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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.

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.

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.

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

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

We are extremely pleased to announce that Dr. Inwon Kim, Professor of Mathematics at UCLA, will deliver an upcoming lecture in the Hugh C. Morris Lecture Series. Dr. Kim is internationally recognized for her influential work in analysis and PDEs...

An abstract discrete dynamical system consists of a set X and a self-map f from X to itself. Dynamics studies the orbits of points of X under repeated application of f. When X and f are defined by polynomials, algebraic geometry comes into play, and...

Given an abelian variety G defined over a field of characteristic 0, the intersection between a subvariety X of G with another subvariety Y of G for which dim(X) + dim(Y) dim(G) is generally expected to be empty. Rooted in this basic observation...

We obtain symmetry results of the solution to some overdetermined problems related to the eigenvalue equation on a weakly star shaped annular domain in space forms. If the associated P-function is constant on the boundary, then we get a Serrin type...

Throughout scientific and commercial domains, we are often interested in separating mixed signals into their component sources. Supervised deep learning is state-of-the-art when large and well-labeled datasets can be used. But in many applications...

The global population with access to electricity is constantly increasing from 84 to 92 percent. However, as the world continues to advance towards sustainable energy targets, there still exist 900 million people living without access to electricity...

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Important Dates

January 31, 2026

2026 PIMS Call for Educational Proposals

PIMS Acknowledges

Collaborative Research Groups (CRG)

CRGs are one of PIMS flagship programs, building world class research networks.

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PIMS Postdocs

Between 1997-2025 we have supported over 450 postdoctoral positions

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Scientific Events

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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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Maths, Oceans & International Collaboration

Emergent Research Seminar