NEWS AT THE CRM

Video of the Persi Diaconis conference

As part of the Grandes conférences publiques of the CRM, Persi Diaconis gave a conference on November 27, 2019 entitled Adding Numbers and Shuffling Cards.

Video of the conference on our site and on YouTube: (if you missed it or... if you want to see it again)

From left to right:

Alejandro Adem, President of NSERC; Roseann Runte, CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI); Marie-Josée Hébert, Vice-rectrice à la recherche, à la découverte, à la création et à l'innovation at UdeM; Persi Diaconis, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University; Janice Bailey, Scientific Director of FRQNT and Luc Vinet, Director of CRM.

For the advancement of mathematics: the beginnings of the En avant math! project

Researchers from CRM and CIRANO are embarking on an ambitious project, promoting and puting forward the mathematical sciences from preschool to university including the general public.

A site: enavantmath.org

A million to give Quebecers a taste for mathematics

The recipe to make mathematics more enjoyable

Video of the En avant math! project announcement on November 28, 2019 on our site and on YouTube

Three components:

• - The CRM and CIRANO will produce a series of analyzes that will provide evidence to feed the reflection.
• - An advisory committee made up of key players in Quebec society to lead the reflection.
• - A call for proposals of field activities for all audiences in Quebec open now until February 15, 2020. Click here to submit a project: L'avenir est mathématique.

Christiane Rousseau leads UNESCO to establish the International Day of Mathematics

March 14 is proclaimed the International Day of Mathematics by UNESCO since November 25, 2019, thanks to the initiative of Christiane Rousseau who has been leading this initiative since the beginning. Christiane Rousseau is a member of the CRM and a newly retired professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Université de Montréal. See the article from the Forum of udemnouvelles.

The 2020 theme will be "Mathematics is everywhere", for example, in the selected date. Indeed, March 14 is already celebrated in some countries as the Day of Pi, since March 14 is also written 3/14, which corresponds to the approximation 3.14.

Thus, mathematics are even in the chosen date!

For more info: idm314.org

Professor Catherine Sulem of the University of Toronto is the winner of the 2020 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize.  | Read more

Olivier Lafitte, new CNRS Director of the UMI-CRM in Montréal

Olivier Lafitte is professor at the Galilée Institute of Paris 13 University in Villetaneuse since 2001. His areas of interest are varied, around partial differential equations and ordinary differential equations. He has been collaborating with Montréal colleagues for a long time. At the direction of the UMI-CRM (created in 2011 and co-led by the director of the CRM, Luc Vinet), Olivier Lafitte's mission is to develop collaborations and exchanges between the French and Québec mathematical communities. Research teams, who have or want to set up projects, are invited to contact him at lafitte@crm.umontreal.ca or 514-343-6111, extension 4726.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - ANDRÉ-AISENSTADT MATHEMATICS PRIZE

Launched in 1991 by the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), the André-Aisenstadt Prize offers talented young Canadian mathematicians a scholarship and medal for outstanding research achievements.

Visibility

The recipient is invited to deliver a lecture at the CRM and to write a brief article on his or her work for publication in the Bulletin of the CRM.

An international jury

The CRM's International Scientific Advisory Committee advises the CRM on all its major scientific orientations and chooses the recipient each year. The last recipient, Yaniv Plan, will give his lecture on November 15, 2019 at 4 pm in room 6214 at Pavillon André-Aisenstadt.

Deadline: March 1st, 2020

Please, submit the files to the email: candidature@crm.umontreal.ca | Awarding rules |

Bruno Rémillard, SSC Gold Medalist 2019

This year’s recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada is Bruno N. Rémillard. This prestigious award is bestowed upon a person who has made outstanding contributions to statistics, or to probability, either to mathematical developments or in applied work. It is intended to honour current leaders in their field. Bruno Rémillard is professor at HEC Montréal and member of the CRM Statistics laboratory. Professor Rémillard was also nominated IMS Fellow for 2019. | Read more

Dimitris Koukoulopoulos makes waves by proving the celebrated Duffin-Shaeffer conjecture

Professor Dimitris Koukoulopoulos, a member of the CICMA lab of the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and Professor in the Mathematics Department of the Université de Montréal, has caused a sensation by proving the long-standing Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture in collaboration with Professor James Maynard from Oxford University. The Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture is a vast generalization of Liouville's famous theorem on the approximation of real numbers by rational numbers. Formulated in 1941, it had long resisted the efforts of the best researchers and its proof represents a milestone in metric diophantine approximation. Koukoulopoulos and Maynard were postdoctoral researchers at the Centre de recherches mathématiques, from 2010 to 2012, and from 2013 to 2014 respectively, under the supervision of Professor Andrew Granville of the Université de Montréal. Their proof involves the "pretentious" perspective in analytic number theory pioneered by Granville in collaboration with Professor Kannan Soundararajan of Stanford University.

Other references on this breakthrough :
Wired | Wikipedia | UdeM Nouvelles | Scientific American | Quanta - September 26, 2019 | Science et Vie - September 21, 2019 | Trust my science - September 17, 2019

Thomas J. Bothner: winner of the 2019 Gábor Szegö Prize

The Centre de recherches mathématiques would like to congratulate Thomas J. Bothner on the 2019 Gábor Szegö Award just given to him at the 15th OPSFA Symposium (Orthogonal Polynomials, Special Functions and Applications) which took place in Hagenberg, Austria. Thomas J. Bothner is Professor at the Department of Mathematics at King's College London. He was a CRM-ISM Postdoctoral Fellow from 2013 to 2015. The SIAM Activity Group on Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions (SIAG/OPSF) awards the Gábor Szegö Prize every two years since 2011 to an early career researcher for outstanding contributions. Thomas J. Bothner was very happy to receive this prize.

Jean-Philippe Lessard nominated deputy director of scientific activities at the CRM

On July 1, Jean-Philippe Lessard, professor at McGill University, was nominated deputy director of scientific programs for a two-year term. His research interests include applied mathematics, numerical analysis and partial differential equations. He replaces Louigi Addario-Berry, who has been a brilliant member of the CRM management team since 2015. We extend our sincere thanks.

Creation of the Endowment Fund Robert Langlands

The Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) of the Université de Montréal is proud to announce the creation of the Robert Langlands Endowment Fund. This fund will finance CRM activities promoting the use of the French language. These activities include training and research in mathematics in Quebec and Canada. | En savoir plus

Renewal of the subsidy granted to the UMI-CRM

The Fonds de recherche Nature et technologies (FRQNT) has confirmed the renewal of a grant of $ 300,000 to the Unité Mixte Internationale (UMI) Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM). | Read more

The CRM welcomes the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence

The Centre de recherches mathématiques welcomes the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence unveiled on December 4, 2018. The CRM, partner of MILA and IVADO, endorses this statement. One of its objectives is "to promote the digital transition so that everyone can benefit from this technological revolution". To this end, the CRM, in collaboration with CIRANO, has recently been mandated by the Quebec government to develop a national initiative to increase numeracy. | Read more

The Director of the Quebec Research Fund - Nature and Technology (FRQNT), Janice Bailey, is pleased to present the FRQNT's Award of Excellence to Professors Yoshua Bengio of the Université de Montréal and Louis Taillefer of the Université de Sherbrooke. This award was presented on the occasion of the FRQNT Research Day held in Quebec City. | Read more