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CRM Call for Proposals
The CRM calls for proposals for: scientific activities, in particular thematic programs starting from 2026; outreach activities, in particular activities related to Pi Day 2023 (March 14). Most of these activities will be supported by the program En Avant Math!; activities in support of EDI goals. In all cases, proposals consisting [...]
Yoshua Bengio among the most influential scientists in the world
Yoshua Bengio, Mila's scientific director and CRM member, is the third most important scientists across all fields in the past year, according to Stanford University's annual Top 2% Scientists List. See also the news on udemnouvelles and on Mila's website.
CRM-ISM Postdoctoral Fellowships – Call for applications
The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Institut des sciences mathématiques are pleased to announce the creation of 4 postdoctoral positions for young mathematics researchers for the academic year 2023. For more information consult this page. To submit an application To be eligible for a CRM-ISM postdoctoral fellowship, [...]
CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize – Call for nominations
The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), the Fields Institute, and the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) invite nominations for the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize, awarded in recognition of exceptional research achievement in the mathematical sciences. The candidate’s research should have been conducted primarily in Canada or in affiliation with a Canadian [...]
Gilles Brassard awarded a C&C Prize
One of the NEC C&C Foundation prizes of 2022 has been awarded to Gilles Brassard (Université de Montréal) and his colleague Charles H. Bennett (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center), for their pioneering research on quantum cryptography and their key contributions to the establishment of quantum information theory. Gilles Brassard is [...]
Brenda MacGibbon (1944-2022)
It is with sadness that we learned of the passing of Brenda MacGibbon in Montreal on October 7. Brenda MacGibbon was a member of the CRM and its Statistics Laboratory. She studied mathematics at McGill University, obtaining her PhD in 1970. She was the first woman to chair the Statistical Sciences Grant [...]
2022 André Aisenstadt Prize is awarded to Yevgeny Liokumovich
The 2022 André Aisenstadt Prize is awarded to Yevgeny Liokumovich (University of Toronto) for his numerous and fundamental contributions to geometric analysis, in particular his proof with F. Marques and A. Neves of a famous conjecture due to Gromov providing an appropriate Weyl Law for the volume spectrum of general Riemannian [...]
A Breakthrough Prize is awarded to Gilles Brassard
The 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is awarded to Gilles Brassard (Université de Montreal), his colleague Charles H. Bennett (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center), as well as David Deutsch (Oxford University) and Peter W. Shor (MIT), for their foundational work in the field of quantum information. Gilles Brassard is [...]
2024 CAP-CRM Prize awarded to Bianca Dittrich
"I am deeply honoured, very happy, and thankful for receiving this prize. I want [...]
Henri Darmon named 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced their 2024 fellows, which includes one CRM [...]
The Stratégia FRQNT program funds “Modelling of emerging challenges”
A group of researchers mainly from the CRM, GERAD, and UNIQUE, with Octav Cornea [...]
