**PIMS Site Director's Meeting** Thursday, October 27, 2022 University of Calgary **Attendees:** Anthony Quas Wenyuan Liao Kristine Bauer Denise Feighan Jayadev S. Athreya Thomas Hillen Chris Soteros Allen Herman Ozgur Yilmaz Nathan Ng Weiran Sun Brian Marcus Stephanie Portet **1. PIMS PDF Panel Selection and TOR (Kristine)** - the new panel selection criteria was to have a representation across all areas of mathematics. - 10 member committee expanded to 13 with mathematical expertise outside the math department (i.e. computer science department) - Brian: each department has a different cycle. - Kristine: CRGs can hire post-docs at any time they want. For PIMS-Simons applicants, they must meet the deadline (i.e. January). The committee will revisit the problem. - The PIMS Directorate will seek nomination advice if a gap is to be found in the new PDF selection process. - Shared post-doc positions will be further evaluated. - EDI & Simons grant supplements will be used as a top-up to attract HQPs. - EDI grant supplementary selection process followed. **2. Education/Outreach award - deadlines & restructuring. (Call will go live Nov. 15, deadline in February)** - PIMS Prizes and Awards: https://www.pims.math.ca/pims-glance/prizes-awards; - This year PIMS will combine the call for education award with the call for Callysto to fund the computational programs, which PIMS hopes to see the increase in the # of tapplications. **3. Preparation for Board meeting: Q&A, discussion about Breakout sessions** Ozgur gave an overview of the breakout sessions which will take place on October 28 during the board meeting. For the breakout sessions, both the board members and site directors will discuss ways to select board representatives from each region and the strategies to seek regional funding opportunities. Ozgur: In possible partnerships of UBCO and BIRS, PIMS is looking for provincial and UBC funding opportunities to support the operation of a centre that will run workshops. Jayadev gave an update on the PIMS First year Interest Groups (FYIG) https://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/first-year-interest-groups-fyig and the Virtual Experimental Mathematics Lab (VXML)https://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/vxml. **4. Pi in the Sky** Anthony reported on the current status of Pi in the Sky (https://www.pims.math.ca/resources/publications/pi-sky). *Discussion:* - Return on Investment: hard to measure the impact of printing Pi in the Sky for high printing and mailing costs. Is printing Pi in the Sky valuable and effective? - Online vs. Hard Copies vs. Hybrid; Online and Reduced # of hard copies. - Other options: blog, Twitter, sending postcards w/ QR code to schools, YouTube - make it more accessible to increase the impact. - open it up to undergraduate students. - Jayadev: can advertise it via VXML.