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- Vancouver high school students: register for our Archimedes Talks this Sun, Feb 8. 🔸Angie O'Neill, Zoology - Comparing Tetrapod Skulls: How Structure Affects Feeding 🔸Eric Cytrynbaum, Math - Sticks standing upright, divers hovering: the mathematics of instability Learn more tinyurl.com/48crzhd4
- 🗣️UBC Math algebraic geometry seminar (Feb 9) welcomes Pablo Ocal (UBC) for a talk titled "The tableaux algebra, with applications to geometry and crystals". 🕒3 - 4 PM 📍Math 104 Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/26aad8bp
- UBC Math Ergodic theory & dynamical systems seminar (Feb 5): 🗣️Lior Silberman, UBC Talk title: "Homogeneous dynamics and QUE" 🕓4 - 5 PM 📍ESB 4127 Learn more: tinyurl.com/5hebaude
- February is #BlackHistoryMonth. Black history and excellence should be celebrated every day, but this month offers a dedicated opportunity to reflect, recognize and elevate Black achievements and history. Find events and resources at UBC: bit.ly/3SGImTD
- Join us at the UBC Math department colloquium on Feb 6 as we welcome Antonio Lei (uOttawa) for a talk titled "On the Iwasawa theory of digraphs". 🕒️ 3 PM - 4PM 📍 ESB 2012 & online Learn more: tinyurl.com/4vdsep5v
- UBC math undergraduates: discover what’s possible as an undergraduate in the Math Department! 📆Join us on Feb 3 as we hear from two former undergrad research students. ☑️Learn about the kind of research you could do! ☑️Q&A session ☑️Refreshments 🕓4 - 5 PM 📍MATH 203 Register: tinyurl.com/3xy8v8yb
- UBC Math Colloquium/PIMS Early Career Award Seminar (Fri, Jan 30): 🗣️Mathav Murugan, UBC - "The energy image density property" 🕒3 - 4 PM 📍ESB 2012 & Online Coffee, tea & snacks will be served from 2:30 to 3 pm at PIMS ☕🍪 🔗Learn more: tinyurl.com/y2mrsj6v @pims.math.ca
- 🧬 UBC Math Bio Seminar (Jan 28): 🗣️ Dr. Sofie Verhees, UBC - "Mathematical modelling, analysis and simulation of cellular mechanotransduction" 🕑 2 - 3 PM 📍 ESB 4133 Coffee, tea and snacks to be served in the PIMS Lounge at 3 PM ☕ 🍪 Learn more: tinyurl.com/mcxrxee8
- UBC Math faculty: submit your nominations today!
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- Last chance to apply for a summer research position! Undergrads - submit your application today! ☑️Work closely with a faculty supervisor ☑️Gain valuable research experience ☑️Strengthen your CV Learn more: tinyurl.com/ydnw39f2
- Opportunity for undergrads: apply for a summer research position ☀️📐 High-achieving undergrads can apply for NSERC USRAs & WLI URAs to work with a faculty supervisor and gain hands-on research experience. ⚠️ Apply by Jan 23, 2026 Learn more: tinyurl.com/3r495b2v
- 📐UBC Math algebraic geometry seminar (Jan 26): 🗣️Tom Graber, Caltech - "Log GW Invariants" 🕒3 - 4 PM 📍Math 104 Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/54vjpra4
- UBC Math Dept. Colloquium (Jan 23): 🗣️Tim Tian, UBC - "Plant Cortical Microtubules: Elastic Curves on Smooth Surfaces" 🕒3 - 4 PM 📍ESB 2012 & Online Coffee, tea & snacks will be served at PIMS from 2:30 - 3 PM 🍪☕ Learn more: tinyurl.com/y34yhfsn
- Opportunity for undergrads: apply for a summer research position ☀️📐 High-achieving undergrads can apply for NSERC USRAs & WLI URAs to work with a faculty supervisor and gain hands-on research experience. ⚠️ Apply by Jan 23, 2026 Learn more: tinyurl.com/3r495b2v
- Make Family Day unforgettable! Join Kids Take Over UBC on Feb 15, 10am–5pm for live music, dance, STEM, storytelling, galleries & more. Adventure awaits! Get tickets at: kidstakeover.ubc.ca
- 📸Graduating May 2026 (or graduated in Nov 2025)? Book your grad photo by Mar 30 to be included in the official 2026 composite. Book early — evenings & weekends fill fast! Book now 👉 tinyurl.com/525h9ds5
- Vancouver high school students 📐 UBC Math invites you to Archimedes Talks — a monthly seminar series exploring math & applied science. 🗓 Feb 8 | 10:30 AM–1:30 PM 📍 UBC 🎤 Angie O’Neill (Zoology) & Eric Cytrynbaum (Math) Learn more & register: tinyurl.com/359nasbs
- Need a little extra math help this term? The UBC Math Learning Centre (MLC) opens on Mon, Jan 19th! 🔸In-Person: Monday to Friday | 12 PM to 5 PM | MATH 102 🔸Online: Monday to Friday | 5 PM to 7 PM | MLC Canvas Page ☑️Open to all students taking Math courses at UBC Details 👉 tinyurl.com/yeythnvd
