News & Updates

Charles Doran is the new PIMS site director for the University of Alberta, replacing Gerald Cliff who served in this capacity for the past five years. Professor Doran began his career with a Ph.D...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is pleased to announce that on June 19, 2009 its Board of Directors approved the appointment of George M. Homsy as Deputy Director of PIMS for a...

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced the 2009 election of new fellows. The new fellows include Gunther Uhlmann, who is the PIMS Site Director at the University of Washington. This is...

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) launched its first major international partnership this month with a new agreement with the The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is delighted to inform the mathematical community that the winner of the 2009 PIMS Education Prize is Gerda de Vries from the University of...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is now accepting nominations for the 2009 PIMS Education Prize. The prize is $1,000. The prize will be awarded to a member of the PIMS community who...

On December 16-18, Dominique Sotteau, Director of International Affairs for INRIA (l'Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique) -the French government's agency for research in...

The Directors of the three Institutes, CRM, Fields and PIMS are pleased to announce that Martin Barlow from UBC is the recipient of the 2009 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize. Martin Barlow is a leading figure in...

PIMS will host a special lecture by Dr. Jack Kalbfleisch from the Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, on Thursday November 13, 3:30pm, WMAX 110. Please see the details at http://www...

The MacArthur Foundation recently announced 25 new MacArthur Fellows for 2008, including Alexei Kitaev, who was a PIMS Distinguished Chair at UBC in October 2006, as part of the Collaborative Research...

At the invitation of Dohan Kim, President of the Korean Mathematical Society (KMS), a delegation of Canadian mathematicians sponsored by the Canadian Mathematical Society and PIMS attended the recent...

The PIMS Postdoc Day will take place on Saturday, October 25th. More information can be found at http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/general-event/pims-postdoc-day