The Institute of Applied Mathematics promotes interdisciplinary research in the mathematical sciences at UBC by bringing together students and faculty who do mathematical work within a variety of disciplines. The Institute’s faculty and student members come from many different departments and faculties across the university, including the physical, chemical, biological, and engineering sciences. Students affiliated with the IAM pursue interdisciplinary masters and doctoral studies in applied and computational mathematics.
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Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Allen, Susan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Atmospheric sciences; Oceanography; coastal oceanography; coupled bio-physics and chem-physics and all three models; forecast models; Oceans and Inland Waters; physical oceanography; Prediction and Climatic Modeling |
| Ameli, Ali | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Geology; Applied Hydro-geochemistry; Climate Changes and Impacts; Environmental Tracer; Ground Water and Water Tables; Groundwater Ecohydrology; Groundwater-Surfacewater & land Interaction; Hydro-geological Engineering; Hydrological Cycle and Reservoirs; Numerical analysis; Watershed Management |
| Austin, Philip | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | global climate; climate change; greenhouse effect; global warming; clouds; lightning; storms, Cloud physics, radiative properties of layer clouds, status cirrus formation, global climate, cloug aerosol feedbacks and climate |
| Bacca, Mattia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mechanical engineering; Medical and biomedical engineering; Solid Mechanics; Biophysics; Soft materials; Fracture Mechanics and Adhesion |
| Baldwin, Susan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioprocess engineering, bioremediation, biomedical reaction modelling |
| Balmforth, Neil | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics and applied partial differential equations |
| Beckie, Roger | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other environmental engineering and related engineering; Hydrogeology; Mine drainage; physical hydrogeology; groundwater geochemistry; groundwater contamination |
| Bushe, William Kendal | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Numerical modelling and mechanical characterisation; Automotive combustion and fuel engineering (including alternative and renewable fuels); Hypersonic propulsion and hypersonic aerodynamics; Aerospace engineering, n.e.c.; Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion; Reacting Flows; Energy Conversion Systems; clean energy |
| Cao, Yankai | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Chemical engineering; optimization; Artificial Intelligence; Renewable energy systems; Process Control |
| Cembrowski, Mark Steven | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Molecular neuroscience; Mathematical modelling and simulation; Mechanisms of memory in the brain; Anxiety; Big Data; Bioinformatics; Cell types; Computation; CRISPR-Cas9; Fear; Genetics; modeling; Neural circuits; neuroscience; Neuroscience of memory; PTSD; RNAseq |
| Choptuik, Matthew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Theoretical physics, Relativity/Computational Physics |
| Colliander, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | hamiltonian dynamical systems; partial differential equations; harmonic analysis |
| Condon, Anne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Algorithms; Molecular Programming |
| Coombs, Daniel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mathematical biology; Cellular immunology; Complex physical systems; Epidemiology (except nutritional and veterinary epidemiology); Cell Signaling and Infectious and Immune Diseases; Cell biophysics; Disease models; Epidemiology; Immune cell signalling; Mathematics |
| Cytrynbaum, Eric | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bacterial cell division, Microtubule and cellular organization, Wave propagation in excitable media |
| Dao Duc, Khanh | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Genomics; Mathematical biology; Neurocognitive patterns and neural networks; Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling; combine mathematical,computational and statistical tools to study fundamental biological processes; regulation and determinants of gene expression and translation; Machine Learning for Biological Imaging and Microscopy; Database development and management; Biological and Artificial Neural Networks for geometric representation |
| Doebeli, Michael Walter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mathematical ecology and evolution, evolution of diversity, adaptive speciation, evolution of cooperation, game theory, experimental evolution in microorganisms |
| Donaldson, R Glen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Risk management, Volatility forecasting, Asset valuation, Financial econometrics, Financial markets and price behavior |
| Elfring, Gwynn | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Theoretical Fluid Mechanics, Complex Fluids, Cell Biomechanics, Capillary Phenomena, Applied Mathematics |
| Feng, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Chemical engineering; Mathematics and statistics; Biophysics; Complex fluids; Fluid mechanics; Mathematical biology |
