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The CRM community is deeply saddened by the passing of Jean LeTourneux, former head of publications at the CRM and professor at the Department of Physics of the Université de Montréal. Luc Vinet, former director of the CRM and current director of IVADO, pays a heartfelt tribute to his friend and [...]

This year, the summer school will take place at the Fields Institute in Toronto June 2-13  and is part of the Fields Institute thematic program in Commutative Algebra and Applications. It will allow graduate students to learn about a number of recent trends and advances in the field of commutative algebra. [...]

Yoshua Bengio (CRM member and director of the MILA laboratory) has been awarded the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering alongside six other researchers for their pioneering work in artificial intelligence. The international award recognizes their groundbreaking contributions to modern machine learning. To read more, click here. Source: ivado.ca [...]

An article in Quanta Magazine is dedicated to a recent major mathematical achievement: a solution to a broad version of Hilbert’s 10th problem that was established by Carlo Pagano, CRM member and Professor at Concordia University, and Peter Koymans, Professor at the University of Utrecht, as well as, less than two [...]

The CRM is pleased to announce that the Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged has awarded the Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy Medal for the year 2024 to Javad Mashreghi, CRM member and Professor at Laval University. To read more, click here. Source: The Faculty of Science and Informatics of the University [...]

The CRM is pleased to announce that Christiane Rousseau, Professor Emeritus at the DMS, has been appointed Officer of the Order of Canada on December 18, 2024, for her contributions to mathematics and to mathematical outreach. She was the driving force behind the 2013 Mathematics for Planet Earth, which highlighted the [...]


The AMQ, the CRM and the ISM are offering grants of up to $500 to organize activities in Quebec related to the International Day of Mathematics 2025, whose theme is Mathematics, Art, and Creativity. The grant program is open to all and it is expected that activities be hosted by institutions [...]

The Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for Statistical Innovation for 2024 has been awarded to IMS member Christian Genest, Professor of Statistics at McGill University, for his pioneering work in copula modeling, extreme-value theory, group decision-making, and nonparametric statistics. Active in research since the mid 1980s, he has developed models and techniques [...]