Past Events

Further information forthcoming.

At the 17th annual PIMS Elementary Math Contest (ELMACON), students from grades 5, 6, and 7 will compete in separate divisions, each of which is comprised of three rounds: Sprint, Target (both written) and Countdown (a verbal one-on-one competition)...

The “language" of mathematics has been developed since the dawn of humanity to describe and comprehend the surrounding world and its phenomena. Mathematics as a science and a school subject is widely identified with the mechanical rules of algebra or...

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org. Wavelets have been successfully applied to many areas. For high-dimensional problems such as image/video processing, separable wavelets are widely used but are known to have some shortcomings such...

Math Mania is a popular alternative math education event sponsored by PIMS' UBC and University of Victoria sites, which has run in elementary schools on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland since 1997. Held several times a year, Math Mania...

The 5th Aboriginal Math K-12 Symposium is an opportunity for teachers, administrators, Ministry representatives, community members, and academics to connect, explore, imagine and share new ideas, resources and research on Aboriginal mathematics...

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org. Many problems in science and engineering require the reconstruction of an object - an image or signal, for example - from a collection of measurements. Due to time, cost or other constraints, one is...

Math Mania is a popular alternative math education event sponsored by PIMS' UBC and University of Victoria sites, which has run in elementary schools on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland since 1997. Held several times a year, Math Mania...

Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian/British physicist who invented holography, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize. However, in the world of seismic data analysis, he is best known for the Gabor transform, a special case of the short-time Fourier...

Mathematical models of wind turbine blade aerodynamics have provided valuable limits on the performance for actual wind turbines. The simplest and best known is the Betz limit on power production. It is less well-known that this limit applies only at...