Upcoming Events

The reconfiguration of one discrete structure into another one, through a sequence small local modifications, is a wide research area. Famous topics of study range from games like the Rubik's cube or the 15-puzzle via robot motion planning to...

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Let C be a class of algebraic structures. For example, C could be a class of quadratic forms, field extensions or algebraic curves of a given genus. To measure the complexity of C, mathematicians ask a natural question: how many algebraically...

Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Text embeddings have revolutionized the use of text as data leading to vastly improved document clustering and retrieval and recommender systems by finding lower dimensional structure in the text. Furthermore, these...

The 2-day meeting will have 4 plenary lectures, plus 3-4 research-focused sessions per day. It is planned to have one session on challenges faced by women and underrepresented groups in mathematics; a session on mathematical education, outreach and...

PIMS is proud to support Science Rendezvous at UBC, a free community event celebrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Science Rendezvous is Canada’s national celebration of STEM, bringing together tens of thousands of people...

The annual Changing the Culture Conference, organized and sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, brings together mathematicians, mathematics educators and school teachers from all levels to work together towards narrowing...

Special Guest Lecture Judith Sayers, indigenous leader, Chancellor of Vancouver Island University, President of Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council Conference Sessions Stochastic modeling of atmosphere, and applications to energy and environment-Part 1...