News & Updates
Professor Mark Lewis (UAlberta) awarded 2012 Killam Fellowship
Former director of the PIMS International Graduate Training Centre in Mathematical Biology, Professor Mark Lewis (UAlberta) has been awarded a prestigious Killam Fellowship. Professor Lewis’ research...
2012 PIMS Education Prize
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is now accepting nominations for the 2012 PIMS Education Prize. The prize is $1,000 and will be awarded to a member of the PIMS community who has...
Prof. Stevo Todorcevic awarded CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize
PIMS is delighted to announce that Stevo Todorcevic (University of Toronto) is the winner of the 2012 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize. Professor Todorcevic obtained his Ph.D. in 1979 in Belgrade and currently...
Accepting nominations for 2012 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award
2012 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences are pleased to announce the 2012 competition for the...
Welcome to mathtube.org!
What is mathtube.org? It is a new multimedia resource hosted by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. mathtube.org gives users easy access to mathematical seminar and lecture materials...
Announcing the PIMS Marsden Memorial Lecture Series
Photo: Alison Marsden Jerrold E Marsden (1942-2010) was a world-renowned Canadian applied mathematician. At the time of his death he was the Carl F Braun Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems at...
Mathematical and Statistical Challenges for Sustainability
In November 2010, PIMS cosponsored a meeting on ‘Mathematical and Statistical Challenges for Sustainability’. Recently a report from this meeting was published by the American Math Society. This...
New director for IGTC in Math Biology
The International Graduate Training Centre (IGTC) in Mathematical Biology is undergoing a significant change this summer. From August 1, 2011, Professor Dan Coombs of the University of British...
Welcome to Peter Hoff and Nils Bruin, new site directors at PIMS
On July 1, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences will welcome two new site directors. Professor Nils Bruin at Simon Fraser University and Professor Peter Hoff at the University of...
SFU Site Director wins Germund Dahlquist Prize
The Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences would like to congratulate Steve Ruuth who was awarded the 2011 SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize. Prof Ruuth is the PIMS site director at Simon Fraser...
2011 YWCA Women of Distinction award for Malgorzata Dubiel
Congratulations to Prof. Malgorzata Dubiel! PIMS would like to congratulate SFU’s Malgorzata Dubiel who was awarded a YWCA 2011 Women of Distinction award in the Education, Training, and Development...
Call for proposals for 2012
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is currently welcoming applications for support of conferences, workshops, seminars, Collaborative Research Groups and related activities in the...