Awards

Yinon Spinka has won the Bernoulli Society’s Wolfgang Doeblin Prize

This Prize is awarded biannually to a single individual who is in the beginning of his or her mathematical career, for outstanding research in the field of probability theory. Yinon will submit to the journal Probability Theory and Related Fields a paper for publication as the Wolfgang Doeblin... read more

Joshua Zahl has won the UBC/PIMS mathematical sciences early career award

This prize was created by two founding donors, Anton Kuipers and Darrell Duffie , to recognize UBC researchers for their leading edge work in mathematics or its applications in the sciences. Josh will receive a "monetary award” and deliver a PIMS/UBC Distinguished Colloquium lecture... read more

Mathematics Department's Graduate Research Awards for 2021

Every year the Department of Mathematics celebrates excellence by presenting Graduate Research Awards to deserving Doctoral students for research done while at UBC. The winners of the Mathematics Department's Graduate Research Awards for 2021 have now been selected. Please join us in congratulating... read more

Christoph Ortner had been named as a new member of the RSC college of new scholars, artists and scientists (2022)

The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists is Canada’s first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership. More details can be found here: https://rsc-src.ca/en/news/press-release-rsc-presents-class-2022read more

Ian Frigaard has won the Mason Award from the Canadian Society of Rheology (2022)

This prestigious award is given every three years to a distinguished Canadian rheologist or a rheologist who has worked in Canada. Details here: https://www.polymtl.ca/scr-csr/en/about_mason.phpread more

Elina Robeva has won the 2020 UBC/PIMS Mathematical Sciences Young Faculty Award (2020)

This prize was created by two founding donors, Anton Kuipers and Darrell Duffie , to recognize UBC researchers for their leading edge work in mathematics or its applications in the sciences. Details here: https://www.pims.math.ca/pims-glance/prizes-awardsread more

Elina Robeva is the 2022 recipient of the CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Researcher Award (2022)

This award recognizes exceptional research in any branch of applied mathematics where the recipient is less than ten years past the date of Ph.D. at the time of nomination. More information is available at: https://caims.ca/award/caims-pims-early-career-award/read more

Damien Huet wins the UBC Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (2021/2022)

This award acknowledges the invaluable role of our TAs in our teaching mission. The winners demonstrate teaching excellence and have a high level of esteem for the from undergraduate students and supervisors. Damien is being recognized with the Killam GTA Award after running labs in MECH 2,... read more

Ailana Fraser wins a Simons fellowship (2022)

This award supports her upcoming sabbatical leave. Congratulations Ailana! For more information, visit https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2022/02/18/2022-simons-fellows-in-mathematics-and-theoretical-physics-announced/read more

Guodong Gai receives the Mathematics Department Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)

The undergraduate committee makes this award each semester to recognize the teaching contributions of our postdoctoral fellows. We rely heavily on their efforts, especially but not exclusively in 100- and 200- level classes. Congratulations to Guodong and Farid, and thanks for all you do for the... read more