Past Events

From May 25-June 12, 2026 the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) will be running our popular Math to Power Industry workshop (M2PI 2026). This hybrid workshop pairs industry problems with mathematical talent, aiming to benefit...

Program Download the full program [pdf] for abstracts and other details. Special Guest Lecture: First Nation Leadership in Clean Energy and Climate Action Speaker: Judith Sayers, indigenous leader, Chancellor of Vancouver Island University, President...

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 such as: Sorting network An impossible balancing act...

The annual Changing the Culture Conference, organized and sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, brings together mathematicians, mathematics educators and school teachers from all levels to work together towards narrowing...

An accepted truism in arithmetic geometry is that curves of genus at least 2 have more complicated arithmetic than curves of genus 0 or 1. One way this is made precise is by Faltings's Theorem: any curve of genus at least 2 has only finitely many...

PIMS is proud to support Science Rendezvous at UBC, a free community event celebrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Science Rendezvous is Canada’s national celebration of STEM, bringing together tens of thousands of people...

The 2-day meeting will have 4 plenary lectures, plus 3-4 research-focused sessions per day. It is planned to have one session on challenges faced by women and underrepresented groups in mathematics; a session on mathematical education, outreach and...

ELMACON is an annual math contest for students in grades 5, 6, and 7. Students tackle hard mathematical questions in an competitive environment to determine who will take home trophies and prizes. The contest is designed to be challenging but fun. It...

In this talk, we discuss pair state transfer on graphs with respect to the adjacency matrix. We show that the evolution of certain pair states in a quantum network with isomorphic branches depends solely on the local structure, and it remains...

PLEASE NOTE: The room number for this session is not yet known, but it will take place at UBC's Point Grey campus. The location in the sidebar will be updated as soon as it is known. Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop...