NEWS AT THE CRM

Hélène Desmarais and Luis Seco named to the CRM's Board of Directors

Hélène Desmarais is Chairperson of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal (CEIM). She also chairs the Board of Directors of HEC Montréal.

Luis Seco is a co-founder and the President and CEO of Sigma Analysis & Management. He started his career in financial risk management in 1996, while a Professor at the University of Toronto, creating the RiskLab Toronto, a research center that serviced the financial sector. He is currently the Director of the Mathematical Finance Program at the University of Toronto.

October 4 - 7, 2016 — Workshop at the CRM

Probabilistic Methods in Dynamical Systems and Applications

Probabilistic results in number theory; geometry of Teichmuller spaces; renormalization methods in dynamical systems; random variational problems; dynamical systems methods in PDE; and other topics.| Read more

October 11 - 14, 2016 — Workshop at the CRM

14th RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite

Despite the remarkable unity of the basic components of the living world (DNA, RNA, the genetic code), we are probably still not aware of the diversity of genome structures nor of the diversity of means genomes use to evolve. | Read more

October 24, 2016 — Workshop at the CRM

CRM Networking Industrial Workshops - Energy

The CRM Networking Industrial Workshops will focus on energy and will host about ten speakers. | Read more

A Message from Canada's Mathematical Sciences Institutes for Canada's Fundamental Science Review

The Mathematical Sciences are the foundation of any advanced research ecosystem, and Canada’s mathematical sciences institutes have been instrumental in supporting this ecosystem. They do so by providing scientific leadership, by developing coherent national strategies for mathematical and statistical discovery and innovation, by transcending geographic and disciplinary barriers, by maximizing provincial leveraging, by spearheading international partnerships, and by connecting the research enterprise with the imperatives of providing training and education at all levels. | Read more

The Centre de recherches mathématiques is proud to have amongst its members Yoshua Bengio, founder of MILA (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms), a CRM laboratory, and Andrea Lodi, chairholder of the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-Time Decision-Making, at Polytechnique Montréal. | Read more

Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Fields Medalist and 2008 Aisenstadt Chair holder, passed away on September 3, 2016, at age 59. | Read more | 2008 Lecture

August 17, 2016 — Partnership CRM-MITACS

Internships Pair Mathematics Researchers with Organizations

The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and Mitacs, a national not-for-profit research and training organization, have partnered to see graduate and postdoctoral researchers solve challenges in collaboration with businesses and not-for-profit organizations using applications of mathematical sciences.| Read more |

July 6, 2016 — CRM-IMPA Cooperation Agreement

The CRM is pleased to announce a memorandum of understanding with Brazil's national mathematics research centre.  | Read more |

2016 CRM-SSC Prize

Radu Craiu Winner of the 2016 CRM-SSC Prize

To Radu Craiu, for fundamental contributions to the methodology and theory of MCMC, for diverse investigations into statistical uses of copulas, for significant insights into statistical genetics and false discovery rates, for work on the editorial board of several research journals, and for mentorship of numerous research students.  | Read more

The 2016 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

The 2016 prize is awarded to Freddy Cachazo

Dr. Freddy Cachazo is a theoretical physicist who has made outstanding contributions to the field of mathematical physics, many of which are widely characterized as breakthroughs. | Read more