News & Updates

Applications are invited for the position of DIRECTOR of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) for a term of up to five years, beginning on July 1, 2021. This appointment is...

PIMS is sponsoring a network-wide colloquium to take place Winter/Spring 2021. High quality colloquia by distinguished speakers will be given on a monthly basis (delivered virtually) for an audience...

The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), the Fields Institute, and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invite nominations for the joint CRM-Fields-PIMS prize, awarded in...

Effective September 1, Professor Weiran Sun will join PIMS as a site director. Professor Weiran Sun is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University. Broadly...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is looking for participants in a pilot program to promote the development and offering of graduate courses available to students across the...

PIMS Supported Seminars There is a change in procedure for seminar funding in the 2020-2021 funding cycle. Applications for PIMS supported seminars for the 2020 - 2021 academic year should be...

The Scientific Review Panel is now accepting submissions for funding proposals. The deadline to submit a proposal is October 15, 2020. Click here for more details.

It has been an honour to serve as Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS). After some consideration, I have chosen to not seek a renewal of my term. A process to select...

This July, PIMS will welcome two new site directors, Professor Thomas Hillen at the University of Alberta and Professor Allen Herman at the University of Regina. Thomas Hillen is a faculty member at...

PIMS is pleased to announce the winner of the 2020 Education Prize is Dr. Fok-Shuen Leung! Dr. Leung is a tenured Senior Instructor in the Department of Mathematics at UBC Vancouver and the recipient...

The federal government has announced a significant funding commitment to help partners and research teams spanning across universities to help combat COVID-19. This collaborative team includes the...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to award two 2020 Collaborative Research Group Awards to Novel Techniques in Low Dimension: Floer Homology, representation theory...