NEWS AT THE CRM

Algebra and Combinatorics at LaCIM

On the occasion of CRM's 50th anniversary in 2018, the Laboratoire de Combinatoire et d'Informatique Mathématique (LaCIM) organizes a month of scientific activities to discuss the state-of-the-art and manifold interconnections between the lively topics that have long been at the core of research at LaCIM: algebraic combinatorics, combinatorial representation theory, Coxeter groups theory, combinatorics of words, discrete geometry, enumerative combinatorics, mathematical computer science and their applications. | Read more

Michael Aizenman, mathematical physicist at Princeton, will give his lectures September 24, 25 et 27, 2018. | Read more

Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (CNRS, Université de Bordeaux) — Aisenstadt Chair 2018

Mireille Bousquet-Mélou's lecture will be given on October 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2018 at the CRM. | Read more

The 2019-2020 Postdoctoral Awards Competition begins in September 2018 and ends on December 7, 2018. | Read more

Professor Louise Poirier joins the CRM management team

In his last budget, the Government of Quebec mandated the CRM to develop in collaboration with CIRANO an initiative to increase numeracy. A budget of one million dollars has been provided in 2018-2019 to that end. | Read more

Luc Vinet, director of the CRM Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada

At the helm of the CRM since 2013, and rector of the UdeM from 2005 to 2010, Luc Vinet is welcomed as Fellow at The Royale Society of Canada through his contribution and impact on mathematical physics. | The Royal Society of Canada | UdeMnouvelles

Algebra and Combinatorics at LaCIM

On the occasion of CRM's 50th anniversary in 2018, the Laboratoire de Combinatoire et d'Informatique Mathématique (LaCIM) organizes a month of scientific activities to discuss the state-of-the-art and manifold interconnections between the lively topics that have long been at the core of research at LaCIM: algebraic combinatorics, combinatorial representation theory, Coxeter groups theory, combinatorics of words, discrete geometry, enumerative combinatorics, mathematical computer science and their applications. | Read more

CRM-PCTS Workshop: Critical Phenomena in Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory

The workshop is conceived as a meeting ground for "Mathematical Physicists" and "Theoretical Physicists" over topics that are of current research interest. Interesting and novel results are currently being developed through different tools and perspectives in the field.  | Read more

Quantum Information and Quantum Statistical Mechanics

In Quantum Information Theory (QIT) one studies quantum systems consisting of a finite (potentially large) number of elementary systems with a finite-dimensional state space. The most common case is that of systems of qubits, each of which has a two-dimensional state space.| Read more

David Haziza (Université de Montréal) — 2018 CRM-SSC Prize

David Haziza's lecture will be held on October 12, 2018 at the CRM.

The recipient of the CRM-SSC prize in Statistics is professor David Haziza of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Université de Montréal. This award recognizes a Canadian or permanent resident of Canada for outstanding research in the Statistical Sciences accomplished during the first fifteen years after earning a doctorate. | Read more

The Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) are pleased to announce that the 2018 CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics is awarded to Ariel Zhitnitsky, University of British Columbia, for his ground-breaking contributions to theoretical high energy physics, in particular for his development of the "invisible axion" model, and for his work on the vacuum structure of non-Abelian gauge theories. | Read more

Professor Ben Rossman of the University of Toronto is the winner of the 2018 André-Aisenstadt Prize.  | Read more

Professor Bengio was honored for his contribution to the area of artificial intelligence. | Read more

Gilles Brassard, member of the CRM and professor at the Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle at the Université de Montréal, was named "personnalité de la semaine" by Presse this week.  | Read more

The recipients of the top honours in the mathematical sciences, announced on August 1, 2018 at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Rio de Janeiro, include three former holders of distinguished visiting positions at the CRM. Receiving the Fields Medal were Akshay Venkatesh (CRM André Aisenstadt Chair, 2010) and Alessio Figalli (CRM Nirenberg Lecturer, 2014), while Masaki Kashiwara (CRM André Aisenstadt Chair, 2010) was awarded the Chern Prize. The CRM heartily congratulates these and all other medalists and prizewinners from ICM 2018, including Caucher Birkar and Peter Scholze (Fields medalists), David Donoho (recipient of the Gauss prize), and Constantinos Daskalakis (recipient of the Nevanlinna prize). Videos of lectures delivered by Figalli and Kashiwara during their residencies at the CRM may be found in the CRM video library.

Pavel Winternitz, 2018 Wigner medal winner

Professor Winternitz has been a CRM member for many decades. He was instrumental in making the CRM into an internationally-renowned institution. He is also a member of the CRM Physics mathematics laboratory. He is professor at the mathematics and statistics department of the Université de Montréal.
During his career, he obtained many honors and prizes among them the CAP-CRM Prize (2002). He has published books and book chapters as well as a great number of scientific papers.

The 2018 Wigner Medal has been awarded to him for his fundamental contribution to the determination and application of symmetries in the resolution of differential and difference equations and (super-) integrable systems.

The medal will be awarded during the 32nd International Colloquium on Group Theoretical methods in Physics (Group 32), July 9 - 13, 2018 in Prague. Professor Winternitz will be a plenary speaker during this event. | Read more

Robert P. Langlands - Abel Prize 2018

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2018 to Robert P. Langlands of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA "for his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory." He has been awarded the Abel Prize for his work dating back to January 1967. He was then a 30-year-old. Mr. Langlands was a member of the CRM until 2005 and was the Aisenstadt Chair in 1987. | Read more

Iovita and Radziwill from CICMA at ICM

Two members of the Laboratoire CICMA have been invited to present their work in the number theory section of the International Congress of Mathematicians, which will be held in Rio in 2018: Adrian Iovita (Concordia) and Maksym Radziwill (McGill). Congratulations to Adrian and Maksym on this recognition of their superb research achievements of the past years, which brings credit to the CRM and to the laboratoire CICMA. Several former CICMA postdocs also figure among the roster of invited speakers, notably Fabrizio Andreatta, Kaisa Matomaki, and James Maynard. | The ICM