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
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PIMS - BC Data Colloquium: Raymond Ng
February 28, 2018
Vancouver, BC
Personalized medicine has been hailed as one of the main frontiers for medical research in this century. In the first half of the talk, we will give an overview on our projects that use complex and big data sets for biomarker discovery. In the second...
Industrial
PIMS - BC Data Colloquium: Ryan Prox
February 7, 2018
Vancouver, BC
The Vancouver Police Department is known worldwide for its pioneering work in the field of intelligence-led policing, and is the first police service in Canada to deploy a machine-learning predictive system directly on police mobile computers. With a...
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bcdata Colloquium Series: Caroline Colijn
February 27, 2020
Vancouver, BC
The coronavirus that was reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 has caused much concern in the media, in scientific and in public health communities due to its human-to-human transmission, virulence and transmissibility. In this era of open data...
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BC Data Colloquium Series: Joe Hamman
January 31, 2020
Vancouver, BC
Researchers in the climate sciences are increasingly overwhelmed with the volume and complexity of data produced by climate models, satellite platforms, and in-situ observations. At a time when rapid synthesis and actionable discovery are needed most...
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BC Data Colloquium Series: Yaser Khalighi
November 21, 2019
Vancouver, BC
There is no shortage of challenges in building self-driving cars and one of the key challenges is the data-availability. In this talk, we will address the challenges in data collection, management, labeling, and validation in the autonomous vehicle...
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BC Data Colloquium Series: Stefan Hannie
October 24, 2019
Vancouver, BC
When you load a webpage, watch a video, send an email, or do any other task on the internet, packets of information travel along a path from you to your destination. But where, physically, is this path? We answer this question by using traceroutes...
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BC Data Colloquium: Sampoorna Biswas
September 26, 2019
Vancouver, BC
Title: Data-driven Control and Optimization in the Wind Industry. The wind industry is increasingly moving towards data-driven control and operations. In this talk, we look at key challenges in the area, the kind of data we get from wind turbines...
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BC Data Colloquium: Michael Reid
March 26, 2018
Vancouver, BC
As machine learning becomes more critical to businesses’ core offerings, data scientists must adapt their tools and techniques to meet business demands. Industry data scientists can no longer run ad hoc Tensorflow or Spark jobs against local data...
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2018 PIMS BC Data Science Workshop
June 4–8, 2018
Vancouver, BC
The BC Data Science workshop is targeted at graduate and undergraduate students in the Mathematical Sciences at UBC, SFU and other PIMS Universities. Participation from local Industry is encouraged and successful applicants will be guided to apply...
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Workshop on Cloud Computing and Microbiome Bioinformatics
December 3–4, 2018
University of British Columbia
This two-day workshop will be open to all faculty, students, and industry members (from all disciplines) who aim to learn about cloud computing basics and applications (Day 1). Day 2 is more specialized for those who aim to get familiar with basics...

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