- UBC Math Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Jan 19): 🗣️Speaker: Dragos Ghioca, UBC - "Unilkely intersection questions in arithmetic dynamics" 🕒3 - 4 PM 📍Math 104 🔗Details: tinyurl.com/m244s673
- UBC Math welcomes Rodolfo Brandão as an Assistant Professor! 🎉 On his new role, Rodolfo shares, “I’ve followed the work of people at UBC throughout my career, so it has been a great pleasure to become part of the community.” We’re excited to have you! Read more: tinyurl.com/2us2kttf
- Ergodic Theory & Dynamical Systems Seminar - Nov 15: 🗣️Speaker: Pablo Shmerkin - "Dimensions of overlapping self-similar and self-conformal sets" 🕓4 - 5:30 PM 📍ESB 4133 Details👉https://tinyurl.com/49zfjxmj
- The UBC Math Learning Centre (MLC) opens January 19th and runs until April 24th. 🔸In-Person: Monday to Friday | 12 PM to 5 PM | MATH 102 🔸Online: Monday to Friday | 5 PM to 7 PM | MLC Canvas Page ☑️Open to all students taking Math courses at UBC Details 👉 tinyurl.com/yeythnvd
- The Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) recently spoke with UBC Math Prof. Brian Wetton about his journey from numerical analysis to real-world systems, the value of long-term collaboration, and the advice he offers students. Read the full article: tinyurl.com/mtmcjvmu youtu.be/h83HYCLC7QA?...
- UBC Math Algebraic Geometry Seminar (Jan 12): 🗣️Joshua Turner (UBC) - Haiman ideals, link homology, and affine Springer fibers 🕒3 - 4 PM 📍MATH 126 Details 👉 tinyurl.com/9zx38jsk
- Vancouver high school students 📐 UBC Math invites you to Archimedes Talks! A monthly seminar series exploring math & applied science. 🗓 Feb 8 | 10:30 AM–1:30 PM 📍 UBC 🎤 Angie O'Neill (Zoology) & Eric Cytrynbaum (Math) Learn more & register: tinyurl.com/bdupybmp @zoology.ubc.ca @science.ubc.ca
- Upcoming ergodic theory & dynamical systems seminar: 🗣️Huub de Jong - "Periodic Orbit Lengths and Markov Partitions" 📆Jan 8 🕓4 - 5 PM 📍ESB 4133 Full abstract 👉 tinyurl.com/yf8tt84z
- Join us on Jan 9 at the UBC Math Colloquium for a talk by 2025 Graduate Research Award winner Danny Ofek: “An introduction to essential dimension.” 🕒 3 - 4 PM 📍ESB 2012 & Online Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/3vjuhf2z
- Upcoming seminar: Applied Mathematics & Quantum Matter Double Seminar: Modelling of 2D Moiré Materials 📆Wed, Jan 7 🕞3:30 - 6 PM 📍AMPEL 311 🗣️Speakers: Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota) & Ziyan (Zoe) Zhu (Boston University) Talk titles & more info 👉 tinyurl.com/yzkh7atj
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- UBC Mathematics wishes all of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni a happy holiday season! We look forward to the bright year ahead! ⭐
- UBC Math postdoctoral fellow Adam Martens was on @globalnews.ca this weekend breaking down the mathematics of gift wrapping 🎁📐 Worth a watch! globalnews.ca/video/115864...
- We are proud to see one of our faculty members’ research recognized among the major developments in mathematics this year. Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Zahl on this well-deserved recognition!👏 #ubc #ubcmath #ubcscience
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- Archimedes Talks are back for 2026! Vancouver parents: Register your high schooler for a day of math & science at #UBC. 🗓 Feb 8 | 10:30AM–1:30PM🎙 Dr. Angie O’Neill (Zoology) & Dr. Eric Cytrynbaum (Math) 🎟 $20 (Scholarships available) Lunch included 🍕 Register 👉 tinyurl.com/bdupybmp
- Modelling of 2D Moiré Materials double seminar - Jan 7, 2026: Speakers: 🔸Mitchell Luskin, University of Minnesota 🔸Ziyan (Zoe) Zhu, Boston University 🕞3:30 - 6 PM 📍AMPEL 311 Learn more: tinyurl.com/yh248ykc
- UBC Math DG-MP-PDE seminar: 📌Talk title: Quasilocal mass and fill-ins 🗣️Speaker: Tin Yau Tsang, UBC 📆Dec 9 🕞3:30 - 4:30 PM 📍ESB 4127 More info ➡️ tinyurl.com/3w4dkvmf
- Join us on Dec 4 for A Morning of Iwasawa Theory & Galois Cohomology. Speakers & titles: 🔸 Anwesh Ray ➡️ Massey Products and the Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves 🔸Tam Nguyen➡️ Iwasawa theory over anticyclotomic extensions under the Heegner hypothesis 🕙 10 am - 12 pm 📍Math 102 tinyurl.com/y2t3zxhr
- 🎉Congratulations to all of our fall graduates! We wish you every success in your future endeavours.
