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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 [...]
UNESCO publishes Mathematics for Action to coincide with International Mathematics Day
Published on March 14 to mark International Mathematics Day, Mathematics for Action: Supporting Science-Based Decision Making is a series of policy briefs produced by UNESCO, the Centre de recherches mathématiques, the International Mathematical Union, the International Science Council and their partners. With help from the CRM, Christiane Rousseau spearheaded the toolkit [...]
Joint CRM-ISM initiative in support of mathematicians in distress
Prompted by the events in Ukraine, the Centre de recherches mathématiques and the Institut des sciences mathématiques offer a program in support of mathematicians in distress due to war, oppression, and persecution. The initiative aims to provide a temporary safe haven to international researchers in mathematical and statistical sciences, so that they [...]
CRM Statement Regarding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Participation in the 2022 ICM
The Centre de recherches mathématiques shares the concerns relative to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as expressed in the Official Statement of the Canadian Mathematical Society in relation to the organization of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2022 (the statement can be found at the link below). The CRM supports the [...]
2022 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize is awarded to Bálint Virág
We are pleased to announce that the 2022 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize is awarded to Bálint Virág, of the University of Toronto. The price is awarded for his exceptional contributions to mathematical research, in the area of probability. Virág earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000, after which he was [...]
Guillaume Lajoie wins the Simons Collaboration Prize on the Global Brain (SCGB) 2021
Congratulations to Guillaume Lajoie who has been awarded the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) 2021 Foundation Award. Professor Lajoie is a member of the MILA laboratory and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal. The award was given to Professor Lajoie jointly with Professor Amy Orsborn of the [...]
2021 CAP-CRM Prize is awarded to Robert Raussendorf
The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) are pleased to announce that the 2021 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics is awarded to Robert Raussendorf, University of British Columbia, to recognize his eminent contributions to the theory of quantum computing, including groundbreaking work on measurement-based [...]
New Director of the IRL-CRM of the CNRS
The CRM welcomes Emmanuel Royer, who has been appointed Director of the IRL for [...]
The Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) becomes institutional partner of the CRM
The Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) joins the CRM as institutional partner. This new [...]
Call for applications for CNRS supported research visits to France
The Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) is offering mathematicians working in an [...]
