Dan Coombs | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Professor of Mathematics and Department Head, University of British Columbia

Dan Coombs is a Professor of Mathematics and the Head of the Mathematics Department at the University of British Columbia. He obtained his PhD in 2001 from the University of Arizona, held a postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Laboratories (2001-2003), and joined UBC in 2003. Prof. Coombs works in the field of computational immunology, addressing a wide range of problems in viral disease dynamics and HIV modelling, and in the dynamics of receptors on cell surfaces. In particular, he and his co-workers have recently developed innovative single particle tracking algorithms that have enabled improved and insightful interpretation of experimental data from cell biology.

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You will hear from our speakers about jobs in different academic institutions and in industry, developing an outstanding CV,  giving a winning job talk, writing effective application materials,  and other tips to help you get ahead.    We have...

The PIMS-UBC Math Job Forum is an annual Forum to help graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Mathematics and related areas with their job searches. The session is divided in two parts: short presentations from our panel followed by a...

Thursday November 8th 10am- 2pm Location: ESB 4133 (Lounge) To regsiter: Please send an email to ruths@pims.math.ca with subject: PISoICM2012 Attendance

This will be an informal warm-up talk for Byron Goldstein's IAM Distinguished Colloquium on Monday, October 22nd (see http://www.iam.ubc.ca/events_iam_pims_mitacs_past). I will talk about some of the basics of HIV biology, antibodies, and modelling...

This talk was originally delivered on January 31st and will now be livestreamed online on 19th March, 2020 at 4pm. To join, please follow the link here. ____ I will talk about mathematical modelling reports from around the world for the emerging...

The COVID-19 global pandemic has led to unprecedented public interest in mathematical modelling as a tool to understand the dynamics of disease spread and predict the impact of public health interventions. In this pair of talks, we will describe how...

As a disease spreads through a population, the pool of people still susceptible to the disease decreases. Eventually, it becomes unlikely that an infectious person will contact a susceptible person and as a result the number of infectious people...