- 🌱Exciting news for farmers and gardeners: UBC Math PhD candidate Tim Tian is using mathematical modelling to better understand plants at the cellular level. A 1st step towards growing large, climate-resilient crops! Read the full story 👉 tinyurl.com/msp3jjx6 #ubc #ubcmath #ubcscience
- 🧬UBC Math - Bio Seminar - Dec 1: 🗣️ Speaker: Dr. Wenzheng Shi 📌 Talk title: Modeling Actin Dynamics Across Scales: From Noisy Leading Edges to Chiral Microtissues 🕛 12 - 1 PM 📍 MATX 1100 Learn more ▶️ tinyurl.com/2c93p7hs
- UBC Math Department Colloquium: 🗣️ Speaker: Krystal Taylor, The Ohio State University Title: Intricate Structure, Kakaya sets, and Prescribed Projections 📅 Fri, Nov 28 🕒 3 - 4 PM 📍 ESB 2012 & online Join us for coffee/tea & snacks prior to the talk at 2:30 PM ☕ 🍪 Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/44amybb3
- UBC Math Probability Seminar - Wed, Nov 26: 🗣️ Yucheng Liu, Peking University 📌 Talk title: Subcritical two-point functions for high-dimensional statistical mechanical models 🕞 3:30 - 4:30 PM 📍 ESB 2012 Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/yh7nh5nu
- UBC Math Number Theory Seminar - Wed, Nov 26: 🗣️ Sug Woo Shin, UC Berkeley 📌 Talk title: The fundamental lemma and stabilization 🕒 3 - 4 PM 📍 MATX 1102 Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/57hz98v2
- UBC Math-Bio Seminar - Wed, Nov 26: 🗣️Dr. Anamika Agrawal, Allen Institute - University of Washington 📌Talk title: From Form to Function: Mathematical models to translate cellular physiology into neural function and dysfunction 🕑 2 - 3 PM 📍ESB 5104 Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/yt7jdduv
- UBC Mathematics would like to congratulate PhD candidates Tim Tian and Danny Ofek on being awarded the 2025 Graduate Research Award. 👏 Read more: tinyurl.com/hnmyz5k4
- UBC Math Harmonic Analysis & Fractal Geometry Seminar Tainara Borges (University of Pennsylvania) to speak on "Nonempty interior of pinned distance and tree sets" on Nov 25. 🕐 1 - 2 PM 📍 ESB 4133 Read more: tinyurl.com/2s4hr5r6
- UBC Math Undergrads - it's not too late to sign up for our Undergraduate Colloquium on November 27. This event features: 🔸3 talks by former math undergrad research students 🔸A Q&A session 🔸Refreshments 🕒3:45 - 5:15 PM 📍MATH 203 Learn more & register 👉 tinyurl.com/hpzkkr4y
- Congrats #UBCgrad Class of 2025! Graduating students, find out everything you need to know at graduation.ubc.ca/students/
- November 20th is Trans Day of Remembrance, an opportunity to honour the memory of those lost to anti-trans violence. Learn more about this day, ways to observe it, and access resources related to trans wellbeing and inclusion: events.ubc.ca/tdor. #UBC
- Join us for A Morning of Arithmetic of Algebraic Groups on Nov 26. 🗣️Speakers: 🔸Mishty Ray 🔸Amin Soofiani 🔸Nguyen Manh Linh 🔸Danny Ofek 🕥 10:30 AM - 1 PM 📍MATX 1102 Abstracts 👉 tinyurl.com/m3f7rh75
- 📅 Algebra & Agebraic Geometry Seminar - Mon, Nov 24 We're excited to welcome Manh Linh Nguyen (IMJ-PRG-Paris) for: "Patching and the nine-term Mayer-Vietoris sequence for complexes of tori" 🕒 3 - 4 PM 📍 Math 126 Details 👉 tinyurl.com/mutcewef
- 📅 UBC Math Probability Seminar - Nov 19 @ 3:30 PM 🗣️Speaker: Jonathan Hermon, UBC 📌Talk title: Every finite vertex-transitive graphs is effectively quasi-isometric to a product of 3 cycles w.r.t. the metric induced by effective resistances 📍ESB 2012 🔗Details: tinyurl.com/3myad793
- 🗣️UBC Math grad student Jingjing Zheng will give a talk titled "AdaMSS: Adaptive Multi-Subspace Approach for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning" at the grad/postdoc seminar on Nov 20. Please join us! 🕔 5 - 6 PM 📍 MATH 126 Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3akb3je4
