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

Mathematics lies at the heart of AI and investment in these mathematical foundations is the critical key to becoming a true global AI leader. Drs. Deanna Needell and Ozgur Yilmaz (@ubcmath.bsky.social) write in the @ca.theconversation.com

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

Adam Martens of UBC Mathematics talks about the geometry of gift wrapping—and why you can’t wrap a ball perfectly (so don’t even bother!). @ubcmath.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjoF...

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

The UBC Math department colloquium welcomes Kenneth McLaughlin for a talk titled "Asymptotic analysis of Riemann-Hilbert problems, from the behavior of N! to the theory of soliton gases" on Nov 21. 🕒 3 - 4 PM 📍 ESB 2012 & online More info 👉 tinyurl.com/4euz6brf

UBC Math undergrads - our next undergraduate colloquium takes place on Thursday, Nov 27th. 🕒 3:45 - 5:15 PM📍 MATH 203. What to expect: ✅ 3 talks by former math undergrad research students ✅ A Q&A session ✅ Refreshments Space is limited. Register today 👉 tinyurl.com/2w4245xp

Our graduate programs virtual info session is one week away! 🗓️ Discover how our MSc and PhD programs can prepare you for a career in biostatistics, AI, machine learning, and beyond! Register today 👉 tinyurl.com/47y4dc49

📢 Next Wednesday! Join us for the CPS Special Seminar featuring Dr. Yu-Chen Cheng Title: “Exploring Cell Heterogeneity: Implications for Treatment Variability and Resistance” 📌 Nov 19 at 2pm in ESB 5104 and on Zoom We hope to see you there! 🌟

Join us on Mon, Nov 17 as UBC Math Prof. Zinovy Reichstein gives a talk titled "On the Cremona dimension of a finite p-group" during our weekly algebra & algebraic geometry seminar. 🕒 3 - 4 PM 📍 MATH 126 Details: tinyurl.com/mphx697j

Congratulations to Dr. Mathav Murugan on being awarded the PIMS/UBC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Award 👏.

Reminder: the UBC Math Learning Centre is open on Thurs, Nov 13. Hours: 🕛12 - 5 PM 📍MATH 102 🕔5 - 7 PM 📍Online ⛔ The MLC will be CLOSED from Nov 10 - 12 & Nov 14 Open to 1st & 2nd year undergrads who are looking for math support! 📚 Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/2trb66mn

Join us on Nov 11 at UBC's War Memorial Gymnasium for a ceremony to commemorate Remembrance Day. All UBC students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to attend—to honour and remember all those who served in times of war, military conflict and peace. More info: tinyurl.com/78ypt3pp

Evan Marth joins the UBC Math algebra & algebraic geometry seminar on Mon, Nov 10. 🗣️ Talk title: "Motives of certain hyperplane sections of homogeneous varieties". 🕒 3 - 4 PM 📍 MATH 126 Details 👉 tinyurl.com/yf847reu

🗣️ Join us Nov 7 for our weekly UBC Math department colloquium. Assistant Prof. of Teaching Nahid Walji will share insights in his talk, “Supporting student growth: connecting students with mathematics.” 🕒 3 - 4 PM 📍 ESB 2012 & Online More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/y7u3nzb2

1st & 2nd year undergrads - if you're in need of some math help, make sure to visit our Math Learning Centre (MLC). Mon - Fri: 🔸12 - 5 PM 📍MATH 102 🔸5 - 7 PM 📍Online ☑️The MLC will be closed from Nov 10 - 12 & on Nov 14, but will be OPEN on Thurs, Nov 13. More details 👉 tinyurl.com/2trb66mn

🧬🦠UBC Math-Bio Seminar: Dr. Nargess Khalilgharibi (University College London) joins us for a talk titled "The role of basement membrane mechanics in the form and function of tissues" on Wed, Nov 5. 🕙10 - 11 AM 📍Online Learn more ➡️ tinyurl.com/3ptf2ebp

Exciting news! UBC Math’s Mathav Murugan will be joining our weekly Probability Seminar to present his recent work, which provides an affirmative resolution to the Energy Image Density Conjecture proposed by Bouleau and Hirsch. 📆 Nov 5 🕞 3:30 - 4:30 PM 📍 ESB 2012 More info 👉 tinyurl.com/yc39jvrn

🚨Location change 👻🎃Due to poor weather conditions, our Halloween event will take place in MATX 1118 - the Math Undergraduate Lounge. Stop by, play games and win some sweet treats! 🍬🍫 Where: Undergrad lounge (MATX 1118) When: Fri, Oct 31 Time: 11 am - 12 pm Details 👉 tinyurl.com/yjhdkhnj

UBC Math alumnus Severin Schraven returns for a DG-MP-PDE talk on Nov 4! 🗣️ Talk title: Expansion coefficients of powers of Vandermonde determinants. 📆 Nov 4 🕞 3:30 - 4:30 PM 📍 ESB 4127 Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/nhzdwku8

Thinking about a Master's or PhD in Statistics? 📊 Our grad programs applications are open! 🔹 MSc Program (20 months) | Deadline: January 5, 2026. 🔹 PhD Program (4-5 years) | Deadline: December 1, 2025. Learn more at our virtual info session on Nov 18th (9 AM PST). Register: tinyurl.com/47y4dc49

Our next Math Department Colloquium will feature a talk titled "Algebraic fiberings of groups" by Kasia Jankiewicz. All are welcome! 📅 Oct 31 🕒 3 - 4 PM 📍ESB 2012 & online More details 👉 tinyurl.com/3u5s6d7y

UBC postdoc Rentian Yao will give a talk titled "From Snapshots to Dynamics: An Optimal Transport Approach" at the next probability seminar on Oct 29. 🕞 3:30 - 4:30 PM 📍 ESB 2012 Learn more👉 tinyurl.com/4acat95d

The UBC Applied Mathematics Meeting took place this past weekend, organized by the SIAM Student Chapter at UBC. Mathematicians and industry professionals shared insights on applied math in action! Thank you to everyone who attended and/or spoke at the event.

🎉Congrats to Dr. Melania Alvarez, recipient of the 2025 IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Pre-University Education for her visionary, inclusive STEM outreach programs which empower students at all levels! 👏 Learn more ➡️ tinyurl.com/4nxve85x