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Department of Mathematics, Physics and Statistics
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science
University of British Columbia Okanagan
1177 Research Road, SCI 200
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7
Canada

Email: mps.ok@ubc.ca
Please direct all general inquires to the above email address and graduate related inquiries to gradassist.mps.ok@ubc.ca.

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Research Interests: Clustering and classification via mixture models with applications to bioinformatics.

Courses & Teaching: Statistics; data science.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Convex analysis and optimization, monotone operator theory, projection methods, and applications.

Courses & Teaching: Mathematics.

Research Interests: Custom microwave techniques for measuring electromagnetic properties of materials; low-temperature conductivity and penetration depth of unconventional superconductors; complex permittivity of waste-activated sludge.

Courses & Teaching: Experimental physics; electronics; solid state physics; statistical mechanics.

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Research Interests: Computational statistics, with applications to fire science; statistical process control; statistical education. Most recently, I have been focusing on visualization methodology, using a class of techniques called Data Sharpening.

Courses & Teaching: Modelling and Simulation. Predictive Modelling. Data Visualization.

Research Interests: Combinatorial design theory and graph theory.

Courses & Teaching: Calculus; cryptography; applied abstract algebra

Research Interests: Optimal risk management strategies in neuroscience; risk management in finance.

Courses & Teaching: Financial derivatives; linear algebra; calculus.

Research Interests: Arithmetic geometry; algebraic number theory; elliptic curves; diophantine equations.

Courses & Teaching: Linear algebra.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Mathematical ecology and insect dispersal.

Courses & Teaching: Applied mathematics; vector calculus; differential geometry; complex analysis.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Medical Imaging, MRI, Pulse Sequence Design, Image Processing, Translational Imaging

Courses & Teaching: Physics, Waves

Eric Foxall | Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track | Mathematics | efoxall@mail.ubc.ca | SCI 115

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Stochastic processes and mathematical biology

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Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Mathematical optimization; nonconvex analysis; derivative-free optimization; bundle methods; applications in road design.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Radiation oncology; radiation biophysics.

Courses & Teaching: Medical physics; biophysics.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Radio, optical, and computational astronomy. Interstellar gas, magnetic fields, and turbulence in and around the Milky Way. Photoionization and radiative transfer in interstellar gas. High velocity clouds. Cosmology and the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME).

Courses & Teaching: ASTR 110/111/112 (Astrophysics I/Astronomy I) ASTR 120/121/122 (Astrophysics II/Astronomy II) ASTR 210 (Physical Processes in the Universe) ASTR 321 (Stellar Astrophysics) ASTR 401/501 (Astrophysical Processes) PHYS 401 (Electrodynamics)

Research Interests: Condensed matter theory: geometrically frustrated magnetism (spin ice, spin liquid, dimer models); heavy fermion quantum criticality. Physics Education: online vs. in-person, gender and minority differences in standardized testing.

Courses & Teaching: First year physics; thermodynamics; statistical mechanics; environmental physics; particle physics; electromagnetism; quantum mechanics; solid state physics.

Andrew Jirasek | Associate Dean, Professor | Medical Physics, Analytics in Medical Sciences (AiMs) Institute | andrew.jirasek@ubc.ca | ASC 354

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Medical physics; radiation oncology physics; Raman spectroscopy; 3D radiation dosimetry.

Courses & Teaching: Medical physics; quantum mechanics; data and image processing.

Jennifer Kerr | Department Manager | Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Medical Physics, Physics, Statistics | jennifer.kerr@ubc.ca | SCI 106

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Change point analysis; saddle point approximation; inverse moment approximation; k-sample inference, and cluster analysis.

Research Interests: Nonparametric statistics, distance metric learning, clustering, change-point analysis; Applications to wildfire science, behavioural finance and climate finance.

Courses & Teaching: Advanced regression. Environmetrics.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Algebraic topology; manifold calculus of functors and its applications to spaces of embeddings; homotopy theory; mathematics education.

Courses & Teaching: Calculus; Matrix Algebra; Applied Linear Algebra; Topology

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Mathematical biology and spatial ecology; mathematical models of ecological systems; the development and analysis of mathematical and computational models; cyclic predator-prey populations.

Courses & Teaching: Mathematical biology; partial differential equations; ordinary differential equations; numerical analysis.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Mixture models; supervised and unsupervised learning; computational statistics and biostatistics.

Courses & Teaching: Statistics, data science.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Variational analysis; convex analysis; optimization; classical analysis; optimization applications in signal processing; statistics; communications.

Courses & Teaching: Optimization; analysis; calculus.

Graduate student supervisor

Research Interests: Combinatorics; discrete geometry; realization spaces of polytopes and matroids; interaction of problems in combinatorics with applied algebraic geometry and optimization; equiangular lines and combinatorial problems arising from applications to digital communications.

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis; functional surfaces; nano science; photocatalysis; air and water treatment.

Courses & Teaching: PHYS, DATA, STAT

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