[cmath] A. Bandrauk, member of the CRM, recipient of the NSERC Polanyi Award

[CRM]

    Andre Bandrauk, holder of the Canada Research Chair in  
Computational Chemistry at Universite de Sherbrooke and a long-time  
member of the CRM, received the John-C.-Polanyi Award from NSERC,  
jointly with Paul Corkum from NRC for their exceptional contributions  
in the foundation of the new attosecond science on imaging and  
control of electrons at molecular scale. This award, named after the  
Canadian Nobel Prize winner in 1986,  coincides with the project  
launched last year by the CRM  to set up a Thematic semester on  
Imaging in Fall 2009, part of which will explore the mathematical  
challenges of Molecular imaging at the attosecond scale, organized by  
A. Bandrauk and M. Ivanov, director of the theoretical group at the  
Steacie Institute (NRC, Ottawa).

     See the NSERC link, updated this month, March 2008, that  
describes the impressive works of these two researchers

http://www.crsng.gc.ca/award_e.asp?nav=polanyi&lbi=current

    Let us mention that another close member of the CRM, Gilles  
Brassard from Universite de Montreal, was one of the three finalists,  
for the second time, for the NSERC Herzberg Medal, awarded this year  
to ... John C. Polanyi.


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