News & Updates

Math Circles Returns! With the start of a new school year, PIMS and UBC are excited to be bringing back the Math Circles Workshops for elementary school students. We invite students from grades 4-7 to...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invites nominations of outstanding young researchers in the mathematical sciences for Postdoctoral Fellowships for the year 2018-2019...

PIMS is currently welcoming applications for support of Conferences, Workshops, Summer Schools, Distinguished Visitors, Focus Periods, Collaborative Research Groups and related activities in the...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) are calling for applications from French researchers to spend the 2018-19...

July 31st, 2017 will mark the very first time in PIMS’ 20 year history that we had three visiting Fields Medalists in three consecutive months. Steven Smale, winner of the Fields Medal in 1966, will...

The proliferation of mobile devices, social networks and sensor networks, the massive data streams they generate, and increasing computational power generate research challenges and provoke widespread...

Math Mania Reaches First Nations Communities in Manitoba Over the course of two weeks at the end of May and into June, PIMS Education Coordinator, Darja Barr expanded Math Mania, one of our...

CAIMS and PIMS are pleased to announce Ben Adcock of Simon Fraser University, and Hau-Tieng Wu of the University of Toronto as the co-winners of the 2017 Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics...

PIMS is happy to announce that Yaniv Plan has been named the winner of the 2016 UBC Mathematics and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Faculty Award. This award was created by two...

PIMS is pleased to announce that the 2017 Graduate Math Modelling in Industry Workshop (GMMIW) at the University of Manitoba, and the 2017 Industry Problem Solving Workshop (IPSW) being held at the...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) announces that Anna Stokke has been selected as the winner of the 2017 PIMS Education Prize. Dr. Stokke is a professor of mathematics in the...

PIMS is sponsoring the 2017 ProtoChallenge on the April 1 weekend at the University of Calgary, hosted by Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) at Calgary. ProtoChallenge is a 24 hour event where...