challengers and ELMACON are inviting volunteers to come to UBC for a workshop on creating new problems for these two contests. For over 20 years, these contests have challenged students with creative and innovative questions, aiming...

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...

We'll talk about a piece of mathematics bringing together number theory (Ivan Niven's subject), geometry, and dynamical systems, that exemplify many of the things I love about math - community, diversity, collaboration, beautiful images, and an...

The 2024 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT 2024) will take place at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, from June 2 - 5, 2024. This will be the 18th bi-annual Canadian Workshop on Information Theory. Similar to previous...

The “Comparative Prime Number Theory” symposium is one of the highlight events organized by the PIMS-funded Collaborative Research Group (CRG) “ L-functions in Analytic Number Theory”. It is a one-week event taking place on the UBC campus in...

This summer school provides the mathematical background to recognize Koszul duality in representation theory. The school is especially oriented toward applications in the local Langlands program, with an emphasis on real groups. As Koszul duality...

The University Of British Columbia is pleased to welcome undergraduates in mathematics to the 2024 Canadian Undergraduate Conference from the 8th to the 12th of July at UBC's Vancouver campus. Take the opportunity to present your research, learn from...

The Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is thrilled to announce our upcoming Girls in Data Science Camp this summer. This is an excellent opportunity for students to explore the world of data science and statistics...

Given a prime power q≡1(mod4), the Paley graph of order q is the graph defined over 𝔽q (the finite field with q elements), such that two vertices are adjacent if and only if their difference is a square in 𝔽q. A clique in the Paley graph over 𝔽q is a...

Reaction-diffusion systems serve as paradigms to describe ubiquitous pattern formation phenomena arising from natural science and social science such as biology, ecology, finance,etc., and have been extensively studied over the past several decades...

This work proposes and analyzes an immune-structured population model of tilapia subject to Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV) disease. The model incorporates within-host dynamics, used to describe the interaction between the pathogen, the immune system and...

After a brief introduction on the theory of p-adic groups complex representations, I will explain why tempered and generic Langlands parameters are open. I will further derive a number of consequences, in particular for the enhanced genericity...

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. See the UBC Science Rendezvous Page for activities taking place at UBC.

The quantum Bruhat graph is introduced by Brenti-Fomin-Postnikov to study structure constants of the quantum cohomology ring of the flag variety, with very rich combinatorial structures. In this talk, we provide an explicit formula for the minimal...

Percolation on a graph is a random process that divides the edges into two groups: open and closed. Events such as "vertices v and w are connected via a path of open edges" occur within this process. We investigate the dependencies between these...

In this talk I will describe some properties of Meinhardt's model of sidebranching. This is a four-species reaction-diffusion model dating from 1976 describing the interaction of four fields, the concentrations of an activator, an inhibitor, the...

Every group admits a faithful unitary representation on some Hilbert space. In other words, every group can be realized concretely as symmetries on a Hilbert space. From these representations we can construct certain operator algebras known as C*...

Translational tiling is a covering of a space (such as Euclidean space) using translated copies of one building block, called a "translational tile'', without any positive measure overlaps. Can we determine whether a given set is a translational tile...

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

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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
Technology Manager	Ian Allison	iana@pims.math.ca	(778) 991-1522	Room 4126
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	Rozalia Mate	rozalia@pims.math.ca	(604) 822-3782	Room 4172
Program and Communications Manager	Ruth Situma	ruths@pims.math.ca	(604) 822-3611	Room 4168

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
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