Past Events
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
URegina-PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Zilin Jiang
March 27, 2026
Online
Equiangular lines are collections of lines in Euclidean space, all passing through the origin and forming the same angle with one another. Given a fixed angle, a fundamental question is: what is the maximum number of such lines? I will present a...
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Kantorovich Initiative: KI-Retreat in Spring
March 12–13, 2026
University of British Columbia
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...
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Accommodation for Canada-France-Chile Ocean Research Connections Workshop
February 10–11, 2026
University of British Columbia
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
URegina-PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Joy Morris
February 6, 2026
University of Regina
Although we often introduce group theory to students using groups of symmetries, we tend to move quickly away from these intuitive representations into the realm of axioms and deductions. There are plenty of good reasons for this, not least of which...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Hugh C. Morris Distinguished Lecture: Inwon Kim
January 16, 2026
University of British Columbia
We are extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Inwon Kim, Professor of Mathematics at UCLA, will deliver an upcoming lecture in the Hugh C. Morris Lecture Series. Dr. Kim is internationally recognized for her influential work in analysis and PDEs...
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Joint PIMS-ICMS Big Data Before Data Science Conference
December 9–12, 2025
University of British Columbia
Invited Speakers Amy Ackerberg-Hastings MAA Convergence Iris Clever University of Chicago Stephanie Dick Simon Fraser University Moon Duchin Cornell University David Dunning National Museum of American History Matthew Eddy Durham University Michael...
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47th Australasian Combinatorics Conference
December 1–5, 2025
Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
The Australasian Combinatorics Conference (ACC) is the annual conference of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia (CMSA). It covers all areas of combinatorics in mathematics and computer science. It began in 1972, and was previously...
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Optimal transport: stochastics, projections, and applications
November 5–7, 2025
Fields Institute
Event Agenda Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 09:25 – 09:30 Opening Remarks 09:30 – 10:30  Title TBA Benjamin Jourdain, CERMICS, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:35  Title TBA Yao Xie, Georgia Institute of...
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UBC Applied Mathematics Meeting
October 25, 2025
University of British Columbia
The UBC Applied Mathematics Meeting is a one day conference dedicated to the newly created SIAM Student Chapter at UBC, Vancouver, Canada. This event aims to bring together mathematicians, industry researchers, and students to exchange ideas, present...
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WCOM Fall 25: West Coast Optimization Meeting
October 18, 2025
University of British Columbia Okanagan
The West Coast Optimization Meeting will take place on October 18, 2025 on the Okanagan Campus of the University of British Columbia. The organizers (Aleksandr Aravkin Warren Hare, Tim Hoheisel, Yves Lucet, and Amy Wiebe) are pleased to invite all...