July, 2011: The work of UBC Alumnus Ryan Lukeman (PhD 2009) on collective behavior was featured in the German weekly news magazine, Spiegel online link: http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,775491,00.html Read More
March 2012: The 2010/11 Peter Larkin award
The UBC Institute of Applied Mathematics has won the 2010/11 Peter Larkin award, which is granted annually to a graduate programme or department that has significantly contributed to student development and graduate education. Read More
May 2011: The President of the CAIMS Board
Prof. Ian Frigaard, has been elected President of the CAIMS Board for the term of 2011-2013. Read More
April 2011: The 2011 CAIMS-MITACS Industrial Mathematics Prize
Prof. Ian Frigaard, has been awarded the 2011 CAIMS-MITACS Industrial Mathematics Prize for his distinguished contributions to the theory of dynamics of non-Newtonian fluids as well as industrial applications using mathematical modelling for oil well construction. Read More
April 2011: The 2011 CAIMS Research Prize
A former IAM Director, Prof. Michael Ward, has been awarded the 2011 CAIMS Research Prize for his significant successful combination of singular perturbation techniques and numerical methods to analyze boundary-value problems arising in a wide range of applied fields. Read More