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

Scientific, Seminar
USaskatchewan-PIMS GAP Seminar: Yun Gao
March 27, 2026
University of Saskatchewan
The infinite dimensional Galilean conformal algebra is an infinite dimensional extension of the finite dimensional Galilean conformal algebra in ( d + 1 ) -dimensional space-time, which was introduced by Bagchi and Gopakumar in order to construct a...
Scientific, Colloquia
UBC Math Department Colloquium: Didier Lesesvre
March 27, 2026
University of British Columbia
In 1671, Bachet conjectured that every natural number can be written as sum of four squares. A century of efforts and ideas was needed for Lagrange to reach a proof, and almost another century for Jacobi to quantify precisely this result. Today...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
URegina-PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Zilin Jiang
March 27, 2026
Online
Equiangular lines are collections of lines in Euclidean space, all passing through the origin and forming the same angle with one another. Given a fixed angle, a fundamental question is: what is the maximum number of such lines? I will present a...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU MOCAD Seminar: Laura Weidensager
March 27, 2026
Simon Fraser University
In this talk, we focus on the problem of reconstructing a multivariate function from discrete d-dimensional samples. Beyond achieving accurate function recovery, we aim to enhance interpretability by identifying how individual variables and their...
Educational, Workshop
ELMACON 2026 - Preparation Session 3
March 28, 2026
University of British Columbia
ELMACON preparation sessions are free events which take place in the lead up to the ELMACON competition . At each session, an instructor students you through past ELMACON questions and teaches them techniques for tackling them. Subjects covered...
Scientific, Seminar
Joint Maud Menten /Math Bio Seminar: Leah Edelstein-Keshet
March 30, 2026
University of Victoria
The classic Lotka-Volterra model for species competition has traditionally been associated with ecological settings where living species compete for limited resources. Here I will discuss two recent examples from work in my group where similar ideas...
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We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

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PIMS hosts an International Research Lab of the CNRS

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We acknowledge the support from the Simons Foundation

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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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Scientific Events

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Latest News & Updates

Celebrating 30 Years of PIMS
March 13, 2026
On March 14—Pi Day—the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) begins celebrating 30 years of advancing the mathematical sciences. For three decades, PIMS has supported research...
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