Past Events

PIMS- UBC is pleased to be hosting the inaugural PIMS celebration of Women in Mathematics on May 12! The event will be held in a hybrid format. To attend the event in person at UBC, go to Earth Sciences Building (ESB) - 2012. Details of the event are...

Advances in Cryo-electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) have for the past few years revolutionized our understanding of biological 3D structures, illustrated by the Nobel Prize of Chemistry awarded in 2017 for the discovery of the technique, and the explosive...

Prof. Brauer had two mathematical careers, the first at U Wisconsin, Madison (1960-96), where he also served as Department Chair, and the second as an emeritus honourary professor at the University of British Columbia. Fred was an active member of...

Please see the kickoff announcement for a full schedule and details of each talk.

Recent decades have seen an explosion of research in which probability theory is employed to tackle various important problems arising in statistical mechanics and mathematical physics. This has given rise to the development of diverse research areas...

In recent years, quantum information theory (QIT) has become a melting pot between disparate branches of physics. Within the last decade, tools and techniques from QIT are bringing new perspectives into fields such as quantum field theory (QFT) and...

Mean Field Game (MFG) theory studies strategic decision problems in large populations of interacting agents, which is now widely applied in economics, financial markets, engineering, social science, and many other areas. The generalization of...

The fall meeting of Oregon Number Theory Days will take place on Saturday, October 2 at Portland State University. This is a triannual seminar rotating between Oregon State University, Portland State University, and the University of Oregon...

The workshop builds on the success of the previous Prairie Discrete Math Workshops, from the first one organized by Shaun Fallat and Brian Alspach and held at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, in early October 2003, through the most...

Together with its partners, PIMS will be offering the 4-week virtual workshop MathIndustry during the month of August, 2021. For detailed information, please visit m2pi.ca. The purpose of the workshop is to help graduate students and postdoctoral...