Simon Fraser University

The Simon Fraser University PIMS site office is located in the Technology and Science Complex (TASC) 2 building on the Burnaby campus of Simon Fraser University (Map).

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Simon Fraser University
Scientific, Conference
SFU Statistical Learning for Large Scale Data Conference
June 21, 2024
Simon Fraser University
The SFU Statistical Learning for Large Scale Data conference aims to promote the presentation and discussion on the latest progress in statistical learning for large-scale data. It empowers organizations and researchers to harness the vast amount of...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU-UBC Applied Mathematics Day
April 18, 2024
Simon Fraser University
The event will be a half-day event at SFU Harbour Center, featuring three speakers: Professor Giang Tran, U. Waterloo; Associate Professor Mirands Holmes-Cerfon, UBC; and Professor Jingwei Hu, U. Washington. There will also be a poster session...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Amarpreet Rattan
March 5, 2024
Simon Fraser University
On Feb 13, J. Campion Loth gave the Discrete Math seminar on "Symmetry of Star Factorisations", where he focused on the combinatorial aspects of these objects and related factorisation problems. In this talk, we will look at these objects, which I...
Educational, Conference
Changing the Culture 2024
May 17, 2024
The annual Changing the Culture Conference, organized and sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, brings together mathematicians, mathematics educators and school teachers from all levels to work together towards narrowing...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-CORDS SFU Operations Research Seminar: Charles Audet
March 14, 2024
Simon Fraser University
The topic of this talk is on Blackbox optimization (BBO), the study of applications, attributes, and solutions of optimization problems in which the values of one or more of the functions defining the problem are provided through blackboxes. The Mesh...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS-CORDS SFU Operations Research Seminar: Yves Lucet
February 29, 2024
Simon Fraser University
Computational convex analysis aims at computing mathematical objects commonly used in convex analysis with an emphasis on lower dimensions to facilitate visualization. The latest contributions have focused on computing the closest convex function and...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU Discrete Math Seminar: Yanwen Luo
November 28, 2023
Simon Fraser University
In 1962, Tutte proposed a simple method to produce a straight-line embedding of a planar graph in the plane, known as Tutte's spring theorem. This construction provides not only one embedding of a planar graph, but infinite many distinct embeddings...
Scientific, Seminar
PIMS - SFU Theory Seminar: Akbar Rafiey
June 20, 2019
Simon Fraser University
Given two (di)graphs $G$, $H$ and a cost function $c:V(G)\times V(H) \to \mathbb{Q}_{\geq 0}\cup\{+\infty\}$, in the minimum cost homomorphism problem, MinHOM($H$), we are interested in finding a homomorphism $f:V(G)\to V(H)$ (a.k.a $H$-coloring)...

Staff

Position Name Email Phone # Office
PIMS Site Director - Simon Fraser University Razvan Fetecau razvan_fetecau@sfu.ca (778) 782-6655
PIMS Education Coordinator, Simon Fraser University Jamie Mulholland jtmulhol@sfu.ca 778 782 7655 SCK10541
PIMS SFU Site Administrator Kenn Liu sfupims@sfu.ca +1 (778) 782-6655 Big Data Hub, Rm 10936
Name Position Research Interests Supervisor Year
Tareq Uz Zaman PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University Applied Mathmatics & PDE Steven Ruuth 2025
Lucas Villagra Torcomian PIMS-Simons Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University Number Theory & Algebraic Geometry Imin Chen 2024
Yanwen Luo PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University Discrete &Computational Geometry Bojan Mohar 2023
Jane Shaw MacDonald PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University Numerical Analysis John Stockie 2022
Amy Wiebe Postdoctoral Researcher Combinatorics Tamon Stephen 2021
Hansol Park Postdoctoral Researcher Partial Differential Equations Razvan Fetecau 2021
Eric Jones SFU Calculus of variations and optimal control David Sivak 2020
Marco Carmosino Postdoctoral Researcher Valentine Kabanets 2019
Shuxing Li Simon Fraser University Combinatorics Jonathan Jedwab 2019
Halyun Jeong University of British Columbia High Dimensional Data Analysis Ben Adcock 2018
Nick Dexter Simon Fraser University Numerical Analysis Ben Adcock 2018
Claire Boyer Statistics Ben Adcock 2016
Mattia Talpo University of British Columbia Algebraic Geometry Nathan Ilten 2016
Simone Brugiapaglia Simon Fraser University Stochastics Ben Adcock 2016
Fiachra John Knox Simon Fraser University Combinatorics Bojan Mohar 2015
Jens Bauch Simon Fraser University Number theory and algebraic geometry Nils Bruin 2015
Julien Courtial Simon Fraser University Combinatorics Marni Mishna 2014
Kui Yu Simon Fraser University Feature selection and probabilistic graphical models on high-dimensional data Jian Pei 2014
Peter Kling Simon Fraser University Computer Science and Combinatorics Petra Berenbrink 2014