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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 of Applied Mathematics, MITACS and BIRS.

Please feel free to contact us if you would like any further information.

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  • May 03, 2012: Jiaxing Wang has received the Globalink Graduate Fellowship Award. Details on our awards page.
  • Apr 04, 2012: Institude of Applied Mathematics (IAM) has received the Peter Larkin Award for 2011/2012.
  • Apr 02, 2012: Jessica Conway has won a Faculty of Science Postdoctoral Travel Award.
  • Apr 02, 2012: The Department Teaching Awards were awarded to one postdoctoral fellow, Deniz Karli, and to three graduate students, Rebecca Hiller, Ed Kroc and Ali Vakil. These awards recognize outstanding teaching performances from our postdoctoral fellows and graduate students.
  • Mar 29, 2012: Ailana Fraser has been awarded the Canadian Math Society's 2012 Krieger-Nelson Prize. Details on our awards page.
  • Mar 26, 2012: Mark MacLean is the recipient of the 2012 PIMS Education Prize. Details on our awards page.
  • Feb 15, 2012: Young-Heon Kim has been awarded a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship. Details on our awards page.
  • 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.
  • Nov 17, 2011: Young-Heon Kim has been awarded the 2012 André-Aisenstadt Prize from CRM. Details on our awards page.
  • 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

  • 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
  • Older news items can be viewed in our News Archive.