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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
of Applied Mathematics, MITACS and
BIRS.
Please feel free to contact us if you would like any further information.
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News
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Dec 19, 2011: The Department of Mathematics has a new award that
targets Mathematically strong High School students. A generous gift from an
alumni has provided $15,000 each year for the next 5 years
for Entrance scholarships to students of exceptional ability and interest
in Mathematics who are entering UBC Vancouver directly from High School.
The awards are made on the recommendation of the Mathematics Department.
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Nov 17, 2011: Young-Heon Kim has been awarded
the 2012 André-Aisenstadt Prize from CRM. Details on our awards page.
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August, 2011: The following students were awarded NSERC/SSHRC
graduate fellowships for 2011-12.
PGSM fellowship: Matthew Coles
CGSM fellowships: Jonathan Blackman, Meghan Dutot, Jeremy Hoskins, Adrian Keet, Brett Kolesnik,
Laura Liao, Justin Martel, Oren Rippel, Pamela Sargent
PGSD fellowship: Rory Wilson
CGSD fellowships: Kyle Hambrook, Alexander Tomberg
Vanier fellowship: Iain Moyles
SSHRC fellowship: Alexander Jakobsen
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July, 2011: The work of UBC Alumnus Ryan Lukeman (PhD 2009) on collective
behavior was featured in the German weekly news magazine, Spiegel online link:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,775491,00.html
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May 13, 2011: Ian Frigaard
has been elected President of the
CAIMS*SCAIM(Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society) Board.
Details on our awards page
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May 04, 2011: Ian Frigaard
has been awarded the 2011 CAIMS/MITACS Industrial Mathematics Prize.
Details on our awards page
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Apr 20, 2011: Gordon Slade
has been elected to Fellowship in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Details on our awards page
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Apr 19, 2011: Verni Brown
and David Steinberg are
recipients of 2010-11 Faculty of Science Achievement Awards
in the areas of staff and students, respectively. Details of
Verni's and David's awards are on
our Awards page.
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Apr 19, 2011: Malabika Pramanik
has been awarded a 2010-11 UBC Killam Teaching Prize. Details on our
awards page
- Older news items can be viewed in our News Archive.
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