Fields Institute

The Fields Institute is an international research center at the University of Toronto in the area of ​​mathematics.

The Institute was named after the Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields, founder of the Fields Medal. The institute was founded in 1992 and was initially at the University of Waterloo, before it was relocated to Toronto in 1995.

As an international center for mathematics meet in regular the best mathematicians of Canada as well as from other countries in the Institute. The Institute supports the regular exchange between mathematicians and researchers from other fields such as statistics, computer sciences, engineering, physics, biology, medicine, economics and finance, and telecommunications technology and IT.

It will be held by professors from the respective departments monthly lectures, added still other researchers from private research institutes.

The Institute has its own building at the University of Toronto. It has a capacity for up to 66 researchers and allows direct access to the mathematical library of the University.

The Fields Institute Monographs ( FIM) comprises the research activity. The research results are published by the American Mathematical Society.

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences in Vancouver and the CRM in Montreal they give the CRM -Fields - PIMS Prize.

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