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Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................................... 1 A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR..................................................................................................... 2 PRESENTING THE CRM................................................................................................................... 4 PERSONNEL..................................................................................................................................... 5 SCIENTIFIC PERSONNEL................................................................................................................. 6 Members ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Postdoctoral Fellows ....................................................................................................................... 8 Visitors........................................................................................................................................... 9 MANAGEMENT...............................................................................................................................11 Bureau ..........................................................................................................................................11 Advisory Committee......................................................................................................................11 Computer Facilities........................................................................................................................12 SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES.................................................................................................................13 Theme Year 1998-1999 ...................................................................................................................13 Chaire Aisenstadt...........................................................................................................................20 General Program............................................................................................................................22 CRM Prizes ...................................................................................................................................27 Member’s Seminars & Special Events ..............................................................................................31 CRM-ISM Colloquium....................................................................................................................36 COMING EVENTS...........................................................................................................................37 Theme Year 1999-2000....................................................................................................................37 General Program 1999-2000 ............................................................................................................43 Theme Year 2000-2001....................................................................................................................45 General Program 2000-2001 ............................................................................................................49 Theme Year 2001-2002....................................................................................................................50 RESEARCH PROGRAMS .................................................................................................................51 COLLABORATIONS........................................................................................................................65 INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIPS .......................................................................................................67 PUBLICATIONS...............................................................................................................................70 Recent Titles ..................................................................................................................................70 Previous Titles...............................................................................................................................71 Research Reports ...........................................................................................................................74 FINANCIAL REPORT.......................................................................................................................77 CRM Annual Report 1998-1999 1 A WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR This report is my first as Director of the CRM, publications programme, was also very active : and it has given me the opportunity to reflect our two joint series with the American somewhat on the nature of the ship of which I Mathematical Society continued to flourish and have taken over the helm, as well as to the CRM series in Mathematical Physics contemplate its record and its achievements. published by Springer-Verlag saw its first three volumes produced and manuscripts were The main result of this contemplation is that submitted for the initial volumes of the CRM it is a remarkably fit and efficient ship. This is subseries of the Springer Lecture Notes in due in large measure to the remarkable efforts Statistics. Finally we had the honour of expended by my predecessors, in particular my publishing the complete works of the eminent immediate predecessor, Luc Vinet. Thanks to his number theorist Sarvadaman Chowla. Our efforts, and to those of the vigourous and computer system got a major and much needed efficient team surrounding him, the CRM now boost, thanks to a grant from the Canadian has stable funding for its activities; these Foundation for Innovation. activities, such as theme programs, general programs, publications, have expanded It is on the industrial front that major considerably, and several large new initiatives in developments occured. The big news was the industrial mathematics such as the ncm2, Bell- funding of MITACS (Mathematics of LUB, and MITACS are now in place. The CRM is Information Technology and Complex Systems) an extraordinary vehicle for the promotion of by the Canadian Networks of Centres of mathematics in all its protean guises, and indeed Excellence program. The proposal comprises it has been performing these many functions about 21 projects, of which 5 are centred in with great effectiveness. Montreal. They are divided into five sectors: biomedical, trading and finance, information Last year was no exception. Let me begin by technology, commercial and manufacturing. The mentioning the core of our scientific programme, MITACS initiative will bring about a major the theme year, which last year focused on realignment of the discipline's dynamics in the number theory and arithmetic geometry. The country, and in particular its relationship with scientific programme committee, under the other fields. inspired leadership of Ram Murty, gave us a year which I think is a model for those to come, Meanwhile, in Montreal, the Network for combining scientific activities and training in a Computation and Mathematical Modelling remarkable way. The year began with a bang in (ncm2) finalised its agreement with Bell Canada Banff, with a Summer School on the Arithmetic to create the Laboratoire Universitaire Bell and Geometry of Algebraic cycles, which was a (LUB). The agreement provides money for resounding success attended by 110 participants. research projects as well as an endowment fund, The year then continued in earnest in Montreal, and is worth a total of $12M. The LUB launched with a relatively modest number of workshops its first series of research projects, of which five being compelemented by a stunningly effective are located at the CRM, covering areas such as series of short courses on focused topics given cryptography, imaging, data mining and quality by experts in the field. The attendance was of service in networks. The infrastructure for the considerable, in particular because the LUB will be financed by an envelope of funds organisers had assembled for the duration of the from Bell, several computer companies, the year a collection of a dozen postdoctoral fellows Quebec government and the Canadian and twenty graduate students in the area, Foundation for Innovation: this will allow the complementing the substantial Montreal construction of two laboratories. contingent with visiting students from all over the country. This does not include participants All in all, then, a busy year. The current year, who attended only some of the activities; in all, as well as the ones to follow, will also be busy over 300 attended the activities of the year. In and replete with major challenges. The first one, assembling this contingent, the CRM was greatly of course, is to run all these networks and assisted by the Centre Interuniversitaire de laboratories: the grant is only the beginning, and Calcul Algébrique (CICMA). they must then be made to thrive, and to develop. A second is to expand and improve the The general programme was quite full, with CRM's links with its various partners, in twelve conferences being funded. The particular the neighbouring universities. There 2 Annual Report 1998-1999 CRM A W O R D F R O M T H E D I R E C T O R are many mutual gains through these This is intimately tied to what I think is the associations, I believe, in particular in most important challenge for the CRM. The
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