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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.

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

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

The basement membrane (BM) is a nanoporous extracellular matrix that surrounds most tissues and blocks the passage of cells, primarily composed of covalently cross-linked collagen IV fibres and laminins. While BM breaching has traditionally been...

Thursday, March 12 9:30 am: Start 9:30 am - 10:30 am: Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia) Title: Skew-linear entropies, Kantorovich operators and their ergodic theory Abstract: Kantorovich operators are non-linear extensions of Markov...

Juvan, Malnič and Mohar [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 68 (1996), 7-22] proved that for every surface S and every integer k, there exists N(S,k) such that any set of simple closed curves on the surface S, where any two are non-homotopic and intersect at...

Lie group integrators are a class of numerical schemes for the solution of ordinary differential equations on manifolds. These methods avoid explicit representation of the solution in a coordinate chart by advancing the solution using a continuous...

We construct explicit examples of abelian surfaces whose 2-torsion Galois representations are not self-dual. Such surfaces are necessarily not principally polarized. We consider abelian surfaces with a polarization of type (1,2) instead. Our main...

The volume spectrum is an analogue of the Laplace spectrum, defined through the area functional together with homological or cohomological relations in the space of hypercycles. In this talk, I will introduce several versions of the volume spectrum...

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Important Dates

March 14, 2026

PIMS Education prize nominations due

March 15, 2026

M2PI Partner Organization Project Submission Deadline

April 15, 2026

PIMS BIRS Team Up! Applications deadline

April 17, 2026

M2PI Grad-student/postdoc application deadline

May 1, 2026

PIMS Network Wide Courses: Call for new courses for 2026-2027

PIMS Acknowledges

Collaborative Research Groups (CRG)

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PIMS Postdocs

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Scientific Events

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Latest News & Updates

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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...

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