Past Events

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...

Optimal Transport theory emerged more than two centuries ago as an engineering problem posed by Gaspard Monge just before the French revolution. Its rich mathematical structure was first revealed by the Russian Nobel-prize winner Kantorovich during...

While Einstein's theory of gravity is formulated in a smooth setting, the celebrated singularity theorems of Hawking and Penrose describe many physical situations in which this smoothness must eventually breakdown. In positive-definite signature...

Join us on July 27, 2023 for an afternoon and evening of discussion and learning on Tackling Climate Change and the Just Transition to Renewable Energy. This free two-part event is part of a series of French-Ameri-Can Climate Panels (FACTS) on...

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...

Science Rendezvous is a FREE festival that takes science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) research and innovation out of the lab and onto the street. See the UBC Science Rendezvous Page for activities taking place at UBC.

Students from grades 5, 6, and 7 will compete in separate divisions. Each division will enjoy three rounds of competition: Sprint Round During the Sprint Round participants have 50 minutes to answer 26 questions written on three pages (each correct...

Machine Learning including deep learning techniques have been successfully used in many big-data fields. However, a limitation of many machine learning tools is that one needs to have a very large sample size to train a model with many parameters...