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Call for new courses
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.
Event
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.
Event
Emergent Research Seminar
Discover cutting-edge research by PIMS Postdoctoral Fellows—sign up now to attend our Emergent Research seminars.
Opportunity
PIMS/BIRS Team Up! Pathways to Inclusive Research
PIMS offers collaborative opportunities for those who have faced barriers such as family obligations, isolation or limited funding. Apply today!
Funding Available
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.
Event
PIMS Network Wide Colloquium
Each month, PIMS hosts distinguished speakers for online talks open to the entire PIMS network. Sign up to attend today!
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.
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...
The annual Changing the Culture Conference, organized and sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, brings together mathematicians, mathematics educators and school teachers from all levels to work together towards narrowing...
Invited Minisymposia: IM1: Descriptive combinatorics ( Anton Bernshteyn, UCLA and Felix Weilacher, UC Berkeley) IM2: Pursuit-evasion games on graphs ( Anthony Bonato, Toronto Metropolitan University) IM3: How Many? The Art and Craft of Counting (...
This workshop is hosted by Simon Fraser University. It is supported by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the NSERC-EU project FoQaCiA. The goal of this meeting is to connect mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists...
The Niven Lecture is an annual lecture given to graduating math students, their family members and the general public at UBC. Between 1905 and 1910 the idea of the random walk, now a major topic in applied math, was invented simultaneously and...
Registation Please be sure to register to receive the latest updates and important event information. Registation Link: https://forms.gle/eazpg6coB7NDPwUa8 Schedule of Activities Welcome and opening remarks 13:00 - 13:10 Overview of M2PI 2025...
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...