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Press releases by the Fields Institute

2021


Feb 21	Dr. Catherine Marks Krpan wins the 2021 Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award
Feb 4	Anand Pillay receives inaugural Simons Distinguished Visitor appointment
Feb 2	2021 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize awarded to Andrew Granville

2020

Jun 15	Professor Deirdre Haskell is selected as Deputy Director of the Fields Institute
Mar 25	Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19: CIHR awards $666,667 to the Fields Institute in partnership with AARMS, CRM and PIMS
Feb 21	Dr. Christine Suurtamm Wins the 2020 Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award
Jan 27	Canadian-American mathematician Louis Nirenberg, dies at 94

2019

Sep 12	2020 CRM-Fields-PIMS prize is awarded to Catherine Sulem
Jul 5	Professor Luis Seco is appointed as Director of Fields CQAM
Jul 1	Fields 2019-2020 Scientific Advisory Panel
Jul 1	Fields 2019-2020 Board of Directors
Jun 27	National Research Council of Canada partners with the Fields Institute
May 27	Professor Tom Salisbury is selected as Interim Deputy Director of the Fields Institute
May 10	Professor Kumar Murty is selected as the next Director of the Fields Institute
Apr 10	The Fields Institute forges partnerships with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the Fondation mathématique Jacques-Hadamard
Mar 29	Nat Banting Wins the 2019 Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award
Feb 27	Fields Institute Announces Postdoctoral Fellowship Winner Taboka Prince Chalebgwa
Feb 11	Professor Jeremy Quastel to receive the 2019 CMS Jeffery-Williams Prize
Jan 18	Remembering Walter Craig, former Fields Institute Director
Jan 11	Sir Michael Atiyah, celebrated Mathematician dies at the age of 89

2018

Dec 6	Fields Institute Welcomes New Federal Funding Announcement
Nov 20	Financial Tech Company Headed by Fields Fellow Secures $9M Investment
Aug 3	The Fields Institute Congratulates 2018 Fields Medal Winners
June 5	Announcing the winner of the Margaret Sinclair Award
May 14	The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2018
April 10	Ontario Invests $4 Million In Fields Institute’s New Centre For Quantitative Analysis and Modelling

2017

Dec 11	Jeremy Quastel Wins the 2018 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize
Nov 21	The Fields Institute and Ryerson DMZ Collaboration Set to Take Mathematical Startups to the Next Level
Sept 12	Matheus Grasselli takes over as Director of the Fields Centre for Financial Industries
July 31	Fields and Perimeter Support the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Next Einstein Initiative
July 25	The Fields Institute Turns Twenty-Five: The Book
May 15	Ryerson Becomes Fields’ Ninth Principal Sponsoring University
Apr 27	2017 Fields Institute Fellows
Apr 24	Zhangxing (John) Chen Wins the 2017 CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize
Apr 20	Brian Forrest Wins the 2017 Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award
Apr 19	Students Make Math Accessible in Fields Inaugural Thesis Competition
Jan 9	2017 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Winner: Henri Darmon
Jan 4	Stephen E. Fienberg, 1942-2016

2016

Nov 24	Fields to Host KNAER Mathematics Knowledge Network
Sep 20	A Message from Canada's Mathematical Sciences Institutes for Canada's Fundamental Science Review
Sep 8	The Fields Institute receives Major Gift from the world’s leading scientific and medical publisher Elsevier Ltd.
July 15	Dr. Pawel Pralat has been named the new Assistant Director of Industry Liaison
July 6	The Fields Institute Launches the Centre for Financial Industries
June 20	Fields Partners with Mitacs to Fund Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellows
May 20	Dr. Tom Salisbury has been named the new Associate Director of Industry Liaison of the Fields Institute
Apr 8	2016 CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize Announced
Feb 21	Dr. Jean-Marie De Koninck wins 2016 Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award
Feb 2	Position Opening: Associate Director of Industry Liaison
Jan 13	William Craig Professor Emeritus, University of California Berkeley 1918-2016

2015

Dec 17	Dr. Huaxiong Huang has been named the new Deputy Director of the Fields Institute
Dec 7	The winner of the 2016 CRM - Fields - PIMS Prize is Professor Daniel Wise
Sep 10	Call for nominations and applications for the position of Deputy Director of the Fields Institute
June 18	Maplesoft and the Fields Institute Partnership
May 15	The Fields Institute announces Ian Hambleton as new Director
Mar 30	2015 CAIMS-Fields Industrial Mathematics Prize
Feb 21	Ron Lancaster named as recipient of the 2015 Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award

2014

Dec 16	The winner of the 2015 CRM - Fields - PIMS Prize is Professor Kai Behrend
Dec 4	Passing of Jim Stewart
Oct 22	Media Availability Press Release: Dr. Saari Mathematics of Voting
Oct 15	Dr. Huaxiong Huang named as new Associate Director for Industry Liaison
Aug 13	Winners announced at the 2014 ICM in Seoul for this year’s Fields Medals
Aug 11	NSERC announces CTRMS funding for three top-tier Canadian Institutions
Apr 15	Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences Receives NSF Funding
Feb 21	Ann Kajander recipient of the 2014 Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award

2013

Dec 3	Announcement and citation for the CRM - Fields - PIMS Prize 2014: Prof. Niky Kamran
Oct 7	Canadian Book Launch and Q & A – Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
Sep 20	Toronto Symposium to Honour First Israeli Winner of Prestigious Fields Medal
Sep 16	QWeMA Group Acquired by CANNEX
Aug 27	Walter Craig Appointed Next Director of the Fields Institute
Jul 30	Prestigious Quantum Mechanics Prize Awarded to Pioneering Physicists
Jul 3	The Fields Institute Announces 2013 Annual General Meeting Highlights
Jun 19	Jane Wang (Cornell University) to give public lecture on Movement, Music, and Mathematics of Falling Paper and Insect Flight
Jun 6	Toronto students place first in their division at U.S. math competition
Apr 10	Canadian economist Darrell Duffie to talk about new architecture of our financial system
Feb 21	Kathryn M. Kubota-Zarivnij first recipient of the Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award
Jan 28	European Central Bank's Ulrich Bindseil to give Short Course on Monetary Policy Implementation at the Fields Institute

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