News & Updates

CAIMS and PIMS are pleased to announce that Prof. Geoff Wild of the University of Western Ontario has been awarded the 2014 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics. Prof. Wild obtained...

Here’s a math problem for you: What do you get when you add one math nut to a classroom? The answer is simple: You get a love of math multiplied and divided by the number of children he teaches...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is now accepting nominations for the 2014 PIMS Education Prize. The winner receives $1000. The prize will be awarded to a member of the PIMS...

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is pleased to announce that Dr. Anthony Quas has been appointed interim PIMS site director at the University of Victoria for the term January 1...

The Canadian Mathematical Sciences Institutes are pleased to announce that the winner of the CRM - Fields - PIMS Prize for 2014 is Prof Niky Kamran of McGill University. He has spent his career in...

Commercial math/logic games for middle and high school students - Susan Milner, University of the Fraser Valley Most of these games have many levels, the highest of which are often challenging even...

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences are pleased to announce the 2014 competition for the CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in...

Ms. Tsou, a math teacher from St. John Brebeuf Secondary in Abbotsford, BC wrote to PIMS: In 2003, I established a mathematics enrichment program for our school. I incorporated various activities for...

media release Hands-on math, science draws Aboriginal students October 21, 2013 Contact: Diane Mar-Nicolle, 778.782.9586; dianem@sfu.ca Marianne Meadahl, PAMR, 778.782.4323; Marianne_Meadahl@sfu.ca...

Ivar Ekeland was the Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Economics at the University of British Columbia from 2003 to 2011. During his career, he has served as the President of Université Paris...

Back to the Root Neil Trudinger is an Australian mathematician who during his undergraduate degree was trying to decide between math and physics. “I had a job in a BHP laboratory working with...

Articles from both CBC News and the University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Science highlight new Math Mania initiatives for Aboriginal students. U of S spreads love of math to First Nations...