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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-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.

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 consider isogenies on Jacobians J of genus 3 curves with a kernel that is a maximal isotropic subgroup of the 2-torsion J[2] and confront a phenomenon that is new in genus 3: for genus 1 and 2 the codomain is generally again a Jacobian of a curve...

I will give a (necessarily woefully incomplete) introduction to the measure classification paradigm in homogenous dynamics, and discuss one source of invariant measures and application of this paradigm: the Quantum Unique Ergodicity problem.

The inverse eigenvalue problem has played a central role in spectral graph theory in the last decade. In this talk, I shall be interested in a particular parameter, namely the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues of a graph G, i.e., in the minimum...

Classical Iwasawa theory studies the variation of arithmetic invariants, such as ideal class groups, along infinite towers of number field extensions. Over the years, these ideas have been extended to a wide range of arithmetic objects, including...

I will review the progress of large language models for mathematics over the last 3 years, from barely solving high school level mathematics to solving some minor open problems in convex optimization, combinatorics and probability theory. The...

Although we often introduce group theory to students using groups of symmetries, we tend to move quickly away from these intuitive representations into the realm of axioms and deductions. There are plenty of good reasons for this, not least of which...

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Important Dates

March 14, 2026

PIMS Education prize nominations due

April 15, 2026

PIMS BIRS Team Up! Applications deadline

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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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Emergent Research Seminar