PIMS 10th Anniversary

The Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) was created in 1996 to foster the development of mathematics at all levels in Western Canada. The first five founding Universities were Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta, the University of British Columbia, the University of Calgary, and the University of Victoria. The Departments of Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, and Statistics at the University of Washington joined PIMS in September 2000, making the UW the sixth PIMS university, and thus opening up a new era of scientific collaboration between the US and Canada.

In the last two years, PIMS has sponsored several successful activities at the UW including the "Graduate Student Warm-Up Workshop for AMS Summer Institute in Algebraic Geometry," the "PIMS-MITACS-VIGRE Summer Graduate School on Inverse Problems," the "International Conference on Stochastic Analysis and its Applications," and the workshop on "Stability and Instability of Nonlinear Waves."

In celebration of its 10th anniversary, PIMS has launched a program of distinguished lectures across all of its sites. Speakers at the UW include Kari Astala, Peter Bickel, Lee Kadanoff, Carlos Kenig, Gary Lawler, Peter Lax, Elliot Lieb, Klaus Schmidt, Richard Schoen, Stephen Smale, Peter Winkler, Bin Yu, and Jim Zidex; these mathematicians come from all over the world: from Helsinki to Vienna, from Berkeley to New York. For details of the lectures at the UW, see the web page http://www.math.washington.edu/Seminars/PIMS10th.php.

Gunther Uhlmann