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PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

PIMS is seeking nominations for engaging, high-quality speakers for the PIMS Network Wide Colloquium Series resonate with audiences across our 10 member universities (applications due June 15th)

PIMS Network Wide Courses

The PIMS Network Wide Courses programs helps share graduate level courses throughout the PIMS network. Registration for fall courses is now open. Application deadlines vary but begin in July.

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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An F-decomposition of a graph G is a set of subgraphs of G, each isomorphic to F, whose edge sets partition the edge set of G. I will speak about a result showing that, for each odd k ≥ 5, any graph G of sufficiently large order n with minimum degree...

Isogenies between elliptic curves have attracted a lot of attention, and over finite fields the structures that they generate are fascinating. For supersingular primes, isogeny graphs are very connected. For ordinary primes, isogeny graphs have a lot...

Secure online communications and financial transactions depend on public key cryptography—but the methods we use today are susceptible to attack by quantum computers. When that will happen is uncertain, though estimates range from 5 to 25 years. This...

In this talk, we start by recalling the well-known problem of multivariate approximation by polynomials of total degree, concerning finding good points for interpolation. This allowed the discovery of the Padua Points, the first set of unisolvent and...

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In this talk we see how representation theory can be used in numerical methods for partial differential equations (PDEs) and how numerics can give more efficient methods for computational problems in representation theory. In particular, we will see...

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September 30, 2025

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October 1, 2025

2026 PIMS Call for Scientific Proposals

December 1, 2025

PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications Due

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Latest News & Updates

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.

The PIMS Network Wide Courses program for the 2025/2026 academic year begins this fall with the following six courses Optimal Transport: Theory and Applications - Soumik Pal (UW), Young-Heon Kim (UBC)...

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