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PIMS Network Wide Courses

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.

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.

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.

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

Spatial Pattern Formation and the Evolution of Cooperative Behaviour

Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills at the Math Circle Workshops. This is an enrichment program for students organized by the faculty members of the Department of Mathematics at the...

Abstract: Functional data such as time series and images are ubiquitous in applications and are equipped with natural concatenation operations. For machine learning applications, it is often helpful to build structured representations of such data...

Abstract TBA

Please Note: This event has been rescheduled from Oct. 1st to Oct. 8th! Industrial mathematics is a field that spans a broad spectrum of activity ranging from applied R&D performed by mathematicians employed in industry, to purely academic research...

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Important Dates

October 31, 2025

PIMS/UBC Mathematical Sciences Early Career Award

November 1, 2025

CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Nominations Due

December 1, 2025

PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Due

January 31, 2026

2026 PIMS Call for Educational Proposals

PIMS Acknowledges

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

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Deanna Needell as its new Co-Director, Programs. Prof. Needell brings a wealth of experience...

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!

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.

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Emergent Research Seminar

PIMS Connection

PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition