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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-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.

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ABSTRACT: Iwasawa theory traditionally explores how arithmetic objects (like ideal class groups and Selmer groups) grow in infinite towers of number fields. Historically, this research has focused on the p-primary parts of these objects within...

In this talk, Vatsal will sketch some of the many answer proposed to the question in the title of the talk, starting with the most elementary attempts, and ending with some of the more sophisticated ones.

Abstract: This talk focuses on Richardson varieties in the complete flag variety, which are intersections of a Schubert variety with an opposite Schubert variety. Richardson varieties are indexed by intervals in the Bruhat order on the symmetric...

Abstract: We will complete the story from last time: the Chern character does not map the K-theoretic Thom class directly to the HZ-theoretic one. Figuring out the error term – the Todd class – will lead us to the Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch theorem...

Abstract: Tight closure was introduced by Hochster and Huneke in 1986 and has been a highly effective tool for solving problems in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. It is also closely connected with the study of singularities defined via...

The distribution of rational points has been an old problem in number theory. Some of the milestones include the Mordell-Weil theorem and the Faltings’ theorem, explicitly explaining the structure of rational points on abelian varieties and on curves...

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For 30 years, PIMS has invested not only in mathematical research, but also in the people who will carry it forward. Supporting emerging researchers has been central to the PIMS mission since its...

Congratulations to UBC mathematician and longtime member of the PIMS community Joshua Zahl, who, together with Pablo Shmerkin, Tuomas Orponen and Hong Wang, has received a 2026 Clay Research Award for...

Congratulations to UBC mathematician Pablo Shmerkin, who, together with Joshua Zahl, Tuomas Orponen and Hong Wang, has received a 2026 Clay Research Award for work resolving two major problems in...

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PIMS Network Wide Courses

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PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award

PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

PIMS Thematic Year on Mathematics and Articial Intelligence

Emergent Research Seminar

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