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class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Results of Collaborative and
Thematic Resources Support in Mathematics and Statistics Program
Competition</font></h1>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; ">The Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council of Canada is pleased to announce
the results of its first Collaborative and Thematic Resources
Support in Mathematics and Statistics (CTRMS) Program competition.
The three recipients are:</p>
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<li class="first-child" style="padding-top: 2px; background-image:
url(http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/_gui/bullet_square.gif);
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padding-left: 1em; background-position: 0px 9px;
background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">*the <a
href="http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/" rel="external"
target="_blank" title="This link opens in a new window"
style="text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right:
0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Centre de
recherches mathématiques</a> (CRM), based at the Université de
Montréal ($1.15 million annually for five years);</li>
<li style="padding-top: 2px; background-image:
url(http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/_gui/bullet_square.gif);
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padding-left: 1em; background-position: 0px 9px;
background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">*the <a
href="http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/" rel="external"
target="_blank" title="This link opens in a new window"
style="text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right:
0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Fields
Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences</a> based at
the University of Toronto ($1.2 million annually for five
years); and</li>
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url(http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/_gui/bullet_square.gif);
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padding-left: 1em; background-position: 0px 9px;
background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">*the <a
href="http://www.pims.math.ca/" rel="external" target="_blank"
title="This link opens in a new window"
style="text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right:
0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Pacific
Institute for the Mathematical Sciences </a>(PIMS), a
collaboration of nine major universities in Alberta, British
Columbia, Saskatchewan and Washington State ($1.15 million
annually for five years).</li>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; ">Together, the three
institutes will provide support from their CTRMS awards of
$405,000 per year to the newly formed <a
href="http://www.ssc.ca/en/canssi" rel="external"
target="_blank" title="This link opens in a new window"
style="text-decoration: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-right:
0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Canadian
Statistical Sciences Institute</a> and will also continue to
provide support for the Atlantic Association for Research in the
Mathematical Sciences through their CTRMS awards.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; ">In addition, NSERC
has provided the three institutes above – CRM, Fields, and PIMS –
with $1.5 million over three years to set up an Institute
Innovation Platform that will foster partnerships between
mathematics and statistics researchers and non-academic partners
in the public and private sectors.<br>
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The full announcement is available at<br>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/ProgramNewsDetails-NouvellesDesProgrammesDetails_eng.asp?ID=473">http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/ProgramNewsDetails-NouvellesDesProgrammesDetails_eng.asp?ID=473</a><br>
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