News & Updates

On November 28, 2012, Nassif Ghoussoub, the founding director of PIMS, will receive the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal at a ceremony in Ottawa.Ghoussoub served as PIMS’ director from 1996 to...

The Fellows of the American Mathematical Society program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of...

The Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences are pleased to announce the 2013 competition for the CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in...

PIMS BC Education Coordinator, Melania Alvarez comments to the Georgia Straight on the math education crisis in BC: http://www.straight.com/article-823001/vancouver/spotlight-education-math-crisis...

The PIMS invites nominations of outstanding young researchers in the mathematical sciences for Postdoctoral Fellowships for the year 2013-2014. Candidates must be nominated by at least one scientist...

Proofs in Prime Ben Green has always been drawn to math. Recalling his involvement in mathematical Olympiad competitions in high school, he says, “I think that’s when a lot of people realize they are...

Alejandro Adem has been appointed to a second five-year term as Director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), beginning July 1, 2013.Dr. Adem is a Professor of Mathematics at...

Transporting Ideas in Math“I don’t know whether it’s better to say that I chose math or math chose me” says Robert McCann. “Initially I just followed the path of least resistance, but I think that...

The UBC headquarters for the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) has moved to a new state-of-the-art, centrally located facility on the 4th floor of the brand new Earth Sciences...

Math on the Move (MOTM) 2012 By Kathleen Nolan and J. Harley WestonMath on the Move (MOTM) has been more ambitious in 2012 than ever before! The initiative (based in Regina Saskatchewan) visited seven...

PIMS is proud to announce that Melania Alvarez, PIMS’ BC Education Coordinator, is the recipient of the Canadian Mathematical Society’s 2012 Adrien Pouliot Award in recognition of her contributions to...

On July 30, 2012, Alexei Kitaev (Caltech) received one of nine Fundamental Physics Prizes, awarding $3 million to recognize transformative advances in the field.Kitaev, a professor of theoretical...