PIMS Year in Review 2015

The year 2015 saw a significant leadership transition at PIMS. After ten years at PIMS, first as deputy director and then as director, Alejandro Adem stepped down from his position here on February 1 to become the new CEO of MITACS. Under Alejandro’s leadership PIMS has grown enormously in stature; we look forward to a similar period of growth in the next decade.

We are delighted to welcome UManitoba as a full member of PIMS. The mathematics department there is in the process of renewal and we are very excited by the new possibilities, in terms of research networks, education and innovation that come with UManitoba’s membership.

In 2015 PIMS launched two new CRGs: Explicit Methods for Abelian Varieties and Applied Partial Differential Equations: Modeling, Analysis, and Computation. (Please read more about these on pages 4 and 5.) We have an excellent pipeline of future CRGs, which exhibit the richness and diversity of our mathematical and scientific base.