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Mathematics Department

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

  • 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
  • Mar 10, 2010: Rachel Kuske has been awarded the Canadian Math Society's 2011 Krieger-Nelson Prize for Research Excellence. Details on our awards page
  • Mar 10, 2010: Kai Behrend has been awarded the Canadian Math Society's 2011 Jeffery-William Prize for Research Excellence. Details on our awards page
  • Mar 09, 2010: Nassif Ghoussoub has been awarded the 2010 CMS Borwein Career Award. Details on our awards page
  • Mar 04, 2010: Oren Rippel, an outstanding Combined Honours Math and Physics student, who has been awarded a Wesbrook Scholarship. Details on our awards page
  • Feb 23, 2010: Omer Angel has been awarded a 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship. Details on our awards page
  • Feb 08, 2010: Jimmy Feng has been awarded 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.
  • Older news items can be viewed in our News Archive.