News & Updates
PIMS and IMA Launch International Partnership
The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) launched its first major international partnership this month with a new agreement with the The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences...
2009 PIMS Education Prize Awarded to Gerda de Vries from the University of Alberta
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is delighted to inform the mathematical community that the winner of the 2009 PIMS Education Prize is Gerda de Vries from the University of...
Call for Nominations for the 2009 PIMS Education Prize
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is now accepting nominations for the 2009 PIMS Education Prize. The prize is $1,000. The prize will be awarded to a member of the PIMS community who...
INRIA delegation visits PIMS
On December 16-18, Dominique Sotteau, Director of International Affairs for INRIA (l'Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique) -the French government's agency for research in...
CRM-Fields-PIMS 2009 Prize to Martin Barlow
The Directors of the three Institutes, CRM, Fields and PIMS are pleased to announce that Martin Barlow from UBC is the recipient of the 2009 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize. Martin Barlow is a leading figure in...
PIMS special Statistics Lecture
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...
PIMS Distinguished Chair named MacArthur Fellow
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...
CMS/PIMS delegation attends meeting of the Korean Mathematical Society
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...
PIMS Post-Doc Day, Oct 25th
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
PIMS - CNRS Call for Applications 2009 - 2010
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...
Former Director Ivar Ekeland elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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...
PIMS Summer Math Camps Featured in the Vancouver Sun
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...