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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-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.

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Join us as we survey five years of progress on the distribution of mass in high-dimensional convex bodies and probability distributions. This talk explores how convexity assumptions provide a powerful alternative source of regularity in high...

Equivariant operads provide a powerful framework for encoding homotopic algebraic structures hidden in the non-equivariant setting, specifically those incorporating norm and transfer maps. These structures are organized by combinatorial objects...

Wave turbulence theory is a rich and expansive field, aiming to provide a framework for understanding how waves interact across different settings. Wave interactions occur over a wide range of scales and media—spanning from gravitational waves in the...

Abstract: The geometric Tevelev degrees of projective space enumerate general, pointed curves with fixed complex structure interpolating through the maximal number of points in $\mathbb{P}^r$. The study of the corresponding virtual invariants goes...

Abstract: In 2016 we wrote a paper introducing the phrase ``Polyak-Lojasiewicz (PL) condition'' for an old idea, not being sure how people would react to the paper. The paper ultimately had a larger impact than we expected, and we are surprised and...

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Important Dates

October 9, 2026

PIMS First Year Interest Groups - Participants Call

October 15, 2026

CNRS Visitor Applications Due

October 30, 2026

PIMS Globalink Research Internship India: Call for Projects

October 31, 2026

PIMS-UBC Early Career Award: Nomination deadline

November 1, 2026

CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Nominations

December 1, 2026

PIMS Postdoctoral Competition

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Collaborative Research Groups (CRG)

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Latest 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...

Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invites applications to its Research Catalyst program, a targeted funding opportunity designed to support the formation and maintenance of...

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PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

PIMS Thematic Year on Mathematics and Articial Intelligence

PIMS Network Wide Courses

Emergent Research Seminar

PIMS-Supported Research Leads to Major Quantum Computing Initiative

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