University of Victoria | PIMS - Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

The University of Victoria PIMS site office is located in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Social Sciences and Mathematics building) at the University of Victoria (Map).

See http://www.pims.math.ca/educational/math-mania for more information about Mathmania!

Math Mania is a popular alternative math education event sponsored by PIMS' UBC and University of Victoria sites, which has run in elementary schools on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland since 1997. Held several times a year, Math Mania...

Registration for this conference is free and optional, but would help with organizing. Online registration is available here.

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This Alternative Math Education event will present fun methods of teaching math and computer science concepts to children (and adults!) using games and art. Lots of hands-on activities! Including:A Sorting Network An Impossible Balancing Act Bubbles...

Students from Elementary, Middle and Secondary schools will participate. Judges include current and retired UVic Faculty and graduate students. PIMS has long been a sponsor of FAME. About eighty students (Gr. 3-12) will exhibit.

On Monday, May 2, 2016, a team from PIMS(UVic, UBC and U. of Manitoba) will present Math Mania at Captain Meares Elementary Secondary School in Tahsis, a remote community on Vancouver Island. This will be the second visit for Math Mania. The first...

On Tuesday, May 3, 2016, a team from PIMS (UVic, UBC and UManitoba) will present Math Mania at Cedar Elementary School in Campbell River. They will be assisted by students from Carihi Secondary school in Campbell River.

Math Mania is a math education event which presents a variety of interactive demonstrations allowing students to learn math concepts in a fun and engaging way.

Staff

Position	Name	Email	Phone #	Office
PIMS Site Director - University of Victoria	Anthony Quas	aquas@uvic.ca	(250) 472-4271
Site Administrator - University of Victoria	Kristina McKinnon	pimsadmin@uvic.ca	+1 (250) 472-4271	DTB-A425

Name	Position	Research Interests	Supervisor	Year
Felix Christian Clemen	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Combinatorics	Natasha Morrison	2024
Tianxia (Tylar) Jia	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Applied Mathematics, PDE & Meteorology	Slim Ibrahim	2024
Kesav Krishnan	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes	Gourab Ray	2023
Kristýna Zemková	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta/University of Victoria	Linear and Multilinear Algebra	Stefan Gille	2022
Kumar Roy	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Mathematical Physics	Boualem Khouider	2022
Elizabeth Carlson	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Partial Differential Equations	David Goluskin	2021
Natalie Behague	PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria	Combinatorics	Natasha Morrison	2021
Shangzhi Zeng	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Victoria	Operations research, Mathematical Programming	Jane J. Ye	2020
Jason Bramburger	University of Victoria	Dynamical systems and ergodic theory	David Goluskin	2019
Boyi Li	University of Victoria	Operator Theory	Marcelo Laca	2018
Hung Le	University of Victoria	Computer Science	Valerie King	2018
Yakine Bahri	University of Victoria	Nonlinear PDEs	Slim Ibrahim	2017
Diego Vela	University of Victoria	Topology	Ryan Budney	2015
Elsa Maria Dos Santos Cardoso-Bihlo	University of Victoria	Fluid mechanics/Numerical Analysis	Boualem Khouider	2015