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PIMS Network Wide Colloquium

PIMS 2025-2026 Network Wide Colloquium begins on Thursday September 25th with our first speaker, Fields Medalist Curtis McMullen. Four other speakers will round out this high profile network wide event.

CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize

The CRM–Fields–PIMS institutes proudly announce Robert McCann as the 2026 winner, recognized for his exceptional research and landmark contributions to optimal transport theory

PIMS Network Wide Courses

The PIMS Network Wide Courses programs helps share graduate level courses throughout the PIMS network. Registration for winter courses is now open. Application deadlines vary but begin in November.

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award

PIMS-BIRS-Simons Travel Award helps provides funding for researchers attending a BIRS 5-day (or longer) program to maximize the impact of their travel by visiting a PIMS site for collaboration.

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

Infectious disease outbreaks have precipitated a profusion of mathematical models. Epidemic curves predicted by these models are typically qualitatively similar, despite distinct model assumptions, but there is no theoretical explanation for this...

We will discuss a class of ideals in a polynomial ring studied by Mark Haiman in his work on the Hilbert scheme of points and discuss how they are related to homology of affine Springer fibers, Khovanov-Rozansky homology of links, and to a conjecture...

Not all convex functions have finite minimizers; some can only be minimized by a sequence as it heads to infinity. In this work, we aim to develop a theory for understanding such minimizers at infinity. We study astral space, a compact extension of...

Model categories provide a powerful framework for abstract homotopy theory, but their complexity often makes them difficult to classify. By focusing on finite categories, especially grids, we gain a combinatorial setting where the problem becomes...

Differential equations can be studied from a purely geometric point of view, translating many constructions from finite-dimensional differential geometry into their language. This approach helps to clarify such notions as symmetries, conservation...

Advances in protein folding and structure prediction models have enabled new computational approaches to immunotherapeutic research by providing access to high-quality structural information at scale. In this talk, we present three core application...

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Important Dates

January 31, 2026

2026 PIMS Call for Educational Proposals

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Latest News & Updates

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Raymond Spiteri as its new Co-Director, Careers. Professor Spiteri completed his graduate...

We are pleased to highlight the latest contribution to the Maths & Oceans series by Paul Vigneaux, published under the umbrella of CNRS Mathematics. The article, titled “ Maths & Oceans #2: Mascaret...

The 2026 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize has been awarded to Professor Robert McCann, a leading figure in the theory of optimal transport and one of Canada’s most influential mathematicians. A faculty member at...

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