PIMS is seeking nominations for engaging, high-quality speakers for the PIMS Network Wide Colloquium Series resonate with audiences across our 10 member universities (applications due June 15th)
Resource
PIMS Connection
Our monthly PIMS Connection newsletter out now. Find out what’s happening around the PIMS network
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 fall courses is now open. Application deadlines vary but begin in July.
Funding available
Now Accepting Scientific Proposals
PIMS is excited to announce a call for proposals for mathematical science activities for 2026 (and beyond). Apply by Oct 1, 2025
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.
Event
Emergent Research Seminar
Discover cutting-edge research by PIMS Postdoctoral Fellows—sign up now to attend our Emergent Research seminars.
Positions available
PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition
PIMS invites nominations for outstanding young researchers in the mathematical sciences for postdoctoral fellowships. Submit your nomination by December 1, 2025.
Summer School
Math Summer School for Elementary School Teachers
Elementary school teachers - join PIMS, UBC, and SFU for a 4-week hands-on program to strengthen your math knowledge, explore real-world applications, and enhance your teaching strategies.
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!
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.
What is the SRP? The UBC Mathematics Summer Reading Program (SRP) connects small groups of first-year and second-year undergraduates with a graduate student or postdoctoral mentor for to learn some advanced mathematics beyond the undergraduate...
Teachers are expected to attend from 9:00 to 12:30 every weekday and to work on their own at home for another half an hour each day. They will be paid a $1,200 stipend upon completion of the program. Registration is now open, please see the...
Main event site: Discrete, Convex, and Combinatorial Geometry Fest – July 14-18, 2025, Calgary Registration: Standard Registration Fee: \$290 CAD per person. Early Bird Rate: \$200 CAD if registered and paid by May 15th, 11:59 PM PST. Fee Exemptions...
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...
This workshop aims to build a community of mathematicians who self-identify as gender minorities in mathematics and who work in optimization at the intersection of combinatorics, algebra, and geometry. To achieve this goal, the workshop focuses both...
Melania Alvarez, PIMS Education Coordinator, joined Global News Morning BC to talk about making math fun and how everyday summer activities can help kids keep their math skills sharp.
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)...
PIMS is happy to announce a call for nominations for the PIMS Network-Wide Colloquium Series for the 2025-2026 academic year. High-quality colloquia by distinguished speakers will be given on a...