Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical (PIMS), based at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, is a decentralized mathematical research institute that was founded in 1996. The founders were a consortium of five universities in Alberta and British Columbia in western Canada, later Saskatchewan and the US state of Washington ( University of Washington ) were added, so that the institute is binational.
Its goals are to promote research, training and further education at universities and for school teachers, interdisciplinary cooperation with other subject areas, international cooperation and exchange, and public relations for mathematics. They have branches at all nine participating universities (as well as Portland State University and the University of Northern British Columbia ) and operate remotely. They host research groups (Collaborative Research Groups, CRG), post-doctoral programs and organize workshops and conferences. They also organize programs and competitions for school children (with special support programs for indigenous people) and publish a magazine for them, Pi in the Sky .
One focus is education and research in mathematical biology and industrial mathematics.
It is one of three major national mathematics research institutes in Canada, alongside the oldest institute, the Center de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM) in Montreal and the Fields Institute in Toronto . With these, the PIMS awards the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize .
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- ^ University of Alberta , University of Calgary , University of British Columbia , Simon Fraser University , University of Victoria
- ^ With other universities: University of Regina , University of Saskatchewan , University of Lethbridge in Alberta