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.
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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.
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CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize
The CRM–Fields–PIMS institutes proudly announce Robert McCann as the 2026 winner, recognized for his exceptional research and landmark contributions to optimal transport theory
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UBC Mathematics and the Institute of Applied Mathematics will host an all-day colloquium featuring a series of talks in mathematical biology, bringing together postdoctoral fellows from mathematics and zoology. Tentative Schedule: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM...
In this talk, I'll introduce the Simply Typed Lambda Calculus (STLC), describing how it connects constructive propositional logic and computation. I then discuss how Cartesian Closed Categories serve as models of the STLC, and how the categorical...
The study of the cohomology of line bundles on (partial) flag varieties is an important problem at the intersection of algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, and representation theory. Over fields of characteristic zero, this is well-understood...
The Briançon-Skoda theorem is a comparison relating the integral closure of powers of a finitely generated ideal with its ordinary powers. Originally proved using analytic methods for coordinate rings of smooth varieties over the complex numbers in...
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...
In this talk, I will present some recent advances for analyzing stochastic optimization methods without the bounded variance assumption. It is well-known that the bounded variance assumption is violated for even the most standard problems such as...
A new national report from the Vancouver Sun highlights declining math performance among Canadian students and growing innumeracy, and educators like Melania Alvarez (PIMS Education Coordinator)...
In February 2026, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) hosted the Canada–France–Chile Ocean Research Connections Workshop, an international event designed to strengthen research...
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Raymond Spiteri as its new Co-Director, Careers. Professor Spiteri completed his graduate...