News & Updates
PIMS Public Lecture: Using Mathematics to Fight Cancer
PIMS is excited to present Dr Ami Radunskaya from Pomona College, in a talk about where Mathematics meets Medicine on the front lines of cancer research. This talk is part of our Diversity in...
2018 IPSW Registration Closing August 7
Registration closes on August 7th for the last, PIMS IPSW of the summer! Ideas from the mathematical sciences are constant, ubiquitous drivers of transformation in industries. In June 2018, the bcdata...
PIMS Announces PIMS-Europe Fellowships
PIMS-Europe (CNRS UMI #3069) is announcing a new program, the PIMS-Europe Fellowships, with the goal of developing and supporting research collaborations between mathematical scientists at PIMS member...
PIMS Invites 2019 Activity Proposals
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invites applications for support of activities in the mathematical sciences to occur after April 1, 2019. Here are just some of the...
PIMS Sponsors AARMS Industrial Problem Solving Workshop at Dalhousie University
PIMS is excited to sponsor the upcoming AARMS Industrial Problem Solving Workshop (IPSW) to be held at Dalhousie from July 3 to 6, 2018. During this workshop, faculty and postdocs will work...
PIMS Celebrates the 20th Annual ELMACON
Started in 1999, ELMACON was designed to give elementary school students in grades five through seven the chance to experience mathematics as an exciting and challenging competition. Organized by PIMS...
Alexander Bihlo Named Recipient of the 2018 CAIMS & PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics
CAIMS and PIMS are pleased to announce Alexander Bihlo of Memorial University as the winner of the 2018 Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics. Alexander Bihlo is a meteorologist and numerical...
4-week Math Summer School for Elementary School Teachers
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the Departments of Mathematics at UBC, and SFU will be offering a 4-week Math Summer School for Elementary School Teachers this summer. The...
Julia Pevtsova to Receive 2018 PIMS Education Prize
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) announces that Julia Pevtsova has been selected as the winner of the 2018 PIMS Education Prize. Dr. Pevtsova is a professor of mathematics in...
Ben Williams Wins 2018 PIMS | UBC Mathematics Faculty Award
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce Dr. Benedict Williams as the recipient of the 2017 UBC Mathematics & Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences...
Callysto Website Launches
We are building Canada's digital generation with Callysto, a pilot project by Cybera and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and funded by Canada's CanCode Grant. We have officially...
Volunteer for the 20th ELMACON
ELMACON is looking for volunteers for our 20th anniversary competition taking place on Saturday, April 28, 2018. For 20 years, ELMACON has given students from grades 5 to 7 a chance to experience...