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This agreement, made between CRM, located in Montréal, Canada, and FIM, located in Zurich, Switzerland, establishes the terms under which the Institutes agree to collaboratively organise and conduct joint tandem workshops to foster research cooperation between their respective communities.

Eyal Goren obtained his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in January 1997, under the supervision of E. De Shalit. After a postdoctoral period at Harvard University and the University of Utrecht, he arrived as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, where he became assistant professor in June 1999 and [...]

The CRM welcomes Franco Saliola to its team as Scientific Deputy Director from July 1, 2024 for a 2-year term. Franco Saliola is a professor at UQAM and current director of the CRM research lab LACIM (Laboratoire d’algèbre, de combinatoire et d’informatique mathématique). He obtained his PhD in 2006 from Cornell [...]

The Ribenboim Prize of the Canadian Number Theory Association is usually presented biennially for distinguished research in number theory by a mathematician who is Canadian (or has close connections to Canadian mathematics) and has received their Ph.D. in the last 12 years.  Due to the pandemic, the 2022 prize was awarded [...]

The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM - Montréal) and the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM - Barcelona) have signed a collaborative agreement beginning  July 1, 2024 for an initial duration of two years, with the possibility of extension. This initiative includes mirror conferences taking place simultaneously at the two centers and [...]

This year's winner is Alexandre Bouchard-Côté from the University of British Columbia. Biography Alexandre Bouchard-Côté was born and raised in Quebec, receiving a BSc Honours from McGill University in 2005.  He continued with graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his PhD in 2010, completed under the supervision of [...]

At its meeting on May 1, 2024, the CRM Board of Directors made several appointments and term extensions to the CRM Management Team. These appointments will take effect on July 1, 2024. First, the CRM is proud to welcome two new professors to its management team: Franco Saliola (UQAM) has been [...]

The CRM community was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jim Simons, co-founder and chairman of the Simons Foundation, on May 10 in New York City at the age of 86. Gifted in the field of mathematics, Jim Simons obtained his undergraduate degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [...]