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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.

CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize

The CRM–Fields–PIMS institutes proudly announce Robert McCann as the 2026 winner, recognized for his exceptional research and landmark contributions to optimal transport theory

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

The game of Cops and Robbers is a two-player pursuit–evasion game played on a graph, in which a set of cops attempt to capture a single robber. The players occupy vertices of the graph and take turns moving along edges; capture occurs when a cop and...

In this talk, I will talk about use of automata theory in answering problems in number theory. In 1844, Catalan conjectured that the set consisting of natural numbers of the form $2^n+1$, $n \ge 0$ and the set consisting of powers of $3$ has finite...

The energy image density property arises in two seemingly distinct lines of research. It first appeared in Malliavin’s proof of Hörmander’s hypoellipticity theorem and has since played a central role in the study of regularity properties of...

I will review how the comparison of Gaussian processes leads to results in convex geometry, and how extremal problems in convex geometry can be translated into a Gaussian framework. I will conclude by presenting new comparison inequalities for...

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We consider isogenies on Jacobians J of genus 3 curves with a kernel that is a maximal isotropic subgroup of the 2-torsion J[2] and confront a phenomenon that is new in genus 3: for genus 1 and 2 the codomain is generally again a Jacobian of a curve...

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Important Dates

January 31, 2026

2026 PIMS Call for Educational Proposals

March 14, 2026

PIMS Education prize nominations due

PIMS Acknowledges

Collaborative Research Groups (CRG)

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Scientific Events

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Latest News & Updates

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Raymond Spiteri as its new Co-Director, Careers. Professor Spiteri completed his graduate...

We are pleased to highlight the latest contribution to the Maths & Oceans series by Paul Vigneaux, published under the umbrella of CNRS Mathematics. The article, titled “ Maths & Oceans #2: Mascaret...

The 2026 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize has been awarded to Professor Robert McCann, a leading figure in the theory of optimal transport and one of Canada’s most influential mathematicians. A faculty member at...

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