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

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UBC Math-Bio Seminar: Yu-Chen Cheng
October 21, 2026
University of British Columbia
Understanding how cells change over time is fundamental to studying development, differentiation, and regeneration. Recent advances in single-cell genomics provide detailed measurements of cellular states, but these measurements are typically limited...
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UBC Number Theory Seminar: Mike Bennett
October 21, 2026
University of British Columbia
Perfect codes in the Hamming metric over prime power alphabets were completely classified in the 1970s. For more general alphabets, analogous classifications were obtained for such codes correcting at least three errors. The case of 2-error...
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URegina Topology and Geometry Seminar: Thomas Stanley
October 22, 2026
University of Regina
In this talk I will define a category internal to complex manifolds which I call holomorphic Lie categories. Given a holomorphic Lie category, there is a category of complex sheaves associated to it which can be used to construct various algebras. I...
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UW Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Alex Scheffelin
October 22, 2026
University of Washington
Formal schemes were introduced by Grothendieck to geometrize the idea of taking the completion of a ring which corresponds to taking “formal” analytic / power series functions around a closed subset. They find a lot of use in deformation theory in...
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UVic Discrete Math Seminar: Reza Naserasr
October 22, 2026
University of Victoria
Abstract: The cycle double cover conjecture asserts that every bridgeless graph admits a collection of cycles in which each edge occurs exactly twice. In this talk we present the conjecture’s historical roots and proof developed with OpenAI. We begin...
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Between 1997-2025 we have supported over 450 postdoctoral positions

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Research Catalysts Program
July 30, 2026
Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invites applications to its Research Catalyst program, a targeted funding opportunity designed to support the formation and maintenance of...
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