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Math Summer School for Elementary School Teachers

Elementary school teachers - join PIMS, UBC, and SFU for a 4-week hands-on program to strengthen your math knowledge, explore real-world applications, and enhance your teaching strategies.

PIMS Postdoctoral Summit

PIMS postdoctoral research fellows are invited to the 2025 PIMS Postdoctoral Summit at the University of Calgary on April 28th. Connect with peers, share research experiences, and explore career mentorship opportunities.

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.

PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

Call for Nominations: 2025/2026 Network-Wide Colloquium Series PIMS is seeking nominations for engaging, high-quality speakers to deliver a colloquium that will resonate with audiences across our 10 member universities.

PIMS Network Wide Courses

The PIMS Network Wide Courses programs helps share graduate level courses throughout the PIMS network. Applications for new courses are now being accepted. The deadline for applications is May 1st.

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

What is the SRP? The UBC Mathematics Summer Reading Program (SRP) connects small groups of first-year and second-year undergraduates with a graduate student or postdoctoral mentor for to learn some advanced mathematics beyond the undergraduate...

Registation Please be sure to register to receive the latest updates and important event information, including the Zoom link for the event. Registation Link: https://forms.gle/eazpg6coB7NDPwUa8 Schedule of Activities Welcome and opening remarks 13...

Event Organizers Gordon Slade University of British Columbia Omer Angel University of British Columbia Louigi Addario-Berry McGill University Mathav Murugan University of British Columbia Course Descriptions Main course: Tom Hutchcroft Title...

Overview Commutative algebra, the study of commutative rings and their modules, is a central field in mathematics. Commutative algebra provides the algebraic language used within algebraic geometry, and via the Stanley-Reisner correspondence...

LG&TBQ2: Geometry, Topology, and Dynamics is a sequel to the conference LG&TBQ organized in 2019 at the University of Michigan. In addition to the plenary lectures, we will have contributed talks in three parallel sessions. There will also be a...

About the Conference: The dynamic interplay between functional analysis and operator theory has given rise to numerous new sub-fields of analysis, collectively forming an emerging area we like to call "operator analysis on function spaces". While...

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Important Dates

May 24, 2025

PIMS Co-Director, Careers - Application Deadline

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Collaborative Research Groups (CRG)

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PIMS Postdocs

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Scientific Events

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Latest News & Updates

PIMS is happy to announce a call for nominations for the PIMS Network-Wide Colloquium Series for the 2025-2026 academic year. High-quality colloquia by distinguished speakers will be given on a...

Applications are invited for the position of Co-Director, Careers at the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) for a term of up to five years. The start date is negotiable, but must...

Darja Barr, a senior mathematics instructor at the University of Manitoba, has been awarded the 2025 PIMS Education Prize for her outstanding contributions to math education. The PIMS Education Prize...

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Math Summer School for Elementary School Teachers

PIMS Postdoctoral Summit

Emergent Research Seminar

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