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Welcome to the home page of the Department of Mathematics at the University of
British Columbia. We invite you to take some time to explore our pages and get
a sense of who we are and what we do.
We are located in beautiful and friendly
Vancouver, British Columbia. We take pride in accomplishments of
our faculty, postdocs and students. We offer a lively program of courses for
undergraduates and
graduate students, seminars, workshops,
social activities and individual contact with faculty that
encourages the study of mathematics on all levels. Our faculty are involved in a broad
variety of research activities associated with many institutes such
as PIMS, the Institute
for Applied Mathematics, MITACS and BIRS.
Please feel free to contact us if you would like any further information.
Newsletters
News
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Aug 02, 2010: Ailana Fraser has been awarded
an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement in the most recent round.
Details on our awards page
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July 2010: At this year's CAIMS meeting in St. John's, UBC was well
represented as four of the main lectures, Early Career Award, Industrial Math Prize, Research Prize,
and one of the plenaries, were given by Dan Coombs (Math), Brian Wetton (Math), Uri Ascher (UBC CS)
and Michael Ward (Math), respectively.
http://www.caims2010.ca
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July 2010: In the recent IMO
http://www.imo2010org.kz/?lang=eng&id_rubric=1
Robin Cheng, a member of our UBC Olympiad Circle
(http://www.math.ubc.ca/Outreach/Schools/) for
the past three years, was Canada's highest placing student. Thanks to our excellent
student leaders (graduate and undergraduate) and Andrew Adler for their dedicated and hard work in
making the Circle a success. Many "graduates" from our Circle have been members of the Canadian IMO team.
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May 2010: The Math Corporate Running Team, "Running Average" finished in
5th place in the Vancouver Sun Run, out of 34 teams in the Education category.
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Apr 27, 2010: David Kohler has been selected
as the recipient of the 2009/10 UBC Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Award.
Details on our awards page.
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Apr 26, 2010 The following students were awarded NSERC
graduate/postdoctoral fellowships for next year.
PGS fellowships:
Farzin Barekat, Shane Cernele, Cameron Christou,
Eric DeGiuli, Matthew Folz, Tyler Helmuth, Jennifer Morrison,
Oren Rippel, Rhoda Sollazzo
PDF fellowships:
Jun Allard, Adam Clay, Craig Cowan,
Aurel Meyer, Terry Soo
Details on our awards page.
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Apr 21, 2010: Mar Ness, Warren Code
and Rajiv Gupta have won the 2009/2010 Faculty of Science Achievement
awards. Details on our awards page.
- Apr 19, 2010: Omer Angel has
been awarded an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement in the most recent round.
Details on our awards page
- Apr 09, 2010: Brian Wetton has
been selected as the recipient of the 2010 CAIMS/MITACS Industrial Mathematics Prize.
Details on our awards page
- Mar 15, 2010: Daniel Coombs has
been selected as the recipient of 2010 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics.
Details on our awards page
- Older news items can be viewed in our News Archive.
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