[cmath] Funding for the Banff International Research Station (BIRS)

[BIRS Director]

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that the Banff International Research Station  
(BIRS) was successful in its effort to renew and secure the support of  
the governments of Alberta, Canada, the US and Mexico, for the period  
2011-2015.

The combined grants totaling more than $12 million over 5 years will  
allow BIRS to continue to provide the infrastructure for an  
environment that optimizes creative interaction and the exchange of  
ideas, knowledge and methods within a broad program covering the  
mathematical, statistical and computational sciences, as well as their  
applications in science, technology and society.  The funding includes:

·      $3.68 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).
·      $3.45 million from the Alberta ministry of Advanced Education  
and Technology. (AAET)
·      $3.25 million from the Natural Science and Engineering Research  
Council of Canada (NSERC).
·      $250,000 from CONACYT, Mexico's National Science and Technology  
Council.
·      $400,000 from the "Mathematics of Information Technology and  
Complex Systems" (MITACS) network, an NCE in support of industrial  
mathematics.
·      $400,000 from the University of British Columbia, which hosts  
the headquarters of BIRS, and which in tandem with the University of  
Alberta and the University of Calgary, provides crucial support for  
the Station's administrative management.

We are extremely grateful to the dozens of scientists who supported  
BIRS during the joint site visit by the four granting foundations, and  
to the thousands of BIRS participants who sent us personal and  
compelling testimonials that helped make the case for BIRS.


Nassif Ghoussoub,
Director, Banff International Research Station
http://www.birs.ca/
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