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🎓 Congratulations to all of our 2024 UBC Mathematics graduates! Here's to a future filled with infinite possibilities!🎉

Volunteers Needed: The ELMACON math contest for elementary school children is happening on Saturday, May 4th at UBC. @pimsmath needs your help! Sign up if you can lend a hand.

Here’s how to conquer math anxiety and succeed this semester news.ubc.ca/2023/08/29/her… via @ubcnews

@NGhoussoub @marktmaclean @pimsmath @MitacsCanada @BIRS_Math @ubcmath @gail_murphy @ArvindUofT We certainly wanted to celebrate you! As evident in the speeches, the impact you have made will certainly resonate for many years to come.

@marktmaclean @pimsmath @MitacsCanada @BIRS_Math Yes, Am very grateful for the nice retirement luncheon organized by @marlenegolf @ubcmath. Honoured by the presence of @gail_murphy, @ArvindUofT and so many other friends and colleagues. 1/

Today, we held a retirement luncheon for several UBC Mathematics colleagues, including my good friend @NGhoussoub. Besides his many contributions to research and to UBC, he was a driving force in the creation and sucess of @pimsmath @MitacsCanada and @BIRS_Math.

@DanCoombsUBC @marktmaclean @eric_cytryn We are going to compile the complaints and escalate. They told us to let the water run for 10 minutes but that does not seem to bring any hot water to the taps in MATX. We are pleasantly surprised about the replacement of two hot water tanks in MATH but no hot water yet 🤞🏼

@marktmaclean @eric_cytryn I think I experienced hot water around the time that I moved into the math annex... I think I remember noticing that it had gone away at some point?

Apparently, we have to complain more for hot water tp be installed in my building at UBC (the Mathematics Annex). I mean, it was fine to have no hot water ~100 years ago when the place was constructed, so what is there to complain about?

@marktmaclean Wow! 💕

For the past several months I have stepped on the scale once a week. This week marks 65 pounds less since late January.

@marktmaclean So sorry for your loss 💕

I learned today that my grade 3 teacher, Mrs MacKenzie, has died. She was only 81. She was the teacher who introduced me to the serious business of fractions. She also taught me cursive writing, a skill that has since morphed into the mathematician's script I use today.

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@marktmaclean Flavour Captain A

We are restructuring our first-year calculus courses -- our MATH 10X project. Within MATH 10X, there will be three "flavours": A, B, and C. I will be the "flavour captain" for "flavour A". Should we call them "flavours" to the students and should we use "flavour captain"?

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Congratulations to Leah Edelstein-Keshet for winning SIAM’s von Neumann prize - The premier research prize in applied mathematics. This couldn't have happened to a more deserving researcher, a more beautiful person, a more supportive colleague, a mentor of so many and a friend.