News
A look back at the roundtable of November 7
On Monday, November 7, the CRM held a roundtable discussion, moderated by CRM Director Octav Cornea, on the state of the mathematical sciences in Quebec. The seven panelists were Alejandro Adem (President, NSERC), Janice Bailey (Scientific Director, FRQNT), Marie-Josée Hébert (Vice-Rector for Research, Université de Montréal), Nathalie de Marcellis-Warin (Director, CIRANO), Yoshua [...]
Matilde Lalín named to the 2023 class of AMS Fellows
Congratulations to Matilde Lalín (CICMA and CRM member) who has been named to the 2023 class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). For more information
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 [...]
2024 CRM-SSC Prize awarded to Alexandre Bouchard-Côté
This year's winner is Alexandre Bouchard-Côté from the University of British Columbia. Biography Alexandre [...]
Appointments to the Management Team
At its meeting on May 1, 2024, the CRM Board of Directors made several [...]
In Memoriam: Jim Simons (1938-2024)
The CRM community was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jim Simons, [...]
