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Po-Shen Lo

PIMS welcomes back Po-Shen Loh to UBC on Saturday, October 9 at 11:30 am for a talk titled “AI Is Here. How Can We Help All the Humans? Answer: Math, With a Twist”.

PIMS-UBC Math Job Forum

Postdocs and grad students - please join us on October 22 at 12:30 PM PT for the PIMS-UBC Math Job Forum. A panel of four experts will advise job applicants on the job application process in academia and industry.

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

We prove a new signed elementary symmetric function expansion of the chromatic symmetric function. We then use sign-reversing involutions to prove e -positivity for graphs formed by joining cycles or cliques at single vertices. By considering...

Finding and enumerating Boolean intervals in $W(\mathfrak{S}_n)$, the weak order of symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_n$, can feel like trying to find needles in a haystack. However, through surprising connection to the outcome map of parking functions...

Students of grades 5 to 7 are invited to challenge and develop their thinking and creativity skills at the Math Circle Workshops. This is an enrichment program for students organized by the faculty members of the Department of Mathematics at the...

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Important Dates

December 1, 2024

PIMS Postdoc Application Deadline

March 14, 2025

PIMS Education Prize Nomination Deadline

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The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and Distriq, the Quantum Innovation Zone of Quebec have entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), establishing a collaborative partnership...

We are excited to introduce Dr. Steven Rayan as the new Site Director for the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Rayan is a full Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the...

PIMS is please to welcome Professor Eric Woolgar as the new Interim Site Director representing the University of Alberta. Professor Woolgar began his one-year term on July 1, 2024. A professor of...

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