SMS 2025 Call for proposals

The steering board of the “Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures” (SMS) invites letters of intent from potential organizers of the 2025 summer school. The letter (suggested length: 1-2 pages) should contain the proposed title of the school, names and affiliations of the organizers, as well as a short description of proposed mini-courses and the names and affiliations of prospective lecturers. The 2025 SMS is expected to be hosted by the Fields Institute in Toronto.

The SMS is a high-level summer school in pure and applied mathematics that has been taking place annually since 1961. The usual duration of the school is two weeks. The main institutional partners of the SMS are the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (Montréal), the Fields Institute (Toronto), the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (Vancouver), the Institut des Sciences Mathématiques (Montréal) and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley). It also receives the support of the Université de Montréal.

The selection of the winning proposal will be made by the steering board composed of Hélène Barcelo (MSRI), Octav Cornea (U de M and CRM), Henri Darmon (McGill), Deirdre Haskell (McMaster and Fields), Nilima Nigam (Simon Fraser) and Iosif Polterovich (U de M, SMS Director).

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The letters of intent will be accepted till May 31, 2023. The successful applicants will be asked to submit a full proposal which is due in September, 2023.