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PIMS Network Wide Courses

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

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-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

I will tell the story of a mathematical problem which can be understood and tested by a child, yet which has resisted solution for over a century, in spite of the efforts of many prominent mathematicians. I will describe in parallel the development...

One of my favorite quotations in mathematics is due to Titchmarsh, who remarked: “The finer theory of the partial sums of the Möbius function is extremely obscure, and the results are not nearly so precise as the corresponding ones in the prime...

We consider a magnetized plasma (in the case of a tokamak) where the density of ions $ n_0$ as well as the imposed vertical magnetic field $B_0$ dépend on the horizontal variable $x$. The linearized system of Euler-Maxwell équations (system of 10...

PLEASE NOTE: The room number for this session is not yet known, but it will take place at UBC's Point Grey campus. The location in the sidebar will be updated as soon as it is known. Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop...

In this talk, we discuss pair state transfer on graphs with respect to the adjacency matrix. We show that the evolution of certain pair states in a quantum network with isomorphic branches depends solely on the local structure, and it remains...

ELMACON is an annual math contest for students in grades 5, 6, and 7. Students tackle hard mathematical questions in an competitive environment to determine who will take home trophies and prizes. The contest is designed to be challenging but fun. It...

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Important Dates

April 15, 2026

PIMS BIRS Team Up! Applications deadline

April 17, 2026

M2PI Grad-student/postdoc application deadline

May 1, 2026

PIMS Network Wide Courses: Call for new courses for 2026-2027

May 15, 2026

PIMS Network Wide Colloquium 2026/27 Call for Nominations

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 1997-2025 we have supported over 450 postdoctoral positions

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Syzygy Users

Syzygy is a JupyterHub service created by PIMS

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Scientific Events

From 1996-2025 PIMS has supported over 6500 scientific events

Latest News & Updates

We were pleased to host senior leadership from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). A key highlight was the signing of a Letter of Intent between CNRS and the University of British...

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mayada Shahada has been awarded with the prestigious PIMS Education Prize, celebrating her outstanding contributions to advancing public awareness and appreciation...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invites nominations for its 2026–2027 Network-Wide Colloquium Series. This flagship lecture series showcases leading voices in contemporary...

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Emergent Research Seminar

PIMS/BIRS Team Up! Pathways to Inclusive Research

PIMS Connection

PIMS-Supported Research Leads to Major Quantum Computing Initiative

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