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PIMS Education Prize

Do you know someone who has made a significant impact on education in the mathematical sciences? Nominations are now open for the 2025 PIMS Education Prize! This award celebrates outstanding contributions to education within the PIMS community.

PIMS Network Wide Courses

The PIMS Network Wide Courses programs helps share graduate level courses throughout the PIMS network. Applications for new courses are now being accepted. The deadline for applications is May 1st.

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

This alternative math education event will present fun activities to explore math and computer science concepts to children (and adults!) using games and art! Lots of hands-on activities including: Sorting network An impossible balancing act...

Wiles’ famous proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem pioneered the so-called modular method, in which modularity of elliptic curves is used to show that all integer solutions of Fermat’s equation are trivial. In this talk, we briefly sketch a variant of the...

The peaceable queens problem asks to determine the maximum number $a(n)$ such that there is a placement of $a(n)$ white queens and $a(n)$ black queens on an $n \times n$ chessboard so that no queen can capture any queen of the opposite color. We...

We will talk about Drinfeld modules, and how they compare to elliptic curves for algorithms and computations. Drinfeld modules can be seen as function field analogues of elliptic curves. They were introduced in the 1970's by Vladimir Drinfeld, to...

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Twenty-first century mathematics has seen the rise of the proof assistant, and mathematical practice has changed significantly with the rise of these new tools. One consequence of this change, for the philosopher of mathematics, is the wider adoption...

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Important Dates

March 14, 2025

PIMS Education Prize Nomination Deadline

April 15, 2025

PIMS-BIRS TeamUp! Application Deadline

May 1, 2025

PIMS Network Wide Courses - New Courses Deadline

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

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...

Applications are invited for the position of Co-Director Programs of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) for a term of up to five years, beginning on (preferably) September 1...

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...

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