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UBC Math Department Colloquium:

🗣️ Speaker: Krystal Taylor, The Ohio State University
Title: Intricate Structure, Kakaya sets, and Prescribed Projections

📅 Fri, Nov 28
🕒 3 - 4 PM
📍 ESB 2012 & online

Join us for coffee/tea & snacks prior to the talk at 2:30 PM ☕ 🍪

Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/44amybb3
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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UBC Math Probability Seminar - Wed, Nov 26:

🗣️ Yucheng Liu, Peking University
📌 Talk title: Subcritical two-point functions for high-dimensional statistical mechanical models
🕞 3:30 - 4:30 PM
📍 ESB 2012

Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/yh7nh5nu
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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UBC Math Number Theory Seminar - Wed, Nov 26:

🗣️ Sug Woo Shin, UC Berkeley
📌 Talk title: The fundamental lemma and stabilization
🕒 3 - 4 PM
📍 MATX 1102

Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/57hz98v2
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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UBC Math-Bio Seminar - Wed, Nov 26:

🗣️Dr. Anamika Agrawal, Allen Institute - University of Washington
📌Talk title: From Form to Function: Mathematical models to translate cellular physiology into neural function and dysfunction
🕑 2 - 3 PM
📍ESB 5104

Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/yt7jdduv
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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UBC Mathematics would like to congratulate PhD candidates Tim Tian and Danny Ofek on being awarded the 2025 Graduate Research Award. 👏

Read more: tinyurl.com/hnmyz5k4
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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UBC Math Harmonic Analysis & Fractal Geometry Seminar

Tainara Borges (University of Pennsylvania) to speak on "Nonempty interior of pinned distance and tree sets" on Nov 25.

🕐 1 - 2 PM
📍 ESB 4133

Read more: tinyurl.com/2s4hr5r6
November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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UBC Math Undergrads - it's not too late to sign up for our Undergraduate Colloquium on November 27.

This event features:
🔸3 talks by former math undergrad research students
🔸A Q&A session
🔸Refreshments

🕒3:45 - 5:15 PM
📍MATH 203

Learn more & register 👉 tinyurl.com/hpzkkr4y
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Congrats #UBCgrad Class of 2025! Graduating students, find out everything you need to know at graduation.ubc.ca/students/
November 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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November 20th is Trans Day of Remembrance, an opportunity to honour the memory of those lost to anti-trans violence. Learn more about this day, ways to observe it, and access resources related to trans wellbeing and inclusion: events.ubc.ca/tdor. #UBC
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Join us for A Morning of Arithmetic of Algebraic Groups on Nov 26.

🗣️Speakers:
🔸Mishty Ray
🔸Amin Soofiani
🔸Nguyen Manh Linh
🔸Danny Ofek

🕥 10:30 AM - 1 PM
📍MATX 1102

Abstracts 👉 tinyurl.com/m3f7rh75
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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📅 Algebra & Agebraic Geometry Seminar - Mon, Nov 24

We're excited to welcome Manh Linh Nguyen (IMJ-PRG-Paris) for:

"Patching and the nine-term Mayer-Vietoris sequence for complexes of tori"

🕒 3 - 4 PM
📍 Math 126

Details 👉 tinyurl.com/mutcewef
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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📅 UBC Math Probability Seminar - Nov 19 @ 3:30 PM

🗣️Speaker: Jonathan Hermon, UBC
📌Talk title: Every finite vertex-transitive graphs is effectively quasi-isometric to a product of 3 cycles w.r.t. the metric induced by effective resistances

📍ESB 2012 🔗Details: tinyurl.com/3myad793
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Congratulations to Dr. Mathav Murugan on being awarded the PIMS/UBC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Award 👏.
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🎉 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
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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
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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
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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
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🗣️ 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
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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
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🧬🦠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