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Table of Contents Table of contents Table of contents..............................................................................................................................1 A Word from the Director................................................................................................................3 Presenting the CRM.........................................................................................................................5 Personnel..........................................................................................................................................6 Scientific Personnel..........................................................................................................................7 Members......................................................................................................................................... 7 Postdoctoral Fellows........................................................................................................................ 8 Visitors ..........................................................................................................................................10 Management................................................................................................................................... 12 Bureau...........................................................................................................................................12 Advisory Committee.......................................................................................................................12 Computer Facilities.........................................................................................................................13 Scientific Activities........................................................................................................................ 14 Theme Year 2000-2001: Mathematical Methods in Biology and Medicine............................................14 Aisenstadt Chair.............................................................................................................................24 General Programme 2000-2001 ........................................................................................................27 CRM Prizes ....................................................................................................................................32 Members’ Seminars & Special Events...............................................................................................36 CRM-ISM Colloquium ....................................................................................................................40 World Mathematical Year ............................................................................................................. 41 Coming Events ............................................................................................................................... 43 Theme Year 2001-2002: Groups and Geometry..................................................................................43 General Programme 2001-2002 ........................................................................................................47 Theme Year 2002-2003: Mathematical Methods of Computer Science..................................................50 General Programme 2002-2003 ........................................................................................................54 Theme Year 2003-2004: Geometric and Spectral Analysis...................................................................56 Collaborations ............................................................................................................................... 59 Industrial Mathematics................................................................................................................. 64 Awards, Distinctions, and Landmarks.......................................................................................... 68 Research Programmes.................................................................................................................... 69 Publications................................................................................................................................... 85 Recent Titles...................................................................................................................................85 Previous Titles................................................................................................................................86 Research Reports ............................................................................................................................89 Financial Report ............................................................................................................................ 92 Financial Statements 2000-2001........................................................................................................95 CRM Annual Report 2000 - 2001 1 2 Annual Report 2000 - 2001 CRM A Word from the Director Each year at the CRM courses in between. The event attracted over one brings its own hundred and twenty participants for the whole memorable event, period, with over seventy students. The rest of which remains in the the year is underway, with a particularly mind long after the vigorous period extending from next April to bustle of the year is June of next year. It starts with two-week session over. Last year’s was on invariant theory being organised by our the marriage of two colleagues at Queen’s and continues in Montreal participants at a CRM with an intense period on the Langlands Summer School. program, the Canadian Number theory conference, and two workshops on the This year, the image that remains is that of the interaction of algebraic geometry and Lie theory. CRM staff preparing for RECOMB. This It will also overlap with the start of the following international meeting in genomics was hosted at year, on the Mathematics of Computer Science, the CRM in 2001, and the attendance of over 600 so the place should be rather busy. was double that of the previous year. The logistics were quite daunting, and had several The year was fairly eventful on the industrial rooms full to the ceiling with books, folders, front. The area of imaging is one which has seen programs and all the miscellaneous conference considerable growth, with the CRM’s group paraphernalia. Needless to say, the event was a being involved with two large scale imaging great success, and went off without a hitch. (The initiatives, one at the Université de Montréal and needless is obvious to all those who have worked the other at McGill, as well as developing its with Louis Pelletier and Josée Laferrière, our links with the research group at the Pitié- scientific activities staff). Salpétrière. One recent development is the opening of a spin-off company by one of the The whole year was evidence of the explosive group’s students. Also, the MITACS research growth in the whole area of Mathematical network held its annual meeting in Montreal, Biology, the theme of the year. There were 1500 which was well attended, and followed by a one participants to the various activities, including week Spring School in Optimisation, ably put more than 700 graduate students and together by Patrice Marcotte and organised postdoctoral fellows. The program included a through the CRM, with over a hundred in Summer School on Nonlinear Dynamics in attendance. Biology and Medicine, two large International Annual Meetings (CPM 2000 and RECOMB), The Network for Computing and Mathematical eleven 1-week workshops, and six courses and Modelling, which is run at the CRM, has seen seminars. The holders of the Aisenstadt Chairs several interesting new developments, including represented well the two main thrusts of the a new large laboratory run with Environment year, modelling of physiological processes, and Canada, the Laboratoire Universitaire sur le inference techniques in genomics: Arthur Temps Extrême (LUTE), the development of a Winfree spoke on Vortices in Motionless Media, joint initiative with Minnesota’s IMA, and the and Michael S. Waterman lectured on incorporation of the University of Montreal’s Mathematics for Reading and Understanding Genetic new representative of the National Research Sequences. My thanks are due to the organisers of Council’s Industrial Research Assistance the year, Leon Glass, Brian Golding, Leah Program (IRAP) within the CRM. The LUTE is a Keshet, Keith Worsley and most particularly particularly exciting new development, with an Jacques Bélair and David Sankoff. investment of $300K per year, the placing of five Meteorological Service of Canada research staff The current year’s thematic activities on Groups in a university environment, and the allocation and Geometry have already started, with one of important amounts of computer time at very successful event in June on Groups and Canada’s largest computing facility at Dorval. Low-Dimensional Topology, run with great The laboratory’s official opening will be on the ability by Steve Boyer and Dani Wise. There 6th of December. were two workshops, with a week of short CRM Annual Report 2000 - 2001 3 A w o r d f r o m t h e D i r e c t o r The year 2000 was UNESCO’s World The whole process of renewal of our local Mathematical Year, and the CRM did its share in mathematics community proceeds apace, with the organising of activities to underline the the appearance on the scene of
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