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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UBC Earth Science Building
Educational, Workshop
Math Circles
November 25, 2024
SWING 105
Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills at the Math Circle Workshops. This is an enrichment program for students organized by the faculty members of the Department of Mathematics at the...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Stephanie van Willigenburg
November 26, 2024
University of British Columbia
This will be an in-person version of a Zoom workshop to be given at Grad and Postdoc Studies in December. It is open to all grad students and postdocs, not just those on the job market this year. Please come, learn, ask questions afterwards and give...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Tom Hutchcroft
November 27, 2024
University of British Columbia
I will give an overview of forthcoming work proving that large critical percolation clusters in high-dimensional lattices converge under rescaling to the expected universal limit object: superBrownian motion. A key step is to compute the first-order...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Tom Hutchcroft
November 27, 2024
University of British Columbia
I will give an overview of forthcoming work proving that large critical percolation clusters in high-dimensional lattices converge under rescaling to the expected universal limit object: superBrownian motion. A key step is to compute the first-order...
Educational, Workshop
Math Circles
December 2, 2024
SWING 105
Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills at the Math Circle Workshops. This is an enrichment program for students organized by the faculty members of the Department of Mathematics at the...
Educational, Workshop
Math Circles
December 9, 2024
SWING 105
Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills at the Math Circle Workshops. This is an enrichment program for students organized by the faculty members of the Department of Mathematics at the...
Educational, Workshop
ELMACON 2025 Preparation Session 1
December 14, 2024
ESB 1013
As in previous years, we will be running three preparation sessions to help you keep your math skills sharp and get you ready for the competition. The first preparation session will take place on Saturday, December 14th from 10am-12pm in Earth...
Educational, Workshop
ELMACON 2025 Preparation Session 2
February 8, 2025
ESB 1013
As in previous years, we will be running three preparation sessions to help you keep your math skills sharp and get you ready for the competition. The first preparation session will take place on Saturday, December 14th from 10am-12pm in Earth...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Jacob Fox
November 15, 2024
University of British Columbia
Szemerédi's regularity lemma and its variants are some of the most powerful tools in combinatorics. For example, Szemerédi used an early version in the proof of his celebrated theorem on long arithmetic progressions in dense sets of integers. It has...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Jonathan Yang
November 18, 2024
University of British Columbia
Matroids are combinatorial objects that abstract the notion of independence. The motivating examples are matroids arising from vector configurations. An important tool for studying matroids is the associated Chow ring. A recent result of Adiprasito...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Nikita Gladkov
November 20, 2024
University of British Columbia
We discuss the Bunkbed Conjecture, a long-standing conjecture about connection probabilities in percolation. We describe a recent counterexample to this conjecture, a graph on 7772 vertices, and describe its structure.
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Number Theory Seminar: Abbas Maarefparvar
November 15, 2024
University of British Columbia
For a number field K, the P\'olya group of K, denoted by Po(K), is the subgroup of the ideal class group of K generated by the classes of the products of maximal ideals of K with the same norm. In this talk, after reviewing some results concerning Po...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Number Theory Seminar: Emily Quesada-Herrera
November 8, 2024
University of British Columbia
In 1973, assuming the Riemann hypothesis (RH), Montgomery studied the vertical distribution of zeta zeros, and conjectured that they behave like the eigenvalues of some random matrices. We will discuss some models for zeta zeros - starting from the...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Behrang Forghani
November 6, 2024
University of British Columbia
The Poisson boundary of a random walk on a group is a probability space used to study the long-term behavior of the random walk. Because the group naturally acts on the Poisson boundary, various questions regarding the structure of this action can be...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Ailene MacPherson
November 6, 2024
University of British Columbia
A fundamental aim of evolutionary biology is to describe and explain biodiversity patterns; this aim centers around questions of how many "species" exist, where they are most/least abundant, how this distribution is changing over time, and why...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Yu Fu
November 4, 2024
University of British Columbia
The Hecke orbit conjecture predicts that Hecke symmetries characterize the central foliation on Shimura varieties over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic p. The original conjecture predicts that on the mod p reduction of a Shimura...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Jaye Sudweeks
September 25, 2024
PIMS Library - ESB 4133
The evolution and maintenance of cooperation is a fundamental problem in evolutionary biology. Because cooperative behaviors impose a cost, Cooperators are vulnerable to exploitation by Defectors that do not pay the cost to cooperate but still...

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 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
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
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, 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
Finance Manager Rozalia Mate rozalia@pims.math.ca (604) 822-3782 Room 4172
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
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