News & Updates
PIMS Welcomes a New Site Director!
Effective September 1, Professor Weiran Sun will join PIMS as a site director. Professor Weiran Sun is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University. Broadly...
Call for Proposals: January 2021 Graduate Courses
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is looking for participants in a pilot program to promote the development and offering of graduate courses available to students across the...
Call for applications: PIMS supported seminars
PIMS Supported Seminars There is a change in procedure for seminar funding in the 2020-2021 funding cycle. Applications for PIMS supported seminars for the 2020 - 2021 academic year should be...
PIMS Invites 2021 Activity Proposals
The Scientific Review Panel is now accepting submissions for funding proposals. The deadline to submit a proposal is October 15, 2020. Click here for more details.
Leadership Transition Update
It has been an honour to serve as Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS). After some consideration, I have chosen to not seek a renewal of my term. A process to select...
Two New Site Directors!
This July, PIMS will welcome two new site directors, Professor Thomas Hillen at the University of Alberta and Professor Allen Herman at the University of Regina. Thomas Hillen is a faculty member at...
PIMS 2020 Education Award Winner Announced!
PIMS is pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Education Prize is Dr. Fok-Shuen Leung! Dr. Leung is a tenured Senior Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at UBC Vancouver and the recipient...
COVID-19 Collaborations
The federal government has announced a significant funding commitment to help partners and research teams spanning across universities to help combat COVID-19. This collaborative team includes the...
PIMS 2020 Collaborative Research Groups Announced
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to award two 2020 Collaborative Research Group Awards to Novel Techniques in Low Dimension: Floer Homology, representation theory...
Call for proposals for PIMS Network-wide Graduate Courses
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is looking for participants in a pilot program to promote the development and offering of graduate courses available to students across the...
PIMS Announces PIMS-Globalink Student Mobility Program
PIMS-Globalink Student Mobility Program - Mitacs partner countries to CANADA PIMS is pleased to offer a new program, in partnership with Mitacs and leveraging Mitacs Globalink, to support visits by...
2020 PIMS Education Prize: Nominations Open
Nominations are now open for the 2020 PIMS Education Prize. The PIMS Education Prize is be awarded annually to a member of the PIMS community who has made a significant contribution to education in...