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, Seminar
UBC DG + MP + PDE Seminar: Gabriel Khan
March 7, 2023
University of British Columbia
Optimal transport studies the most economical movement of resources. In other words, one considers a pile of raw material and wants to transport it to a final configuration in a cost-efficient way. Under quite general assumptions, the solution to...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Mathematics of Information Seminar: Ahmet Alacaoglu
February 1, 2023
University of British Columbia
Stochastic variance reduction techniques have been influential for developing algorithms for minimization problems in the last decade whereas their use in more general problem templates has been limited. This talk will present a first order algorithm...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Lucas Gagnon
February 14, 2023
University of British Columbia
A “quasisymmetric variety” (QSV) is a subset of permutations that (when considered as points in n-space) have a vanishing ideal that shares key properties with the ideal generated by quasisymmetric polynomials, and moreover which forms a basis for...
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UBC Probability Seminar: Michael Choi
March 15, 2023
University of British Columbia
Given a target distribution \(pi\) and an arbitrary Markov infinitesimal generator \(L\) a finite state space \(chi\), in this talk we develop three structured and inter-related approaches to generate new reversiblizations from \(L\). The first...
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UBC Probability Seminar: Emilio Corso
March 8, 2023
University of British Columbia
A momentous legacy of twentieth-century mathematics is the realisation that deterministically evolving systems frequently exhibit, when observed for sufficiently extended periods of time, a statistical behaviour akin to the limiting behaviour of...
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UBC Math Bio Seminar: John Rinzel
March 15, 2023
University of British Columbia
When experiencing an ambiguous sensory stimulus (e.g., the vase-faces image), subjects may report random alternations (time scale, seconds) between the possible interpretations. I will describe dynamical models with multiple time scales for neuronal...
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UBC Probability Seminar: Ahmed Bou-Rabee
March 1, 2023
University of British Columbia
The Abelian sandpile growth model has a fascinating fractal structure. I will give an overview of what we know on deterministic and random lattices and discuss several open questions. There are connections to circle packings, rational approximation...
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UBC Ergodic Theory Seminar: Pablo Shmerkin
February 27, 2023
University of British Columbia
Hillel Furstenberg conjectured in the 1960s that the intersections of closed ×2 and ×3-invariant Cantor sets have “small” Hausdorff dimension. This conjecture was proved independently by Meng Wu and by myself; recently, Tim Austin found a simple...
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UBC Probability Seminar: Andrea Ottolini
February 15, 2023
University of British Columbia
The Zener cards are a deck of nm cards where each of n symbols is depicted on exactly m cards. The following experiment \((n=mu=5)\)has been used since the early ‘30s to test for extrasensory perceptions: the alleged telepath tries to guess cards one...
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UBC Discrete Math Seminar: Weihong Xu
March 21, 2023
University of British Columbia
Cominuscule flag varieties generalize Grassmannians to other Lie types. Schubert varieties in cominuscule flag varieties are indexed by posets of roots labeled long/short. These labeled posets generalize Young diagrams. In this talk, I will report on...

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
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 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
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
Mathav Murugan University of British Columbia Probability Gordon Slade 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