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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PIMS Emergent Research Special Seminar: Mary Anne Moser
September 17, 2025
Online
We have all been treated to the excitement of a good science story. Think Discovery Channel or National Geographic. The stories are really engaging! Well, the very same tools and techniques that make great science stories can be used to strengthen...
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UBC Math Bio Seminar: Alex Beams
September 17, 2025
University of British Columbia
Phylogenetic trees are mathematical objects that encode information about ancestry relationships and are often used in the interpretation of genomic data. They have proved especially useful for advancing our understanding of pathogen populations that...
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UBC Probability Seminar: Josh Frisch
September 17, 2025
University of British Columbia
Bounded harmonic functions on groups (and their alter ego, the Poisson boundary)—bounded functions such that f(x) is the average of f(xa), where a is chosen from some probability measure—are objects of key importance in random walks, dynamics, and...
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UVictoria Discrete Math Seminar: Peter Dukes
September 18, 2025
University of Victoria
An F-decomposition of a graph G is a set of subgraphs of G, each isomorphic to F, whose edge sets partition the edge set of G. I will speak about a result showing that, for each odd k ≥ 5, any graph G of sufficiently large order n with minimum degree...
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PIMS Acknowledges

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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 1997-2024 we have supported over 400 postdoctoral positions

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Syzygy Users

Syzygy is a JupyterHub service created by PIMS

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Scientific Events

From 1996-2024 PIMS has supported over 4500 scientific events

Latest News & Updates

Keeping Math Skills Sharp
July 31, 2025
On CTV Morning Live, Dr. Melania Alvarez of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences at UBC outlines methods to keep your math skills sharp!
PIMS Network Wide Courses 2025/2026
July 3, 2025
The PIMS Network Wide Courses program for the 2025/2026 academic year begins this fall with the following six courses Optimal Transport: Theory and Applications - Soumik Pal (UW), Young-Heon Kim (UBC)...
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