Message from Richard Kane (rkane@fields.utoronto.ca)

September 7 Meeting

A meeting will take place at the Fields Institute on Saturday September 7 to discuss the math review and the next allocation process. Other topics might arise.

  1. Review of Mathematics Site visits will be taking place in five cities (Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver) during the period October 19-21. These are regional site visits and the intention is toinvolve mathematicians from many universities at each stop. The intention is to use the relevant mathematical institutes (AARMS, CRM, Fields, PIms) as the local organizers and/or hosts. I would emphasize that the research institutes are doing this as a service to the mathematical community. These site visits are not site visits to the research institutes. I have thought about site visits a bit and have also had one conversation with Bourguignon on the topic. It is not clear how to most efffectively organize these visits. Having one joint meeting of relevant parties to discuss the site visits seems the best way of proceeding.

  2. Allocation It was suggested that it would be useful to devote part of the day to the discussion of the next allocation process.

So the general gameplan is to talk site visits on Saturday morning and move on to other things in the afternoon. The following people are going to be invited:

regards, Richard Kane (rkane@fields.utoronto.ca)