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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Educational
Science Rendezvous 2025
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. Departments and units from the Faculty of Science at UBC will be participating at...
Scientific, Summer School
2025 PIMS-CRM Summer School in Probability
Event Organizers Gordon Slade University of British Columbia Omer Angel University of British Columbia Louigi Addario-Berry McGill University Mathav Murugan University of British Columbia Course Descriptions Main course: Tom Hutchcroft Title...
Scientific, Workshop
Test Event
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Number Theory Seminar: Abbas Maarefparvar
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Educational, Workshop
Math Circles
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
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
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
Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills at the Math Circle Workshops. Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills at the Math Circle...
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 | 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 | ||
| Perla Kfoury | University of Toulouse | ||
| Stefan Le Coz | University of Toulouse | ||
| Hui Chen | Zhejiang University of Science | ||
| Takahisa Inui | Osaka University | ||
| Rustum Choksi | McGill University |
| 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 |