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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alacaoglu, Ahmet | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Mathematical optimization; Machine learning; Mathematical operations research; Numerical optimization; Machine Learning; Stochastic algorithms; Min-max games; Monotone operator theory |
| 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; Climate Changes and Impacts; Ground Water and Water Tables; Groundwater Ecohydrology; Groundwater-Surfacewater & land Interaction; Hydro-geological Engineering; Hydrological Cycle; 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; Machine Learning; optimization; 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; 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 |