Mathematics

Mathematicians use theoretical and computational methods to solve a wide range of problems from the most abstract to the very applied. UBC's mathematics graduate students work in many branches of pure and applied mathematics.

Name Research Interests
Hermon, Jonathan probability theory; Markov chains and the cutoff phenomenon; particle systems; percolation
Holmes-Cerfon, Miranda Mathematical modelling and simulation; Computational methods in statistics; Numerical analysis; Thermodynamics and statistical physics
Karu, Kalle Algebraic geometry, toric varieties, log geometry, combinatorics of fans and posets
Kenne, Steve Cyrille Calculus of variations, systems theory and control theory; Partial and ordinary differential equations; Mathematical biology; Optimal control theory; Partial Differential Equations; Multiscale modelling of infectious diseases
Kim, Young-Heon Partial Differential Equations and Geometry
Laba, Izabella Harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory and additive combinatorics
Li, Yue-Xian Calcium signalling in neuroendocrine cells Fertilization calcium waves in oocytes
Loewen, Philip Mathematical optimization; Calculus of Variations; Optimal Control; optimization; Machine Learning
MacDonald, Colin List of publications; The Closest Point Method: a new method for PDEs on surfaces; Time-stepping for PDEs: constructing Runge-Kutta methods, strong-stability-preserving methods (visit the SSP Site); WENO spatial discretizations; The Predicted Sequential Regularization Method; List of talks and presentations.
Madzwamuse, Anotida
Marcus, Brian Harry Coding and information theory, symbolic dynamics, ergodic theory and dynamical systems
Martin, Gregory Number theory, Diophantine Approximation and Classical Analysis
Murugan, Mathav Probability theory; Metric and fractal geometry; Differential equations and integral equations in pure mathematics; Metric geometry; potential theory; probability theory and analysis; quasiconformal mappings; Relationship between Markov processes and the geometry of the underlying state space; Quasisymmetric Uniformization; Analysis and diffusions on fractals
Ollivier, Rachel Langlands Programme, a central theme in pure mathematics which predicts deep connections between number theory and representation theory;
Ortner, Christoph Numerical analysis; Mathematical modelling and simulation; Partial and ordinary differential equations; Computational chemistry; Condensed matter modelling and density functional theory; Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation; Numerical Analysis & Scientific Computing; Applied Analysis; Multi-scale Modelling and Coarse-graining; Molecular Simulation; Scientific Machine-learning, in particular for applications in multi-scale modelling
Peirce, Anthony Scientific computing, nonlinear dynamics and applied partial differential equations
Picard, Sebastien Differential geometry
Plan, Yaniv applied probability, high-dimensional inference, random matrix theory, compressive sensing, and matrix completion.
Pramanik, Malabika Harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, several complex variables
Ramdorai, Sujatha Algebraic theory of quadratic forms, non-cummutative Iwasawa theory, motives
Rechnitzer, Andrew Enumerative combinatorics, Simulation of combinatorial objects, Lattice statistical mechanics
Reichstein, Zinovy Group theory and generalisations; Algebra; Algebraic groups; algebraic geometry
Robeva, Elina Statistical theory and modeling; Machine learning; Algebra; Algebraic statistics; Graphical Models; Tensor decomposition; Causality; Applied algebraic geometry; Shape-constrained density estimation; Tensor networks
Saffirio, Chiara kinetic theory, scaling limits in interacting particle systems, semiclassical analysis and theoretical aspects of partial differential equations
Schiebinger, Geoffrey Genomics; Mathematics and statistics; Applied & Theoretical Statistics; Computational Genomics; data science; Genetics; Genome Sciences; Machine Learning; Measurement technologies; Models Inference and Algorithms; Single-cell RNA sequencing; Theory of Statistics