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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.
News
- Feb 08, 2010: Jimmy Feng has been a
warded a UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship. More information on our
awards page
- Jan 12, 2010: Many thanks to Prof. David Cheriton,
UBC Mathematics alumnus, now Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University,
for his generous support of the MATH-CWSEI
(Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative) program.
UBC President Stephen Toope notes, ``His generosity today will help transform basic and applied
science education for decades to come.'' Prof. Cheriton heads the Distributed Systems Group at
Stanford and is widely credited with helping establish the Internet search giant Google.
Read more at: http://www.science.ubc.ca/news/341
- Dec 4, 2009: Gordon Slade
has been awarded the 2010 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize. Details on our
awards page.
- Nov 24, 2009: Omer Angel has been
awarded the 2009-2010 Andre-Aisenstadt Prize.
More information on our awards page.
- Oct 15, 2009: Eldad Haber, jointly appointed in
Earth and Ocean Sciences and Mathematics, has been awarded an NSERC Industrial
Research Chair (IRC). More information on our awards page.
- July 2009: At this years Stochastic Processes and Applications meeting
in Berlin, UBC was well represented as two of the named plenary lectures, the Doob Lecture
and the IMS Medallion Lecture, were given by Ed Perkins and
Gordon Slade, respectively.
http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/SPA2009/pages/program/plenary-lectures.php
- July 2009: Jimmy Feng,
Kalle Karu and
Nike Vatsal were all awarded NSERC Discovery Accelerator Awards.
These highly competitive awards provide substantial and timely resources to outstanding researchers
who have a well-established research program and who are at a key point in their careers at which
they can make, or capitalize on, a significant breakthrough.
More information on our awards page
- June 2009: Mathematical Models in Biology, by
Leah Keshet, was #3 on the best sellers list over the past year from SIAM books.
http://www.siam.org/books/pdf/2009/bestsellers_june_09.pdf
- Jun 04, 2009: David Brydges
and Zinovy Reichstein have both accepted invitations
to speak at the next International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010 in Hyderabad,
India. This is an extremely prestigious honour -- only a handful of mathematicians
receive these invitation are invited. The ICM meets only once every four years. The ICM
Satellite conference on Algebraic Geometry will also feature Kai Behrend and Patrick
Brosnan as plenary speakers.
- Jun 04, 2009: Melania Alvarez has been nominated for a YWCA Vancouver
Woman of Distinction Award, in the category of Education, Training and Development.
See http://www.ywcavan.org/content/Education__Training_and_Development_/885/ for more details.
- Older news items can be viewed in our News Archive.
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