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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.

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 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.

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

The annual Changing the Culture Conference, organized and sponsored by the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, brings together mathematicians, mathematics educators and school teachers from all levels to work together towards narrowing...

This alternative math education event will present fun activities to explore math and computer science concepts to children (and adults!) using games and art! Lots of hands-on activities such as: Sorting network An impossible balancing act...

Program Download the full program [pdf] for abstracts and other details. Special Guest Lecture: First Nation Leadership in Clean Energy and Climate Action Speaker: Judith Sayers, indigenous leader, Chancellor of Vancouver Island University, President...

From May 25-June 12, 2026 the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) will be running our popular Math to Power Industry workshop (M2PI 2026). This hybrid workshop pairs industry problems with mathematical talent, aiming to benefit...

I will tell the story of a mathematical problem which can be understood and tested by a child, yet which has resisted solution for over a century, in spite of the efforts of many prominent mathematicians. I will describe in parallel the development...

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Important Dates

May 15, 2026

PIMS Network Wide Colloquium 2026/27 Call for Nominations

May 15, 2026

Math Teachers Summer School Application Deadline

June 12, 2026

Séminaires de mathématiques supérieures (SMS) LOI Application Deadline

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

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Scientific Events

From 1996-2025 PIMS has supported over 6500 scientific events

Latest News & Updates

PIMS is excited to host the 2028 Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures (SMS) in Vancouver, and the SMS steering board is now accepting letters of intent from prospective organizing teams. The SMS is...

The 2026 Elementary Mathematics Competition (ELMACON) took place on Saturday, May 2, 2026, welcoming more than 350 students in Grades 5, 6, and 7 to the University of British Columbia for one of...

We were pleased to host senior leadership from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). A key highlight was the signing of a Letter of Intent between CNRS and the University of British...

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PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

PIMS-Supported Research Leads to Major Quantum Computing Initiative

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award

Emergent Research Seminar

PIMS Network Wide Courses

Maths, Oceans & International Collaboration

PIMS/BIRS Team Up! Pathways to Inclusive Research

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