University of British Columbia | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

The University of British Columbia PIMS site office is located in the Earth Sciences Building at the University of British Columbia.

The University of British Columbia PIMS site office also hosts the PIMS central offices. These 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.

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...

q-analogues of quantities in mathematics involve perturbations of classical quantities using the parameter q, and revert to the original quantities when q goes 1. A notable example is the q-analogues of binomial coefficients, denoted by {n \choose k}...

Lots of problems in combinatorics and analysis are connected to upper bounds for incidences: given a set of points and tubes, how much can they intersect? This talk is about lower bounds for incidences, a topic that has received much less attention...

A vibrant and classic area of research is that of relating the size of a set to the finite point configurations that it contains. Here, size may refer to cardinality, dimension, or measure. It is a consequence of the Lebesgue density theorem, for...

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...

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Please note. The 2025 competition is provisionally scheduled for May 3rd. This date is room booking availability and will be finalized in February 2025. ELMACON is an annual math contest for students in grades 5, 6, and 7. Students tackle hard...

Reduced density matrix theories offer a promising tool to circumvent the exponential scaling of the N-fermion Hilbert space with the system size and it is conceptually well-suited to describe strongly correlated many-particle systems, a central...

Motivic cohomology is a cohomology theory that can be defined internally within Grothendieck's category of motives. Voevodsky developed this theory for smooth varieties, demonstrating its profound connections to algebraic cycles and algebraic K...

Within the Langlands program, the theory of endoscopy concerns the transfer of distributions between a reductive group G and G′, an endoscopic group of G. At the heart of Langlands' original study on Beyond Endoscopy is the notion of stable transfer...

Fire blight is a bacterial plant disease that affects apple and pear trees. We present a mathematical model for its spread in an orchard during bloom (sometimes referred to as blossom blight). This is a PDE-ODE coupled system, consisting of two...

David Vogan's 1993 paper on the local Langlands correspondence showed that there are advantages to simultaneously considering representations of a p-adic group together with its pure inner forms. Combined with other insights, this opened the door to...

In practice, L-functions appear as generating functions encapsulating information about various objects, such as Galois representations, elliptic curves, arithmetic functions, modular forms, Maass forms, etc. Studying L-functions is therefore of...

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...

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...

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.

Join us for a unique opportunity to meet and learn from Dr. James Glazier, a pioneer in computational biology and a renowned cell and tissue modelling expert. Dr. Glazier’s visit will feature a full day of activities, including a showcase of our...

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.

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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

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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

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