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.
Call for new courses
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.
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.
Resource
PIMS Connection
Our monthly PIMS Connection newsletter out now. Find out what’s happening around the PIMS network
News Article
Maths, Oceans & International Collaboration
Spotlight on the latest Maths & Oceans article from Paul Vigneaux, on residence at PIMS from France.
Prize
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
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!
Event
Emergent Research Seminar
Discover cutting-edge research by PIMS Postdoctoral Fellows—sign up now to attend our Emergent Research seminars.
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.
This presentation will introduce a strategy to simplify certain undecidable problems. We will then demonstrate how quantum physics has been utilized to tackle potentially undecidable problems, specifically within the realm of low-dimensional topology...
We are extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Inwon Kim, Professor of Mathematics at UCLA, will deliver an upcoming lecture in the Hugh C. Morris Lecture Series. Dr. Kim is internationally recognized for her influential work in analysis and PDEs...
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...
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce Prof. Mathav Murugan as the recipient of the 2025 PIMS/UBC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Award. Prof. Murugan is...