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
Geometry and Physics Seminar: Michel van Garrel
June 18, 2014
University of British Columbia
Let S be a smooth Del Pezzo surface. We introduce three seemingly unrelated sets of invariants: local BPS state counts of S, relative BPS state counts of S relative to a smooth anticanonical divisor, and generalized DT invariants of the m-loop quiver...
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Patrick Dehornoy
July 3, 2014
University of British Columbia
Discovered (or invented?) by Richard Laver in the 1990s, the tables that are now known as Laver tables are finite structures obeying the self-distributivity law x(yz)=(xy)(xz). Although their construction is totally explicit, some of their...
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Cyril Lecuire
June 12, 2014
University of British Columbia
For a free group F, there is a natural action of Out(F) on the space of representations Hom(F,PSL(2,C)). Minsky introduced an open subset PS(F) (for primitive stable representations) on which Out(F) acts properly discontinuously which is expected to...
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Patrick Reynolds
June 9, 2014
University of British Columbia
Laminations and free group actions on R-trees are useful tools for studying the structure of elements of and subgroups of outer automorphisms groups of free groups, denoted Out(F). After introducing laminations and R-trees in the context of Out(F)...
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: José María Cantarero López
June 6, 2014
University of British Columbia
The classification of p-compact groups was a great achievement towards the understanding of finite H-spaces. In this talk we will talk about the history of finite H-spaces beginning from compact Lie groups. Then we will introduce the notions of p...
Scientific, Seminar
Math Biology Seminar: Graham Donovan
June 17, 2014
University of British Columbia
Asthma is a surprisingly serious disease which exhibits a number of interesting dynamic phenomena. Because of challenges in making direct experimental measurements, mathematical modelling is a valuable tool for integrating the incomplete information...
Scientific, Seminar
Math Biology Seminar: Amanda Swan
May 27, 2014
University of British Columbia
Current treatment of glioblastoma brain tumors offers lots of room for improvement, with the current expected survival being about a year with treatment. A model which describes the distribution of cancer cells within the brain tissue would offer...
Scientific, Seminar
Math Biology Seminar: Michael Irvine
May 22, 2014
University of British Columbia
The measurement of dynamic persistence of a population has been a long standing problem in Ecology. For spatial processes, fractal measurements such as the Korcak exponent or the boundary dimension have often been proposed as indicators of the...
Scientific, Seminar
Diff. Geom, Math. Phys., PDE Seminar: Yanyan Li
May 23, 2014
University of British Columbia
We study gradient estimates for solutions of divergence form elliptic systems with piecewise smooth coefficients. These systems arise from composite material. We will mention some open problems. This is an expository talk; is accessible to graduate...
Scientific, Seminar
Topology Seminar: Thomas Koberda
April 15, 2014
University of British Columbia
We discuss a result which shows that every right-angled Artin group quasi-isometrically embeds in a planar pure braid group. As a consequence, we obtain examples of quasi-isometrically embedded closed hyperbolic manifold subgroups of pure braid...

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