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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.
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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.
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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
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Thursday, March 12 9:30 am: Start 9:30 am - 10:30 am: Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia) Title: Skew-linear entropies, Kantorovich operators and their ergodic theory Abstract: Kantorovich operators are non-linear extensions of Markov...
Filtering is a core task in many areas of science and engineering, including weather and climate prediction, where it is known as data assimilation. It involves estimating the conditional probability distribution of a dynamical system's states given...
Minimizing energy dissipation in driven stochastic systems is a fundamental goal in nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In the linear-response (slow driving) regime, this becomes a problem of Riemannian geometry: The control space is equipped with a...
Join us for a day of interactive Math games, FREE mini pie and a chance to claim free passes to Project Hail Mary premiere! Pi Day at the Space Centre: A Perfectly Sweet Celebration of Math & Space 🥧🚀 This March 14, celebrate the most famous number...
For a finite-dimensional algebra A over an algebraically closed field k, varieties of finite-dimensional A-modules offer a geometric perspective on the homological and categorical properties of A and its modules. These varieties parametrize vector...
A new national report from the Vancouver Sun highlights declining math performance among Canadian students and growing innumeracy, and educators like Melania Alvarez (PIMS Education Coordinator)...
In February 2026, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) hosted the Canada–France–Chile Ocean Research Connections Workshop, an international event designed to strengthen research...
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...