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PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

PIMS 2025-2026 Network Wide Colloquium begins on Thursday September 25th with our first speaker, Fields Medalist Curtis McMullen. Four other speakers will round out this high profile network wide event.

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.

Upcoming Events

This is an informal seminar about the modernization of math teaching in the AI era. Several aspects of the modernization will be discussed: the RUM principle (relevant, useful, and modern) of textbooks, modern computer technology, learning-by-doing...

Homotopy limits and colimits are a fundamental tool in homotopy theory, with applications to topology, geometry, and algebra. The event is aimed at graduate students, postdocs, and early-career researchers who want to learn more about this topic. The...

Geometric analysis is a broad area. It uses and develops tools from analysis, such as partial differential equations, calculus of variations and geometric measure theory, to solve problems in geometry and topology. A pivotal achievement is the...

Participants will be introduced to four foundational areas of mathematics by guest lecturers during the first week and then work on inquiry based projects with the support of the lecturers and graduate teaching assistants. One of the DREAMs Institute...

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Important Dates

May 30, 2026

Math Teachers Summer School Application Deadline

June 12, 2026

Séminaires de mathématiques supérieures (SMS) LOI Application Deadline

November 1, 2026

CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Nominations

PIMS Acknowledges

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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Syzygy Users

Syzygy is a JupyterHub service created by PIMS

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Scientific Events

From 1996-2025 PIMS has supported over 6500 scientific events

Latest News & Updates

Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to celebrate the successful completion of Math to Power Industry (M2PI) 2026, a three-week program that connects industry, government...

Origin Story In the mid-1990s, mathematician Nassif Ghoussoub saw an opportunity to transform the mathematical sciences in Western Canada. At the time, there were excellent researchers working at...

PIMS is excited to host the 2028 Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures (SMS) in Vancouver, and the SMS steering board is now accepting letters of intent from prospective organizing teams. The SMS is...

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PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

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Emergent Research Seminar

PIMS/BIRS Team Up! Pathways to Inclusive Research

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award

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