News & Updates

Vancity has awarded PIMS a $6000 Community Project Grant to establish peer mentoring programs in Vancouver East Side Schools. Vancity’s grant program is investing for positive change in the community...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is now accepting nominations for the 2013 PIMS Education Prize. The winner receives $1000.The prize will be awarded to a member of the PIMS...

“Hugh Clough Morris was admired and respected by all who knew him. [He] was a life-long friend of the sciences in Canada. In addition to his memberships in the Geological Association of Canada (GAC)...

Mathematics of Planet EarthMEDIA RELEASE December 7, 2012 The Mathematics Community Unites to Focus on Global IssuesFrom modelling to prediction, better math will help the world advance MONTREAL...

Melania Alvarez, PIMS BC Education Coordinator, is featured in UBC's monthly newspaper, UBC Reports.Click here for the story! Don Erhardt Photograph

Professor Bruce Reed has been awarded the 2013 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize. The Prize recognizes exceptional achievement in the area of mathematical sciences and is considered one of Canada’s top honours in...

On November 28, 2012, Nassif Ghoussoub, the founding director of PIMS, will receive the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal at a ceremony in Ottawa.Ghoussoub served as PIMS’ director from 1996 to...

The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of...

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences are pleased to announce the 2013 competition for the CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in...

PIMS BC Education Coordinator, Melania Alvarez comments to the Georgia Straight on the math education crisis in BC: http://www.straight.com/article-823001/vancouver/spotlight-education-math-crisis...

The PIMS invites nominations of outstanding young researchers in the mathematical sciences for Postdoctoral Fellowships for the year 2013-2014. Candidates must be nominated by at least one scientist...

Proofs in Prime Ben Green has always been drawn to math. Recalling his involvement in mathematical Olympiad competitions in high school, he says, “I think that’s when a lot of people realize they are...