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PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

Please join us on February 27th as we welcome Jordan Ellenberg for a talk titled “A conjecture of Smyth and solving non-deterministic equations” at 1:30 PM PT.

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award helps provides funding for researchers attending a BIRS 5-day (or longer) program to maximize the impact of their travel by visiting a PIMS site for collaboration.

PIMS/BIRS Team Up! Pathways to Inclusive Research

PIMS offers collaborative opportunities for those who have faced barriers such as family obligations, isolation or limited funding. Apply today!

PIMS Education Prize

Do you know someone who has made a significant impact on education in the mathematical sciences? Nominations are now open for the 2025 PIMS Education Prize! This award celebrates outstanding contributions to education within the PIMS community.

The PIMS mandate is to promote excellent research and applications of the mathematical sciences, to facilitate the training of highly qualified personnel, to create an equitable, diverse and inclusive community in the mathematical sciences, to enrich public awareness of and education in mathematics and to create partnerships with similar organizations around the world.

Upcoming Events

Depth and width parameters of graphs, e.g., tree-width, path-width and tree-depth, play a crucial role in algorithmic and structural graph theory. These notions are of fundamental importance in the theory of graph minors, fixed parameter complexity...

In 1770 Euler observed that 3 3 + 4 3 + 5 3 = 6 3 and asked if there was another perfect power that equals the sum of consecutive cubes. This captivated the attention of many important mathematicians, such as Cunningham, Catalan, Genocchi and Lucas...

Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills at the Math Circle Workshops. This is an enrichment program for students organized by the faculty members of the Department of Mathematics at the...

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The Deligne-Mumford compactification, M 0 , n ⎯ ⎯ ⎯ ⎯ ⎯ ⎯ ⎯ ⎯ ⎯ ⎯ ⎯ , of the moduli space of n distinct ordered points on ℙ 1 , has many well understood geometric and topological properties. For example, it is a smooth projective variety over its...

Join us for an engaging presentation on "Unraveling the Mathematics of Single-Cell Dynamics" with Dr. Anotida Madzvamuse. This event is part of the UBC Applied Science Black Excellence in STEM (BEST) Speaker Series, in collaboration with the...

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Important Dates

March 14, 2025

PIMS Education Prize Nomination Deadline

April 15, 2025

PIMS-BIRS TeamUp! Application Deadline

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Collaborative Research Groups (CRG)

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Latest News & Updates

PIMS is thrilled to announce the Dr. Christos Thrampoulidis, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC, has been awarded the 2024 PIMS/UBC Mathematical...

Applications are invited for the position of Co-Director Programs of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) for a term of up to five years, beginning on (preferably) September 1...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), along with the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) and the Fields Institute, is proud to announce that Dr. Leah Edelstein-Keshet...

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PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award

PIMS/BIRS Team Up! Pathways to Inclusive Research

PIMS Education Prize

Emergent Research Seminar

PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

PIMS Connection

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Important Dates

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