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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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        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:
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          recherches math&eacute;matiques</a>&nbsp;(CRM), based at the Universit&eacute; de
        Montr&eacute;al ($1.15&nbsp;million annually for five years);</li>
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        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:
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          Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences</a>&nbsp;based at
        the University of Toronto ($1.2&nbsp;million annually for five
        years); and</li>
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        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&nbsp;</a>(PIMS), a
        collaboration of nine&nbsp;major universities in Alberta, British
        Columbia, Saskatchewan and Washington State ($1.15&nbsp;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>&nbsp;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&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;CRM, Fields, and PIMS &#8211;
      with $1.5&nbsp;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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