These web pages will record the evolving relationships between the Mathematical
Community and NSERC.
Welcome to
Mathematics and
NSERC
- NSERC:
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Web server
- Gopher server
Last updated May 13, 1997
-
The National Review of the Canadian Mathematical Community
(May 13, 1997)
- The final report submitted to CMATH-L by Richard Kane
- Site Visit Report for a Proposal to NSERC ( February 02, 1997)
- for a National Network for Collaboration in the Mathematical Sciences
- Position Paper from the Mathematics Advisory Committee (October 4, 1996)
- Report on Mathematical Community meeting in Toronto (September 7, 1996)
- Review of Canadian Mathematics:
- Message from Ricard Kane (August 1996, September 7 Meeting)
- Message from Richard Kane (August 1996, further details)
- Note from Richard Kane (May 1996, data for the self study document)
- Message from Richard Kane ( March 1996, mandate)
- Mathematics-NSERC Advisory group for 1996-97 (June 96)
- The final report submitted to CMATH-L by Richard Kane
In Main Documents you will find a full record of the ongoing negotiations between NSERC and the Mathematics Community. Meetings that will be scheduled to deal with NSERC-related issues will be announced here. A shorter Executive Version suitable for showing to Deans, other Scientists and the like is also available. Both will be updated as events warrant.
Relatively recent documents are:
- a Status Report (July 4, 1995),
- a reply from Nigel Lloyd of NSERC (July 4, 1995),
-
a call for the
establishment of a National Network for Research in the Mathematical
Sciences
- from N. Ghoussoub (September 5, 1995)
- a more recent (December 13, 1995) letter of intent
- report of the meeting of the Mathematics-NSERC Liaison committee (August 14, 1995).
- open letters from ex-GSC members from UBC (Nov. 22, 1994),
- and GSC member Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann (October 10, 1995),
- the reply from Nigel Lloyd of NSERC to Dr. Tomczak-Jaegerman (October 12, 1995)
- NSERC Council's October 26th announcements of programme modifications Council Modifies Program,
- an open letter to NSERC from the Mathematics Liaison Committee,
- the statistics for NSERC funding for the 1995 competition,
- a report on a meeting with the Reform Party by the Confederation of Biological Scienctists,
- scanned images of response from Preston Manning to Peter Fillmore (June 13th, 1995)
- Page 1 (76K GIF)
- Page 2 (82K GIF)
- Page 3 (24K GIF),
- from N. Ghoussoub (September 5, 1995)
The latest documents are:
- Position Paper from the Mathematics Advisory Committee (October 4, 1996)
- Report on the September 7th Mathematical Community meeting in Toronto (September 7, 1996)
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messages and notes from Richard Kane regarding Review of Canadian
Mathematics:
- August 1996, September 7 meeting
- August 1996, further details
- May 1996, data for the self study document
- March 1996, mandate Mathematics-NSERC Advisory group for 1996-97 (June 96)
- Letter of intent: A National Network for Research in the Mathematical Sciences
- Statistics for NSERC funding for the 1995 competition.
- a report of the meeting of the Mathematics-NSERC Liaison committee (January 5, 1996)
- August 1996, September 7 meeting
We also include How to Access these Files Electronically which can be given to interested parties.
The Associated Documents include the report made by the 1994-95 Mathematics Grant Selection Committees to the Allocations Committee of NSERC, and other useful supporting documentation. If you know of something it would be useful to add, please let us know.
Other NSERC/Academic Issues includes current articles such as The Future of Mathematics in Canada -- Fifty Years Later by J. Borwein and K. Davidson, Tenure and Research , by R. Moody and the Underground Guide to NSERC by the Mathematics NSERC Grant Selection Committee.
Moving further a field General Academic Issues contains things like Integrity in Scholarship: A Report on Concordia University (April 1994) NSERC's findings upon investigating Concordia (July 8) and clarification on Swamy, Sankar and Sankar (July 13) and Camel's Electronic Publishing Resources (November 23, 1993) , both articles and links to Journals. Finally, we are collecting a list of related electronic servers, both from Research Agencies and from Government Departments.
In addition we will be collecting reactions from government, media, the mathematics community and other diverse sources.
Latex documents are available as html/latex/postscript/dvi while other flavours of tex are available as tex/postscript/dvi. The html document can be read online as can the plain "tex" - though less pleasantly. All can be down-loaded. Some scanned documents are also available as images.
Summary of available documents:
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Main Documents
- Report of the meeting of the Mathematics-NSERC Liaison committee (January 5, 1996).
- Report from the Liaison Committee(June 5, 95)
- Joint Advisory Committee-Liaison Committee: Membership and Activities (June 7, 95)
- Report of the meeting of the Mathematics-NSERC Liaison committee (August 14, 1995).
- Liaison Committee letter to NSERC (November 24, 1995)
Questions? Comments? How can this area be improved?