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2022 Krieger-Nelson Prize is awarded to Matilde Lalín
Congratulations to Matilde Lalín (CICMA and CRM member) who has been awarded the 2022 Krieger-Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) for her outstanding contribution to Number Theory and related fields. The Krieger-Nelson Prize was first awarded in 1995 in recognition of outstanding contributions in the area of mathematical research by [...]
André Joyal is awarded the 2022 Jeffery-Williams Prize
Congratulations to André Joyal (CIRGET and CRM member) who will receive the 2022 Jeffery-Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) at the Summer Meeting of the CMS. The Jeffery-Williams Prize was first awarded in 1968 to recognize mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to mathematical research. For more information
John McKay (1939-2022)
It is with sadness that we learned of the death of John McKay, a distinguished member of CICMA and the CRM, on April 19 in Montreal. Obtaining a PhD (Computer Science) from the University of Edinburgh in 1971, he joined Concordia University in 1974, becoming a professor in the Department of Computer [...]
Yoshua Bengio named Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur
Long-time CRM member Yoshua Bengio was named Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur on March 7 during a ceremony at the French Consulate in Montreal. Mrs. Kareen Rispal, Ambassador of France to Canada, awarded this honour to Professor Bengio. Warm congratulations to him!
SMS 2024 – Call for proposals
The steering board of the "Séminaire de Mathématiques Supérieures'' (SMS) invites letters of intent from potential organizers of the 2024 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 [...]
CRM Research grant for ISM courses given online
To make the content of certain specialized ISM courses available to a broader audience, in particular potential students and collaborators, the CRM is offering a research grant of $2,000 to eligible professors who give their ISM courses on Zoom. The selected courses will be streamed live as well as recorded and available [...]
The 2022 CRM-SSC Prize is awarded to Pengfei Li
Congratulations to Pengfei Li (University of Waterloo) who has been awarded the CRM-SSC prize in statistics for ground-breaking and pioneering research contributions to the EM-test for the order of finite mixture models; for original and creative methodological developments in the areas of the empirical likelihood, density ratio models, statistical genetics, non-probability [...]
A meeting of exploration and evaluation: the IRL-CRM and France-Québec cooperation in the mathematical sciences
February 27 and 28, 2024 To mark the renewal of the agreement between the [...]
New thematic network Santé Numérique of FRQS
Santé Numérique, a new thematic network, has recently been approved by the FRQS: https://frq.gouv.qc.ca/le-frqs-soutient-15-reseaux-thematiques-de-recherche/ [...]
Registration open for the IDMS summer school
An annual summer school named “Increasing Diversity in Mathematical & Related Sciences” has been [...]
