The New Scientific Director of the Banff International Research Station

[Amanda Kanuka]

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A message from:
The Board of Directors, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, 
Canada and The Board of Trustees, Mathematical Science Research Institute, 
Berkeley, USA
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On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Pacific Institute for the 
Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), and of the Board of Trustees, Mathematical Science 
Research Institute (MSRI),  we are happy to announce the appointment of * Dr. 
Nassif Ghoussoub as Scientific Director of the Banff International Research 
Station (BIRS) for a period of 3 years starting January 1, 2004.*
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*Dr. Ghoussoub* is presently Professor of Mathematics and "Distinguished 
University Scholar" at the University of British Columbia.  He is the 
founding Director of PIMS (1996-2003), a co-founder of MITACS (Network 
of Centers of Excellence in Mathematics of Information Technology & 
Complex Systems) and a member of its Board of Directors for the period 
1998-2003. He is also a co-founder of BIRS and was Chair of its 
executive committee for the period 2000-2003.

Dr. Ghoussoub was the recipient of the Coxeter-James prize in 1990, of a 
Killam senior fellowship in 1992 and has been a fellow of the Royal 
Society of Canada since 1993. He was chair of NSERC's grant selection 
committee for mathematics in 1995-1996 and vice-president of the 
Canadian Mathematical Society from 1994 to 1996. He was Editor-in-Chief 
of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics from 1993 to 2002 and is 
currently on the editorial board of various international journals. His 
present research interests are in non-linear analysis and partial 
differential equations.

As Scientific Director of BIRS, Dr Ghoussoub will be responsible for the 
overall functioning of the scientific and intellectual activities of the 
Station, and will act as an ambassador and as its public representative. 
He will chair its Scientific Advisory Board and its steering committee 
and  will make sure that all scientific activities of the Station are 
run at the standards and with the integrity expected by its sponsoring 
foundations and granting councils.

Ivar Ekeland

David Eisenbud




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