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

Educational, Workshop
Math Circles Winter 2025/2026 Session 3
November 3, 2025
University of British Columbia
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...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC DG-MP-PDE Seminar: Severin Schraven
November 4, 2025
University of British Columbia
Powers of Vandermonde determinants serve as model wave functions for the fractional quantum Hall effect. In this talk I will explain how one can realize the coefficients in the monomial basis as expectation values of operator products and how this...
Scientific, Conference
Optimal Transport: Stochastics, Projections, and Applications
November 5–7, 2025
Fields Institute
Event Agenda Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 09:25 – 09:30 Opening Remarks 09:30 – 10:30  Title TBA Benjamin Jourdain, CERMICS, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:35  Title TBA Yao Xie, Georgia Institute of...
Scientific, Seminar
The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Tianxia Jia
November 5, 2025
Online
We use a U-Net to make baseline power forecasts and train a diffusion model on its residuals to capture uncertainty. The diffusion samples naturally show low ensemble spread during stable atmospheric conditions and much wider spread when the...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC Probability Seminar: Mathav Murugan
November 5, 2025
University of British Columbia
We affirmatively resolve the energy image density conjecture of Bouleau and Hirsch (1986). This conjecture generalizes a foundational result in Malliavin calculus: the non-degeneracy of the Malliavin matrix of a random variable implies absolute...
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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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Scientific Events

From 1996-2025 PIMS has supported over 6500 scientific events

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Keeping Math Skills Sharp
July 31, 2025
On CTV Morning Live, Dr. Melania Alvarez of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences at UBC outlines methods to keep your math skills sharp!
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