News & Updates

Started in 1999, ELMACON was designed to give elementary school students in grades five through seven the chance to experience mathematics as an exciting and challenging competition. Organized by PIMS...

CAIMS and PIMS are pleased to announce Alexander Bihlo of Memorial University as the winner of the 2018 Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics. Alexander Bihlo is a meteorologist and numerical...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and the Departments of Mathematics at UBC, and SFU will be offering a 4-week Math Summer School for Elementary School Teachers this summer. The...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) announces that Julia Pevtsova has been selected as the winner of the 2018 PIMS Education Prize. Dr. Pevtsova is a professor of mathematics in...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce Dr. Benedict Williams as the recipient of the 2017 UBC Mathematics & Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences...

We are building Canada's digital generation with Callysto, a pilot project by Cybera and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and funded by Canada's CanCode Grant. We have officially...

ELMACON is looking for volunteers for our 20th anniversary competition taking place on Saturday, April 28, 2018. For 20 years, ELMACON has given students from grades 5 to 7 a chance to experience...

PIMS Mathematical Education Circles is a monthly gathering open to all math educators interested in enhancing their teaching practices by sharing opinions and experiences with their peers. Each...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is now accepting nominations for the 2018 PIMS Education Prize. The winner receives $1000. The prize will be awarded to a member of the PIMS...

Math Circles Returns! PIMS and UBC are excited to be bringing back the Math Circles Workshops for elementary school students to Monday evenings in 2018. We invite students from grades 4-7 to challenge...

The winner of the 2018 CRM - Fields - PIMS Prize is Professor Jeremy Quastel of the University of Toronto. Jeremy Quastel is widely recognized as one of the top probabilists in the world, having made...

We are proud to announce that PIMS Interim Deputy Director, Brian Marcus was named to the 2018 class of American Math Society fellows. He was recognized for his contributions to dynamical systems...