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Dr. Anotida Madzvamuse's Research on Single Cell Dynamics

Dr. Anotida Madzvamuse was recently featured in a UBC Faculty of Science video where he discusses his research which focuses on understanding single cell dynamics and how they migrate through their environments. His interdisciplinary work spans physics, biophysics, cellular biology, developmental... read more

Roland Bauerschmidt wins the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize

Roland was a PhD student in the probability group. He graduated in 2013. Roland just won this major prize for his work in probability theory and the renormalization group https://breakthroughprize.org/News/83read more

Lindsey Daniels was featured in a timely UBC News article on reducing math anxiety

Lindsey Daniels was featured in a timely UBC News article on reducing math anxiety. Good advice for students of all ages, and parents of all ages, as the new semester begins: https://news.ubc.ca/2023/08/29/heres-how-to-conquer-math-anxiety-and-succeed-this-semester/ She was also interviewed on CBC... read more

Alejandro Adem has just been elected as Chair of the Governing Board of the Global Research Council (GRC)

Alejandro Adem has just been elected as Chair of the Governing Board of the Global Research Council (GRC). https://globalresearchcouncil.org/about/governing-board/read more

Ritesh Goenka has won the UBC Mathematics World Cup Pool

This prize is awarded infrequently to the person who submits the most accurate prediction of results at a major sporting event. Ritesh was the clear winner of the 2022 World Cup edition with 72 points. Natalia Accomazzo Scotti was a close second place with 59 points. Ritesh is awarded the title of... read more

Stephanie van Willigenburg has been appointed as the next Associate Dean, Equity Diversity and Inclusion, in the Faculty of Science (effective Sept 01, 2022)

Malabika Pramanik and Pablo Shmerkin have been invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians (2022)

The Cyclic Group won the Fall 2021 UBC Go By Bike Week/Bike to Work Week trophy! (2021)

Ozgür Yilmaz will be PIMS Director from July 1, 2022

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is crucially important to our department and it is great to see that their board made the right choice in choosing our colleague Ozgür Yilmaz to be the next director. More details here: https://www.pims.math.ca/news/pims-board-announces-new-... read more

UBC undergraduate student success in the Putnam competition (2022)

In a competition comprising 2,975 students from 427 institutions from both US and Canada, two of our students, Ray Ng and Arvin Sahami scored tied for the 136th place in the competition (i.e., top 5% of all students in the competition), which is an excellent performance! Overall, there were 25... read more