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🗣️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
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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
November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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📢 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! 🌟
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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
November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Mathav Murugan on being awarded the PIMS/UBC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Award 👏.
🎉 Congrats to Prof. Mathav Murugan, winner of the PIMS/UBC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Award! 🏆

Murugan is an Associate Prof. at UBC, and a former PIMS Postdoc.This award recognizes early-career contributions to math and its applications.

👏 Congratulations!

#PIMS #UBC #Mathematics
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
🗣️ 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
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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
November 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
🧬🦠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
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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
October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🚨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
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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
October 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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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
October 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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
October 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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.
October 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
🎉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
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
UBC Math welcomes Maxine Calle (U Penn) to our Topology seminar on Tues, Oct 28.

🗣️ Talk title: "Cut-and-paste K-theory of manifolds and SK-automorphisms"

This seminar is part of the @pims.math.ca CRG Diagram Categories in Homotopy Theory

🕐 1 - 2 PM
📍 Online

More details 👉 tinyurl.com/4ndp6sfj
October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
❌ Tomorrow's department colloquium has been cancelled.
UBC Math welcomes Robert McCann from the University of Toronto to our department colloquium on Oct 24.

🗣️ Talk title: "A geometric approach to regularity for optimal transport maps."

📆 Oct 24
🕒 3 - 4 PM
📍 ESB 2012 & Online

More info 👉 tinyurl.com/5dkk7yu2
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The UBC Math probability seminar welcomes Dragos Oprea (UC San Diego) for a talk titled "The twisted Hodge numbers of the Quot schemes of zero dimensional quotients over curves" on Mon, Oct 27.

🕒 3 - 4 PM
📍 MATH 126

Full details 👉 tinyurl.com/bddrkmvn
October 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Join us on Oct 28th for a special number theory seminar. Talks by:

🗣️ Haruzo Hida (UCLA)
↪️ Talk title: Adjoint L-value and the Tate conjecture
🔗 tinyurl.com/2h622jpm

🗣️Nike Vatsal (UBC)
↪️ Talk title: Perfectoid Rings and p-adic L-functions
🔗 tinyurl.com/mxeavtrk

🕙 10 AM - 12 PM
📍 MATH 202
October 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM