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
Topology Seminar: Henrik Rüping
October 1, 2014
University of British Columbia
In the beginning of this talk I will use the Farrell-Jones conjecture to express the K-theory of R[Z^2] in Terms of the K-theory of R. Geometric conditions on a Group that imply the conjecture will be mentioned . The class of Groups for which the...
Scientific, Seminar
Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Patrick Gerard
October 2, 2014
University of British Columbia
The cubic Szegö equation is an Hamiltonian evolution on periodic functions with nonnegative Fourier modes, arising as a normal form for the large time behavior of a nonlinear wave equation on the circle. It defines a flow on every Sobolev space with...
Scientific, Seminar
Geometry and Physics Seminar: Gabriel Kerr
October 6, 2014
University of British Columbia
Homological mirror symmetry initially concerned Calabi-Yau 3-folds and, from that point, rapidly expanded to incorporate local Calabi-Yau's and Fano varieties. In this talk, I will discuss joint work with Ludmil Katzarkov and Maxim Kontsevich on...
Scientific, Seminar
Geometry and Physics Seminar: Charlie Beil
October 6, 2014
University of British Columbia
A dimer algebra is a type of quiver algebra whose quiver embeds in a torus, with homotopy-like relations. Dimer algebras with the cancellation property are Calabi-Yau algebras, and their centers are 3-dimensional Gorenstein singularities. Non...
Scientific, Seminar
Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Zachary Bradshaw
October 7, 2014
University of British Columbia
Strong solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations are known to exist locally-in-time and are real analytic. Providing lower bounds for their analyticity radius is important as this length scale plays an important role in turbulent phenomenologies...
Scientific, Conference
PIMS Symposium on the Geometry and Topology of Manifolds
June 29 – July 9, 2015
University of British Columbia
N.B. Notes and photos for this event are available on mathtube.org. The objective will be to bring together mathematicians working on a broad range of topics in this area, and provide an opportunity for researchers and graduate students to learn...
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Man Chuen Cheng
October 15, 2014
University of British Columbia
Let G be a Lie group. The space Hom(Z^n,G) of commuting n-tuples in G was extensively studied over the last few years. Two related generalizations of this space are the space of almost commuting tuples, in the sense that the commutator of every pair...
Scientific, Seminar
Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Stefan Le Coz
October 14, 2014
University of British Columbia
So far, only two blow-up regimes have been studied for NLS equations: the pseudo-conformal regime, where the blow-up speed is like $|t| ^{-1}$ and the log-log regime where the blow-up speed is like $|t|^{-1/2}$ with a log-log correction.In this talk...
Scientific, Seminar
Math Biology Seminar: Cole Zmurchok
October 7, 2014
University of British Columbia
Flocks of birds, schools of fish, and insect swarms provide examples of animals exhibiting collective behaviour. Models of collective behaviour connect mechanisms and behavioural rules to group-level pattern formation. In this presentation, direction...
Scientific, Seminar
Probability Seminar: Julia Komjathy
October 29, 2014
University of British Columbia
In this talk, we investigate the degree distribution of shortest path trees of various weighted network models. The aim of many empirical studies is to determine the degree distribution of a network with unknown structure by using trace-route...

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