The PIMS director requests nominations from each PIMS Site Office for the PIMS Distinguished Chairs Programme . This programme supports one visiting distinguished mathematical scientist at each PIMS site. The holder of the chair is expected to visit one of the PIMS universities for at least one month and give a mini-series of lectures.
Lectures notes are also to be compiled.
In consultation with the site office local advisory committee, each site director should recommend to the PIMS director one distinguished mathematical scientist for the chair. The lecture notes may be compiled by either the speaker or by a graduate student assistant working under the supervision of the speaker. PIMS will publish the lecture notes both in print and electronically on the PIMS web site. The lecture notes should be compiled in latex format. This should cover the travel expenses, the local expenses and the honorarium paid to the chair holder.