News & Updates

PIMS will host a special lecture by Dr. Jack Kalbfleisch from the Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, on Thursday November 13, 3:30pm, WMAX 110. Please see the details at http://www...

The MacArthur Foundation recently announced 25 new MacArthur Fellows for 2008, including Alexei Kitaev, who was a PIMS Distinguished Chair at UBC in October 2006, as part of the Collaborative Research...

At the invitation of Dohan Kim, President of the Korean Mathematical Society (KMS), a delegation of Canadian mathematicians sponsored by the Canadian Mathematical Society and PIMS attended the recent...

The PIMS Postdoc Day will take place on Saturday, October 25th. More information can be found at http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/general-event/pims-postdoc-day

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) are calling for applications from French researchers to spend the academic year...

PIMS is delighted to announce that Ivar Ekeland, former Director of PIMS (2003-2008), has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The official citation for his work reads as follows...

The graduation ceremony for the PIMS Summer Math Camps for aboriginal students attending or entering Brittania Secondary School was held at the UBC First Nations House of Learning on August 15 and it...

PIMS is delighted to announce that the University of Saskatchewan is now a full member of the PIMS consortium.Combined with the recent addition of the University of Regina, PIMS now has as its member...

The UBC site of PIMS will be closed from Monday, August 25 to Friday August 29 (inclusive) for annual maintenance. The other PIMS sites will remain open during this time.

Clifton Cunningham received his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1997. After a postdoc at the University of Massachusetts and visiting positions in Paris at the Ecole Normale Superieure, he...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is pleased to announce that it has signed a collaborative agreement with the Chern Institute of Mathematics (CIM) at Nankai University in Tianjin...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has appointed David Brydges as PIMS Deputy Director, starting on August 1, 2008. He will also...