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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
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
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
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 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
📣 Last day to register📣

Don't forget to register for the Applied Mathematics Meeting on Oct 25 @ UBC (📍MATH 100).

🔸 A full-day conference
🔸 Talks & poster sessions
🔸 Networking opportunities

Register now 👉 www.ubcsiamchapter.ca/sign-up
October 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
UBC Math Probability Seminar Alert! 🚨 Join us on Oct 22nd to hear from our very own Gordon Slade.

🗣️ Talk title: "A random walk approach to high-dimensional critical phenomena "

📆 Oct 22
🕞 3:30 - 4:30 PM
📍 ESB 2012

Details 👉 tinyurl.com/9u6tw3x2
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Several of our faculty will speak at the PIMS Scientific Session on Oct 23! This special event features a visit from Christophe Besse & Frédéric Hérau of INSMI/CNRS Mathematics. UBC Math community - please join us!

📅 Oct 23
🕧 12:30 - 4:15
📍 ESB 4133

More information: tinyurl.com/bw948nab
October 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
There are only a few days left to register for the Applied Mathematics Meeting which takes place at UBC on Oct 25.

Themes:
✔️ Optimization
✔️ Math-Bio
✔️ Mathematical Physics
✔️ Discrete ML
✔️ Applied Algebraic Geometry

Register by Oct 18 👉 www.ubcsiamchapter.ca/sign-up
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October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This Friday, Izabella Laba will give a talk titled 🗣️ "A survey of integer tilings" at the weekly UBC Math department colloquium.

📅 Oct 17
🕒 3 - 4 PM
📍 ESB 2012 & online

☕🍪Coffee/tea & snacks will be served @ 2:30 PM

Details 👉 tinyurl.com/yc6mjtv3
October 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Our office will be closed on Monday, October 13th for Thanksgiving Day.
October 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Last week, UBC’s Math-Bio research group hosted four South African researchers through the USDP-BCAM program. This program is a key part of the ongoing research exchange activities between Canada and South Africa. Thank you to our speakers. We look forward to deepening our collaboration 🇨🇦🇿🇦.
October 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Join us this Fri, OctIf 10 for the UBC Math Department Colloquium as we welcome Alex Iosevich from the University of Rochester. tinyurl.com/3euwf4h5

🗣️Talk title: Restriction theory, signal recovery and applications

🕒 3 - 4 PM
📍 ESB 2012 & Online

Join us for coffee, tea & snacks at 2:30 PM ☕🍪
October 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM