2022 PIMS/UBC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Award Goes to Josh Zahl

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce that Dr. Josh Zahl, is the recipient of the 2022 PIMS/UBC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Award.

Dr. Joshua Zahl is an associate professor at UBC and works in several fields of mathematical research: discrete mathematics, harmonic analysis, and geometric measure theory moving effortlessly between these fields. He has made useful and important contributions to the Kakeya problem as well as other problems in combinatorics and analysis. Zahl completed his Ph.D. in 2013 at UCLA; was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at MIT from 2013-2016; and joined the faculty at UBC in 2016. Outside of math, he explores the BC coast mountains.

PIMS UBC Site Director, Prof Brian Marcus made the announcement early in January. As the recipient of this award, Dr. Zahl will receive $1,000 and will give a 2022 PIMS/UBC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Award Colloquium in the Spring semester.