University of Victoria | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

The University of Victoria PIMS site office is located in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Social Sciences and Mathematics building) at the University of Victoria (Map).

The Turan density of a forbidden hypergraph F is the largest edge density a large hypergraph H can have without containing any copy of F, and determining this number for various F is a notoriously difficult problem. One on-ramp to this question (from...

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We will introduce Random Spanning Trees in Random Environment (RSTRE), a disordered system on spanning trees that interpolates between the Uniform Spanning Tree (UST) and Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) measures. Our primary goal is to study how local...

Consider a random uniform sample of size $n$ over a bounded region $A$ in $R^d$, $d \geq 2$, having a smooth boundary. The coverage threshold $T_n$ is the smallest $r$ such that the union $Z$ of Euclidean balls of radius $r$ centred on the sample...

One of the main goals of statistical mechanics is to understand critical phenomena of lattice models. This can be achieved by computing the so-called critical exponents, which govern algebraic scaling near or at the critical point. This task is...

Spatial Pattern Formation and the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour

A 2-cell embedding of a graph G in an orientable surface of genus k is an embedding in which each face is homeomorphic to an open disk. The distribution of genus across all 2-cell embeddings of G is called the genus distribution of G. In this talk...

The question of whether one graph can be embedded in another is a fundamental problem in graph theory. In 2020, Joos and Kim introduced a generalization of the basic graph embedding problem to graph collections. Let $G=\{G_1,\ldots,G_m\}$ be a...

We will discuss a class of ideals in a polynomial ring studied by Mark Haiman in his work on the Hilbert scheme of points and discuss how they are related to homology of affine Springer fibers, Khovanov-Rozansky homology of links, and to the ORS...

An F-decomposition of a graph G is a set of subgraphs of G, each isomorphic to F, whose edge sets partition the edge set of G. I will speak about a result showing that, for each odd k ≥ 5, any graph G of sufficiently large order n with minimum degree...

The log-rank conjecture is a longstanding open problem with multiple equivalent formulations in complexity theory and mathematics. In its linear-algebraic form, it asserts that the rank and partitioning number of a Boolean matrix are quasi...

The Cascadia Combinatorial Feast (formerly known as the Combinatorial Potlatch) is an annual, floating, one-day conference. It has been held for many years at various locations around Puget Sound and southern British Columbia, and is an opportunity...

Staff

Position	Name	Email	Phone #	Office
PIMS Site Director, University of Victoria	Anthony Quas	aquas@uvic.ca	(250) 472-4271
PIMS Education Coordinator, University of Victoria	Jane Butterfield	jvbutter@uvic.ca		DTB-A445
Site Administrator - University of Victoria	Kristina McKinnon	pimsadmin@uvic.ca	+1 (250) 472-4271	DTB-A425

Name	Position	Research Interests	Supervisor	Year
Dylan Bansard-Tresse	PIMS-CNRS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Mathematical Physics	Anthony Quas	2025
Felix Christian Clemen	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Combinatorics	Natasha Morrison	2024
Tianxia (Tylar) Jia	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Applied Mathematics, PDE & Meteorology	Slim Ibrahim	2024
Kesav Krishnan	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes	Gourab Ray	2023
Kristýna Zemková	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta/University of Victoria	Linear and Multilinear Algebra	Stefan Gille	2022
Kumar Roy	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Mathematical Physics	Boualem Khouider	2022
Elizabeth Carlson	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Partial Differential Equations	David Goluskin	2021
Natalie Behague	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Combinatorics	Natasha Morrison	2021
Shangzhi Zeng	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Victoria	Operations research, Mathematical Programming	Jane J. Ye	2020
Jason Bramburger	University of Victoria	Dynamical systems and ergodic theory	David Goluskin	2019
Boyi Li	University of Victoria	Operator Theory	Marcelo Laca	2018
Hung Le	University of Victoria	Computer Science	Valerie King	2018
Yakine Bahri	University of Victoria	Nonlinear PDEs	Slim Ibrahim	2017
Diego Vela	University of Victoria	Topology	Ryan Budney	2015
Elsa Maria Dos Santos Cardoso-Bihlo	University of Victoria	Fluid mechanics/Numerical Analysis	Boualem Khouider	2015