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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 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.

Upcoming Events

Event Agenda Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 09:25 – 09:30 Opening Remarks 09:30 – 10:30 Title TBA Benjamin Jourdain, CERMICS, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:35 Title TBA Yao Xie, Georgia Institute of...

Let A ∈ M_n be nonnegative, irreducible and E_ii = e_ie_i^T, where e_i is the ith standard basis vector. For a fixed t_0 > 0, an index p ∈ [n] := {1, 2, \ldots, n} is called a winner for the value t_0 if the spectral radius satisfies \rho( A + t_0 E...

In this talk, we present two algorithms associated with Tucker tensor format. The first is to obtain the Tucker tensor based on a new cross approximation we developed, called Cross^2-DEIM. This method samples a few fibers (proportionate to the multi...

In this talk, I will describe three projects designed to support students’ development as mathematical thinkers, with a focus on their engagement with mathematics. First, I will discuss the co-creation of ‘Student Perspective’ course materials for...

In this talk I'll give an overview of the mathematical side of the last eight years of my career as a software engineer at Google. This splits into two parts: writing software to automate the planning and management of Google's data centers as part...

Not all quadratic equations admit solutions over the real numbers: You need to adjoin a square root of -1. Quite remarkably, once you do this, then *every* polynomial has a solution. I will explain a sense in which the category Vec_C also does not...

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Important Dates

December 1, 2025

PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Due

January 31, 2026

2026 PIMS Call for Educational Proposals

PIMS Acknowledges

Collaborative Research Groups (CRG)

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Scientific Events

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Latest News & Updates

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 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...

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