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PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

PIMS 2025-2026 Network Wide Colloquium begins on Thursday September 25th with our first speaker, Fields Medalist Curtis McMullen. Four other speakers will round out this high profile network wide event.

PIMS Network Wide Courses

The PIMS Network Wide Courses programs helps share graduate level courses throughout the PIMS network. Registration for fall courses is now open. Application deadlines vary but begin in July.

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award helps provides funding for researchers attending a BIRS 5-day (or longer) program to maximize the impact of their travel by visiting a PIMS site for collaboration.

The PIMS mandate is to promote excellent research and applications of the mathematical sciences, to facilitate the training of highly qualified personnel, to create an equitable, diverse and inclusive community in the mathematical sciences, to enrich public awareness of and education in mathematics and to create partnerships with similar organizations around the world.

Upcoming Events

We built an age- and immunity-stratified COVID-19 model with setting-specific contacts (home, school, workplace, other) and calibrated it to Ontario’s pre-Omicron incidence and hospital admissions. Counterfactuals toggled vaccination and varied NPIs...

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The UBC Mathematics-Biology research group is delighted to host four distinguished speakers from South Africa as part of the University Staff Doctoral Program: Building Capacity in Applied Mathematics (USDP-BCAM). This international collaboration...

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In 1974, Briançon and Skoda answered a question of Mather, showing that for $I=(f_1,\dots,f_n)$ an ideal of the coordinate ring at a smooth point on a complex algebraic variety, there is a containment $\overline{I^{n+k-1}}\subseteq I^k$ for all $k...

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Important Dates

September 30, 2025

2026 Insmi-CNRS Postes Rouges Applications Due

October 1, 2025

2026 PIMS Call for Scientific Proposals

December 1, 2025

PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Due

PIMS Acknowledges

Collaborative Research Groups (CRG)

CRGs are one of PIMS flagship programs, building world class research networks.

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PIMS Postdocs

Between 1997-2024 we have supported over 400 postdoctoral positions

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Syzygy Users

Syzygy is a JupyterHub service created by PIMS

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Scientific Events

From 1996-2024 PIMS has supported over 4500 scientific events

Latest News & Updates

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Deanna Needell as its new Co-Director, Programs. Prof. Needell brings a wealth of experience...

On CTV Morning Live, Dr. Melania Alvarez of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences at UBC outlines methods to keep your math skills sharp!

Melania Alvarez, PIMS Education Coordinator, joined Global News Morning BC to talk about making math fun and how everyday summer activities can help kids keep their math skills sharp.

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PIMS/BIRS Team Up! Pathways to Inclusive Research

PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition

PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

PIMS Connection

Emergent Research Seminar

Now Accepting Scientific Proposals