News & Updates

Congratulations to UBC mathematician and longtime member of the PIMS community Joshua Zahl, who, together with Pablo Shmerkin, Tuomas Orponen and Hong Wang, has received a 2026 Clay Research Award for...

Congratulations to UBC mathematician Pablo Shmerkin, who, together with Joshua Zahl, Tuomas Orponen and Hong Wang, has received a 2026 Clay Research Award for work resolving two major problems in...

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...

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Melania Alvarez, BC Education Coordinator at PIMS, has been awarded the prestigious IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Pre-University Education in...

The 2025 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award is presented to Prof. Courtney Paquette in recognition of her fundamental contribution to the analysis of stochastic optimization algorithms and their...

Darja Barr, a senior mathematics instructor at the University of Manitoba, has been awarded the 2025 PIMS Education Prize for her outstanding contributions to math education. The PIMS Education Prize...

PIMS is thrilled to announce the Dr. Christos Thrampoulidis, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UBC, has been awarded the 2024 PIMS/UBC Mathematical...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), along with the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) and the Fields Institute, is proud to announce that Dr. Leah Edelstein-Keshet...

PIMS is glad to announce that Sean Graves is the winner of the 2022 Education Prize. Graves is a faculty lecturer in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and the Coordinator for the...

Dr. Melania Alvarez is the BC Education Coordinator at PIMS and holds the title of Outreach Coordinator for the Department of Mathematics at UBC. The highlight of Melania's work is her outreach to...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce that Dr. Natalia Nolde, is the recipient of the 2021 UBC - PIMS Mathematical Sciences Young Faculty Award. Dr. Nolde...