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
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Mathematics of Information Colloquium: Sinho Chewi
February 3, 2023
University of British Columbia
Sampling is a fundamental and widespread algorithmic primitive that lies at the heart of Bayesian inference and scientific computing, among other disciplines. Recent years have seen a flood of works aimed at laying down the theoretical underpinnings...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Jonah Brooks Hall
February 1, 2023
University of British Columbia
VRC01, VRC01LS, and VRC07-523LS are broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) that target the CD4 binding site of gp120 on the HIV-1 envelope. VRC01LS and VRC07-523LS are enhanced modifications of the VRC01 and VRC07 antibodies. Phase 1 clinical trials...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: János Engländer
February 1, 2023
University of British Columbia
We investigate a self-interacting random walk, in a dynamically evolving environment, which is a random tree built by the walker itself, as it walks around. At time n=1,2,…n=1,2,…, right before stepping, the walker adds a random number (possibly zero...
Scientific, Seminar
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Nabarun Deb
February 1, 2023
University of British Columbia
In recent years, the problem of optimal transport has received significant attention in statistics and machine learning due to its powerful geometric properties. In this talk, we introduce the optimal transport problem and present concrete...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC/PIMS Young Faculty Award Lecture: Josh Zahl
February 17, 2023
University of British Columbia
A Kakeya set is a compact subset of R^n that contains a unit line segment pointing in every direction. The Kakeya conjecture asserts that such sets must have dimension n. This conjecture is closely related to several open problems in harmonic...
Scientific, Colloquia
PIMS Network Wide Colloquium: Helen Byrne
February 16, 2023
Online
The past twenty-five years have heralded an unparalleled increase in understanding of cancer. At the same time, mathematical modelling has emerged as a natural tool for unravelling the complex processes that contribute to the initiation and...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC SCAIM Seminar: Anthony Wachs
February 14, 2023
University of British Columbia
I present recent advances in the design of models of hydrodynamic force and torque exerted on monodisperse spheres in a statistically homogeneous random array at Reynolds number 0.01 ≤ Re ≤ 150 and solid volume fraction 0.02 ≤ φ ≤ 40. All models take...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Merlin Pelz
January 11, 2023
University of British Columbia
Since Alan Turing's pioneering publication on morphogenetic pattern formation obtained with reaction-diffusion (RD) systems, it has been the prevailing belief that two-component reaction diffusion systems have to include a fast diffusing inhibiting...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG+MP+PDE Seminar: Man-Chun Lee
November 8, 2022
Online
In this talk, we will consider Riemannian metrics with scalar curvature bounded from below and discuss the possible behavior of the sequence under various non-collapsing assumption. This is based on joint works with A. Naber, R. Neumayer, P. Topping...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Ergodic Theory Seminar: Chengyu Wu
November 17, 2022
University of British Columbia
The method of cutting and stacking has long been used in ergodic theory. As a useful tool for constructing stationary and ergodic processes with desired properties, this method should also be powerful in solving information theoretic problems. In...

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