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

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URegina Topology and Geometry Seminar: Aditya Dwarkesh
March 23, 2026
University of Regina
A connection on a vector bundle is data which tells us how to lift a curve from the base space to the total space. In this talk, we introduce a generalization of them known as "formal connections," and explain how they offer us a way to model the...
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UAlberta Math Biology Seminar: Tianxu Wang
March 23, 2026
University of Alberta
Pollution is a pervasive environmental stressor that affects biological systems across multiple levels of organization, from cellular processes to individual behavior and population dynamics. While numerous empirical studies document these effects...
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UBC Algebra and Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Dustin Ross
March 23, 2026
University of British Columbia
If X is a smooth complete variety, then the alternating sums of dimensions of sheaf cohomology groups gives an additive map from the Grothendieck group of vector bundles on X to the integers. If X is not complete, then sheaf cohomology groups are...
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Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Connor Mooney
March 23, 2026
University of British Columbia
The special Lagrangian equation (SLE) is a fully nonlinear elliptic PDE that originates in the work of Harvey and Lawson on calibrated geometries. The question whether a viscosity solution to the SLE is smooth (or at least has minimal gradient graph)...
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UBC DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Nicolaos Kapouleas
March 24, 2026
University of British Columbia
In the first part of the talk (introduction) I will recall classical and semi-classical results and conjectures. In the second part I will review the current status of PDE gluing constructions of minimal surfaces. In the last (main) part of the talk...
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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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Syzygy Users

Syzygy is a JupyterHub service created by PIMS

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From 1996-2025 PIMS has supported over 6500 scientific events

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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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