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PIMS Network Wide Courses

The PIMS Network Wide Courses programs helps share graduate level courses throughout the PIMS network. Registration for winter courses is now open. Application deadlines vary but begin in November.

CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize

The CRM–Fields–PIMS institutes proudly announce Robert McCann as the 2026 winner, recognized for his exceptional research and landmark contributions to optimal transport theory

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award helps provides funding for researchers attending a BIRS 5-day (or longer) program to maximize the impact of their travel by visiting a PIMS site for collaboration.

PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

PIMS 2025-2026 Network Wide Colloquium begins on Thursday September 25th with our first speaker, Fields Medalist Curtis McMullen. Four other speakers will round out this high profile network wide event.

The PIMS mandate is to promote excellent research and applications of the mathematical sciences, to facilitate the training of highly qualified personnel, to create an equitable, diverse and inclusive community in the mathematical sciences, to enrich public awareness of and education in mathematics and to create partnerships with similar organizations around the world.

Upcoming Events

A broad class of computational tasks can be phrased as the problem of determining whether two cooperating players, Alice and Bob, can convince a referee that a given statement involving relations between variables is true. Classic examples include...

Pattern formation is a fundamental element of many processes in developmental biology. One example is the self-organization of microtubules (MTs) along the inner surface (cortex) of the plant cell membrane. MTs are dynamic polymers found within many...

Communication is essential to all relationships, and the teaching and learning of mathematics is no exception. In this talk, I will share reflections and experiences that highlight how communication shapes my relationships with students, colleagues...

A good way to understand the structure of a finite group is through its representations. The family of representations of a group on a fixed field has several properties: it is closed by finite direct sums, by tensor products, it contains the dual...

Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills at the Math Circle Workshops. This is an enrichment program for students organized by the faculty members of the Department of Mathematics at the...

This talk will discuss traditional and modern approximation techniques for (expensive) derivative-free optimization, in which the approximation serves as a tool for identifying the optimality of the black-box objective, rather than merely...

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Important Dates

January 31, 2026

2026 PIMS Call for Educational Proposals

March 14, 2026

PIMS Education prize nominations due

PIMS Acknowledges

Collaborative Research Groups (CRG)

CRGs are one of PIMS flagship programs, building world class research networks.

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PIMS Postdocs

Between 1997-2025 we have supported over 450 postdoctoral positions

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Syzygy Users

Syzygy is a JupyterHub service created by PIMS

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Scientific Events

From 1996-2025 PIMS has supported over 6500 scientific events

Latest News & Updates

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Raymond Spiteri as its new Co-Director, Careers. Professor Spiteri completed his graduate...

We are pleased to highlight the latest contribution to the Maths & Oceans series by Paul Vigneaux, published under the umbrella of CNRS Mathematics. The article, titled “ Maths & Oceans #2: Mascaret...

The 2026 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize has been awarded to Professor Robert McCann, a leading figure in the theory of optimal transport and one of Canada’s most influential mathematicians. A faculty member at...

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PIMS Network Wide Courses

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