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, Workshop
Canadian Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Conference (CanaDAM) 2025
Invited Minisymposia: IM1: Descriptive combinatorics ( Anton Bernshteyn, UCLA and Felix Weilacher, UC Berkeley) IM2: Pursuit-evasion games on graphs ( Anthony Bonato, Toronto Metropolitan University) IM3: How Many? The Art and Craft of Counting (...
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...
Educational, Summer School
Math Summer School for Elementary School Teachers
Teachers are expected to attend (online) from 9:00 to 12:30 every weekday and to work on their own at home for another half an hour each day. They will be paid a $1,200 stipend upon completion of the program. Registration is now open, please see the...
Scientific, Conference
Joint PIMS-ICMS event - Big Data before Data Science
Scientific, Workshop
Test Event
Scientific, Workshop
Additional Accommodation - Spring Time in Mathematical Quantum Physics
Fee Structure Room Rate: $240 CAD/night
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG MP PDE Seminar: Younghun Hong
The discrete Schrödinger equation on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice is a fundamental tight-binding approximation model that describes the propagation of electrons on graphene. By the Fourier transform on the honeycomb lattice, the free...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Lily Reeves
Hierarchical percolation is a toy model for percolation on ℤd that, much like the Euclidean model, is expected to exhibit mean-field behavior in high dimensions, non-mean-field behavior in low dimensions, and mean-field behavior with logarithmic...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Aukosh Jagannath
Many modern data science tasks can be expressed as optimizing a complex, random function in high dimensions. The go-to method for such problems is Stochastic gradient descent (SGD), which performs remarkably well—c.f. the success of modern neural...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Harmonic Analysis and Fractal Geometry Seminar: Rosemarie Bongers
Talk Abstract The orthogonally projected shadows of a dispersed set in the plane carry much of the information about the shape of the set. The average size of the shadow, known as the Favard length, can be used to study density, structure...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Jonathan Boretsky
The totally positive flag variety of rank r, defined by Lusztig, can be described as the set of rank r flags of real linear subspaces which can be represented by a matrix whose minors are all positive. We show that, for flag varieties of consecutive...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Romain Panis
In two independent papers, Aizenman and Fröhlich argued that every scaling limit of the critical Ising model in dimensions d > 4 is trivial (or Gaussian). This qualitative result can be reformulated as follows: the Schwinger functions of any...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Alex Mogilner
Individual and collective cell polarity has fascinated mathematical modelers for a long time. Recently, a more subtle type of symmetry breaking started to attract attention of experimentalists and theorists alike - emergence of chirality in single...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Federico Scavia
For every finite group H and every finite H-module A, we determine the subgroup of negligible classes in H^2(H,A), in the sense of Serre, over fields with enough roots of unity. As a consequence, we show that for every odd prime p and every field F...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Harmonic Analysis and Fractal Geometry Seminar: Emily Casey
A longstanding conjecture of Carleson stated that the tangent points of the boundaries of certain planar domains can be characterized by the behavior of the Carleson ε-function. This conjecture, which was fully resolved by Jaye, Tolsa, and Villa in...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Mathav Murugan
Given a strongly local Dirichlet form on a metric measure space that satisfies Gaussian heat kernel bounds, we show that the martingale dimension of the associated diffusion process coincides with Cheeger's analytic dimension of the underlying metric...
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 | (604) 822-0406 | Room 4162 |
| Communications and Event Assistant | Lisa Sammoh | lisa@pims.math.ca | (604)822-3922 | ESB4166 |
| PIMS Education Coordinator, University of British Columbia | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua P Turner | PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia | Algebraic Geometry, Topology, and Combinatorics | Sabin Cautis | 2025 |
| 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 |