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

Scientific, Seminar
UBC Math Bio Seminar: Jared Barber
April 15, 2026
University of British Columbia
Cell migration plays a role in many contexts including cancer cell metastasis and wound healing. Better characterizing the process can help us slow down or speed up cells and improve related conditions. To this end, we developed two different models...
Scientific, Seminar
UW AGD Seminar: Zhiqian (Simon) Du
April 15, 2026
University of Washington
We give a new proof that translation-invariant free Fermion frustration-free models have zero Hall conductance. The central argument is that in frustration-free models, edge modes can’t merge into the ground state band. We also give an example of...
Scientific, Colloquia
PIMS-UManitoba Distinguished Colloquium: Dave Campbell
April 16, 2026
University of Manitoba
Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Text embeddings have revolutionized the use of text as data leading to vastly improved document clustering and retrieval and recommender systems by finding lower dimensional structure in the text. Furthermore, these...
Scientific, Seminar
05C50 Online Seminar: Lord Kavi
April 17, 2026
Online
Graph toughness, introduced by Chvátal in 1973, is a key measure of how well different parts of a graph are connected, with implications for Hamiltonicity, spanning trees, connectivity, and more. We derive new bounds on graph toughness and confirm...
Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
URegina-PIMS Distinguished Lecture: Lea Beneish
April 17, 2026
University of Regina
Let F be a homogeneous polynomial of degree n in at least d 2 + 1 variables over the p-adic numbers, Q p . Artin conjectured that such F always have nontrivial zeros in any p -adic field. Although this has been shown to be false in general, the...
Scientific, Seminar
SFU MOCAD Seminar: Ricardo Baptista
April 17, 2026
Simon Fraser University
A fundamental problem in artificial intelligence is how to simultaneously deploy data from different sources, such as audio, images, text, and video, collectively known as multimodal data. In this talk, I will present a mathematical framework for...
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PIMS Acknowledges

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We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

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PIMS hosts an International Research Lab of the CNRS

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We acknowledge the support from the Simons Foundation

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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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Syzygy Users

Syzygy is a JupyterHub service created by PIMS

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Scientific Events

From 1996-2025 PIMS has supported over 6500 scientific events

Latest News & Updates

Celebrating 30 Years of PIMS
March 13, 2026
On March 14—Pi Day—the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) begins celebrating 30 years of advancing the mathematical sciences. For three decades, PIMS has supported research...
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