| Friedlander, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | numerical optimization, numerical linear algebra, scientific computing, Scientific computing |
| Friedman, Joel | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Algebraic Graph Theory; Combinatorics; Computer Science Theory |
| Frigaard, Ian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fluid mechanics (visco-plastic fluids) |
| Gopaluni, Bhushan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Modelling and experiment design, identification for control |
| Green, Sheldon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Fluid Mechanics; Biological and Biochemical Mechanisms; building ventilation; railroads; papermaking |
| Greif, Chen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Numerical computation; Numerical analysis; scientific computing; numerical linear algebra; numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations |
| Haber, Eldad | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Scientific computing and its application to geophysical and medical imaging |
| Harvey, Nicholas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | randomized algorithms, combinatorial optimization, graph sparsification, discrepancy theory and learning theory; algorithmic problems arising in computer networking, including cache analysis, load balancing, data replication, peer-to-peer networks, and network coding. |
| Hauert, Christoph | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mathematics and statistics; Modelization and Simulation; Evolution and Phylogenesis; Biological Behavior; dynamical systems; evolution; game theory; social dilemmas; stochastic processes |
| Heitz, Matthieu | Postdoctoral Fellow | Algorithms and computational genomics; Optimal Transport; Machine Learning; Bioinformatics |
| Li, Yue-Xian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Calcium signalling in neuroendocrine cells Fertilization calcium waves in oocytes |
| MacDonald, Colin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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. |
| Marcus, Brian Harry | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Coding and information theory, symbolic dynamics, ergodic theory and dynamical systems |
| Martinez, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Chemical engineering; Complex fluids; Flow visualization; Fluid mechanics |
| Mitchell, Ian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | safety critical systems, assistive technology (mobility), robotics, scientific computing, cyber-physical systems, Mathematical software, computational science and engineering, hybrid and cyber-physical systems, verification and validation, reproducible research, level set methods, robotic path, planning |
| Ollivier-Gooch, Carl | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Aerodynamics (except hypersonic aerodynamics); Computational fluid mechanics; Algorithm Development for Computational Fluid Dynamics; Applied Aerodynamics; Numerical analysis; Unstructured Mesh Generation; Error and Stability Analysis for Unstructured Mesh Methods; Computer Sciences and Mathematical Tools; Fluid mechanics |
| Ortner, Christoph | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 |
| Paat, Joseph | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mathematical optimization; Programming in operational research (including linear and nonlinear programming); Mixed integer programming; Combinatorial optimization; Polyhedral Geometry; Convex optimization |
| Pai, Dinesh | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Robotics, computer graphics, medical imaging, neuroscience, sensorimotor computation |
| Peirce, Anthony | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Scientific computing, nonlinear dynamics and applied partial differential equations |
| Plan, Yaniv | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | applied probability, high-dimensional inference, random matrix theory, compressive sensing, and matrix completion. |
| Plotkin, Steven | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biophysics theory and computation |
| Ponga de la Torre, Mauricio | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Spallation in Metals; Sub-linear scaling methods for calculating crystal defects using DFT; |
| Radic, Valentina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Atmospheric sciences; Geophysics; Climate Changes and Impacts; Climate Science; Glaciology; Meteorology |
| Rechnitzer, Andrew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Enumerative combinatorics, Simulation of combinatorial objects, Lattice statistical mechanics |
| Robeva, Elina | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Statistical theory and modeling; Machine learning; Algebra; Algebraic statistics; Graphical Models; Tensor decomposition; Causality; Applied algebraic geometry; Shape-constrained density estimation; Tensor networks |
| Salcudean, Tim | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Biomedical technologies, Haptic interfaces, teleoperation and simulators, medical robotics, imaging and interfaces, optimization-based design, prostate cancer |
| Schajer, Gary | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Solid mechanics; optical metrology; residual stress measurement; ESPI; DIC; wood mechanics |
| Schiebinger, Geoffrey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 |
| Schmidt, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Machine learning; Numerical Optimizaiton; Probabilistic Graphical Models; Causality |