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

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The PIMS Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar: Sushil Singla
April 1, 2026
Online
A common theme in mathematics is to discern properties of a mathematical structure by making certain mathematical "measurements" of that structure. In operator theory, this theme often translates to the problem of studying operators on high- or...
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UW AGD Seminar: Martin Kassabov
April 1, 2026
University of Washington
Synchronization occurs in many natural and technological systems, from cardiac pacemaker cells to coupled lasers. In the synchronized state, the individual cells or lasers coordinate the timing of their oscillations, but they do not move through...
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UVictoria Discrete Math Seminar: Gary MacGillivray
April 2, 2026
University of Victoria
A 1935 problem of Erdos and Szekeres asks for the smallest number, r(n), such that given any collection of r(n) points in the plane there exist n points no 3 of which are the vertices of a right triangle. It is known that r(4) = 8, 9, or 10, and in...
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SFU NTAG Seminar: Janet Page
April 2, 2026
Simon Fraser University
How many lines can lie on a smooth surface of degree d? This classical question in algebraic geometry has been studied since at least the mid 1800s, when Clebsch gave an upper bound of d(11d-24) for the number of lines on a smooth surface of degree d...
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UBC Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems Seminar: Chengyu Wu
April 2, 2026
University of British Columbia
This talk will focus on the embedding problem: given two subshifts, under what conditions can one be embeded into the other? We will start with the classical Krieger embedding theorem which give criteria for embedding a subshift into a mixing SFT. We...
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05C50 Online Seminar: Mark Kempton
April 3, 2026
Online
Famously, the adjacency matrix of a graph can be used to enumerate walks in graphs. This makes the adjacency spectrum important to understanding graph structure. I will talk about the non-backtracking matrix, which is used to enumerate walks that are...
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We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

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PIMS hosts an International Research Lab of the CNRS

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We acknowledge the support from the Simons Foundation

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

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Between 1997-2025 we have supported over 450 postdoctoral positions

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Celebrating 30 Years of PIMS
March 13, 2026
On March 14—Pi Day—the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) begins celebrating 30 years of advancing the mathematical sciences. For three decades, PIMS has supported research...
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