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.
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Maths, Oceans & International Collaboration
Spotlight on the latest Maths & Oceans article from Paul Vigneaux, on residence at PIMS from France.
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Stay connected to mathematical research, programs, and events across Canada and the international PIMS network.
Event
Emergent Research Seminar
Discover cutting-edge research by PIMS Postdoctoral Fellows—sign up now to attend our Emergent Research seminars.
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.
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
Call for Nominations
PIMS Network Wide Colloquium
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.
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.
In this talk, I offer a brief account of my background in mathematics and academic research, and the confluence of factors that eventually led me to pursue a career in industry. I'll reflect on how my understanding of what it means to "solve a...
We present the results of a combined experimental and theoretical study of the spreading of viscous droplets over rigid substrates. First, we experimentally investigate the wetting of a roughened glass surface by a viscous droplet of silicone oil...
I will discuss a microlocal analysis approach to spectral theory on asymptotically Minkowski spaces both for scalar wave operators and also for Dirac type operators. This in turn gives rise to complex powers of the operators, allowing for the...
Stable matching mechanisms are ubiquitous in theory and in practice, with centralized mechanisms used to match students to schools or medical residents to hospitals. It is known that imbalance in the number of agents on either side of a random...
Let $A$ be an abelian surface. We investigate curves in a linear system on the dual abelian surface $\hat{A}$. There is an isomorphism of moduli spaces due to Yoshioka between the space $K_3(A)$ parametrizing 0-dimensional length-4 subschemes on $A$...
Back in 1848, in a German chess magazine, Max Bezzel asked how many ways there are to place 8 queens on a chessboard so that no two queens can attack one another. This question caught the attention of many, including Gauss, and was subsequently...
A new national report from the Vancouver Sun highlights declining math performance among Canadian students and growing innumeracy, and educators like Melania Alvarez (PIMS Education Coordinator)...
In February 2026, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) hosted the Canada–France–Chile Ocean Research Connections Workshop, an international event designed to strengthen research...
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Raymond Spiteri as its new Co-Director, Careers. Professor Spiteri completed his graduate...