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 |
|---|---|---|
| Schmidt, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Machine learning; Numerical Optimizaiton; Probabilistic Graphical Models; Causality |
| Schoof, Christian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Geophysics; Ice and Snow; Transformation and Evolution of the Earth Surface; Fluid mechanics; Hydraulic; Asymptotic and Classical Applied Analysis; Differential Equation; applied mathematics; glacier hydrology; Glaciology; ice sheet dynamics |
| Semenoff, Gordon Walter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Particle physics theory (including aspects of field theory and string theory); Physical sciences; Moedal experiment, Large Hadron Collider, CERN; String theory, quantum field theory, statistical mechanics; Theoretical and mathematical physics, the physics of elementary particles, condensed matter physics |
| Sheffer, Alla | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer graphics, shape modeling and geometry processing |
| Slade, Gordon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Renormalisation, Lace explansion, self-avoiding walk, scaling limits |
| Solymosi, Jozsef | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Additive Combinatorics, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Graph theory, and Combinatorial Number Theory |
| Swindale, Nicholas Vaughan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Bioinformatics; Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Eye and Visual System Diseases; Neuronal Modeling; Neuronal Systems; Visual System |
| Thachuk, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Reaction dynamics, mathematical techniques, Chemical physics |
| van Willigenburg, Stephanie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Combinatorics and discrete mathematics; algebraic combinatorics; Coxeter group; quasisymmetric function; Schur functions and generalizations; chromatic symmetric function |
| Vaziri, Reza | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Finite element analysis, Mechanics of composite materials, Constitutive modeling of engineering materials, Plasticity, Damage mechanics, Process modeling of composite structures, Analysis of impact and blast loading of metallic and composite structures |
| Wachs, Anthony | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | 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 |
| Wang, Yan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Quantum chemistry, Chemical physics |
| Ward, Michael Jeffrey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Applied analysis, singular perturbations, reaction-diffusion theory, mathematical modeling and scientific compution, nonlinear dynamics and applied partial differential equations |
| Wei, Juncheng | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Differential equations and integral equations in pure mathematics; Partial and ordinary differential equations; Mathematics; Geometric analysis; Mathematical biology; Nonlinear partial differential equations; reaction-diffusion systems; singular perturbations and concentration phenomena; singularity formations in fluids; Nonlinear Analysis |
| Wetton, Brian | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Scientific computing, fluid mechanics |
| Yilmaz, Ozgur | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mathematical problems related to analog-to-digital conversion, blind source separation, sparse approximations and compressed sensing, and applications in seismic signal processing |
| Zumbo, Bruno | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Psychological methodology design and analysis, and psychometrics; Statistical theory and modeling; Educational assessment and evaluation; Psychometrics and Test Theory; Mathematical sciences of measurement; Latent Variable Models, Item Response Theory, Factor Analysis, Mixed models; Validity Theory and Validation; Multivariate Analysis |