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
Shmerkin, Pablo Metric and fractal geometry; fractal geometry; Harmonic Analysis; ergodic theory; Connections with additive combinatorics and probability
Silberman, Lior Mathematics and statistics; Mathematics; Analysis on manifolds; Automorphic forms; Group Theory; Homogenous dynamics; Metric geometry; Number theory; Representation Theory; Topology
Slade, Gordon Renormalisation, Lace explansion, self-avoiding walk, scaling limits
Solymosi, Jozsef Additive Combinatorics, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Graph theory, and Combinatorial Number Theory
Tsai, Tai-Peng Differential equations and integral equations in pure mathematics; Partial Differential Equations; Mathematical physics
van Willigenburg, Stephanie Combinatorics and discrete mathematics; algebraic combinatorics; Coxeter group; quasisymmetric function; Schur functions and generalizations; chromatic symmetric function
Vatsal, Vinayak Canonical periods, congruence formula, elliptic curve, Iwasawa invariants, Heegner points, L-functions
Wachs, Anthony Fluidization and fluid mechanics; Process control and simulation in chemical engineering; Numerical computation; Fluid mechanics; Particle-laden flows; Non Newtonian flows; Heat and mass transfer; Numerical simulation; High performance computing; Multi-scale modelling
Ward, Michael Jeffrey Applied analysis, singular perturbations, reaction-diffusion theory, mathematical modeling and scientific compution, nonlinear dynamics and applied partial differential equations
Watson, Liam Topology; Low-dimensional topology; Khovanov homology; Heegaard Floer homology
Wetton, Brian Scientific computing, fluid mechanics
Williams, Ben Topology; Algebra; Algebraic topology; Motivic homotopy theory; A1 homotopy theory
Yavicoli, Alexia fractal geometry; Harmonic Analysis; geometric measure theory; Number theory; ergodic theory
Yilmaz, Ozgur Mathematical problems related to analog-to-digital conversion, blind source separation, sparse approximations and compressed sensing, and applications in seismic signal processing
Zahl, Joshua Combinatorics and discrete mathematics; Lie groups, harmonic and Fourier analysis; Harmonic Analysis; Combinatorics; Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry