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Exciting News from BIRS

Dear colleagues and friends of BIRS all over the world,

It gives me a great pleasure to announce that BIRS is moving to a new home at the Banff Centre. The TransCanada Pipelines Pavilion (see photos below) will be totally dedicated to BIRS scientific activities.

The new building will not only provide lecture room facilities, Lab and office space, for those participating in BIRS activities, but will also enable BIRS to provide live streaming of its lectures around the world. The new facility will feature a state-of-the-art automated video-recording environment. Once operational, BIRS participating scientists will have the ability to record lectures continuously, to broadcast them live on the Internet, and to allow remote parties to participate in meetings using integrated teleconferencing technologies.

We cannot thank enough Mary Hofstetter, President and CEO of The Banff Centre and its Board of Directors for dedicating this space to the world's mathematical science community.

BIRS should be able to move soon to the new building, but we are hoping to have an official inauguration ceremony next September. The living quarters will remain at Corbett Hall.

Best regards,

Nassif

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Un nouveau domicile pour BIRS

Chers collègues, chers amis de BIRS du monde entier,

Il m’est un grand plaisir de pouvoir vous annoncer que BIRS aura bientôt un nouveau domicile au sein du Centre Banff. Le «TransCanada Pipeline Pavillion» (veuillez vous référer aux photos ci-dessus) sera entièrement dédié aux activités scientifiques de BIRS.

Le nouvel immeuble ne fournira non seulement des amphithéâtres et salles de classe, des laboratoires, et des bureaux aux participants aux activités de BIRS, mais permettra aussi la diffusion en continu de ses conférences à travers le monde. Ce nouveau domicile sera aussi équipé des technologies d’enregistrement audio-vidéo les plus récentes. Une fois l’équipement en service, les scientifiques participants aux activités de BIRS pourront enregistrer leurs présentations en continu et les diffuser en-directe sur l’Internet. Des nouvelles technologies de visioconférence intégrées permettront aussi aux collègues à distance de participer à des réunions.

Nous ne pourrions assez remercier Mary Hoffstetter, Présidente et PDG du Centre Banff et son conseil d’administration, pour avoir dédié cet espace à la communauté internationale des sciences mathématiques.

BIRS devrait bientôt pouvoir déménager au nouvel immeuble, mais nous prévoyons organiser une cérémonie officielle d’inauguration ayant lieu en septembre. L’hébergement des scientifiques de BIRS demeurera à Corbett Hall.

Veuillez agréer, messieurs, mesdames, mes sincères salutations,

Nassif

Photos and videos from the special event on September 25th, 2010: A Celebration of Research Collaboration in North America with a Public Lecture by Dr. Rita Colwell have been published here.

CBC news
"Banff math centre gets $10M from NAFTA partners"
Last Updated: Monday, September 27, 2010 | 10:07 AM ET   The Canadian Press
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/09/27/banff-math-centre.html

CTV news  Canada
"Alberta math centre gets $10 million in funding"
Monday Sept. 27, 2010 by The Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100927/math-centre-funding-100927/

CTV Edmonton
"Alberta math centre gets $10 million in funding"
http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100927/math-centre-funding-100927/20100927?hub=EdmontonHome


Winnipeg Free Press : Science & Technology
"North American governments kick in over $10 million for math centre in Banff"
Posted: 26/09/2010 7:02 PM  by The Canadian Press
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/sci_tech/north-american-governments-kick-in-over-10-million-for-math-centre-in-banff-103829423.html

Metro
"Math facility in Banff gets over $10 million"
Published: Septembe r 26, 2010 7:56 p.m.
http://www.metronews.ca/vancouver/life/article/645774--math-facility-in-banff-gets-over-10-million

USA Today
"North American governments kick in over $10 million for math centre in Banff"
http://content.usatoday.com/topics/article/Organizations/Government+Bodies/National+Science+Foundation/0aPgaClaQA5Uc/1

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"Math money coming to Banff"
9/27/2010 4:28am
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Times of India
"Alberta math centre gets $10 million in funding"
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"Banff math centre gets $10M from NAFTA partners"
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"Banff math centre gets $10M from NAFTA partners"
Monday, September 27, 2010 - 08:14 in Mathematics & Economics
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"Banff math centre gets $10M from NAFTA partners"
September 27, 2010
http://enterprisepost.com/tech/it/banff-math-centre-gets-10m-from-nafta-partners.html

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"Math facility in Banff gets over $10 million"
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"Math facility in Banff gets over $10 million"
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Zmarter, Open Media Guide
"Alberta math centre gets $10 million in funding"
CTV.ca
http://zmarter.com/economy-finances/alberta-math-centre-gets-$10-million-in-funding-ctv.ca.html


The University of British Columbia
"North American governments kick in over $10 million for math centre in Banff"
Sep. 27, 2010
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2010/09/27/north-american-governments-kick-in-over-10-million-for-math-centre-in-banff/

Fort Frances Times Online
"Math centre lands extended funding"
Monday, 27 September 2010 - 1:03pm
http://www.fftimes.com/node/236999

Road Runner
"Alberta math centre gets $10 million in funding"
Published - Sep 27 2010 10:46 AM
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"Banff math centre gets $10M from NAFTA partners"
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"Alberta math centre gets $10 million in funding"
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"Math money coming to Banff"
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The Banff Centre: Communications
The Banff Centre in the news
September 26, 2010
"North American governments kick in over $10 million for math centre in Banff"
http://www.banffcentre.info/blogs/communications/2010/09/26/north-american-governments-kick-in-over-10-million-for-math-centre-in-banff/

Lee Richardson, M.P. Calgary Centre
"FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROVIDES FUNDING FOR BANFF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH STATION"
September 25, 2010
http://www.leerichardson.ca/EN/3774/118747

Banff, Alberta -- Mathematics is the core science of our technologically driven, global society. The Banff International Research Station (BIRS), at the renowned Banff Centre, provides a forum for the advancement of and exchange of knowledge in mathematics.

BIRS is a collaboration of Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the United States’ National Science Foundation (NSF), and Mexico’s Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT). “The Government of Canada is investing in science and technology to create jobs, strengthen the economy and improve the quality of life of Canadians”, said MP Blake Richards, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology. “Our $3.25 million investment in BIRS, through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) will help develop, attract and retain the world’s best researchers here in Canada.”

NSERC’s contribution is an investment made over five years that goes towards supporting BIRS and its operation, which in turn facilitates international collaborations and ensures that world-class mathematical research continues to be conducted in Canada. “Since its inception in 2003, BIRS has shown vision and leadership in creating an international meeting point for mathematical discovery and innovation, “says Suzanne Fortier, President of NSERC. “On this day of celebration, NSERC salutes the many accomplishments of BIRS.”

“International collaboration in the sciences is a vital way we’re building the knowledge-based next generation economy in Alberta,” said the Honourable Doug Horner, Deputy Premier and Minister of Alberta Advanced Education and Technology. “Having leaders in this foundational science working here positions Alberta, and Canada, as a focal point for collaborative solutions to global challenges.”

Building on previous Alberta support for BIRS, Alberta Advanced Education and Technology will provide $3.4 million over five years (2011 - 2015) to facilitate BIRS’ future operational plans and activities. The BIRS initiative promises to continue being a significant factor in building excellence in Alberta’s research communities and beyond. The new funding support will enable BIRS to provide the infrastructure for an environment that optimizes creative interaction and the exchange of ideas, knowledge and methods within a broad program covering the mathematical, statistical and computational sciences, as well as their applications in science, technology and society.

"Mathematical sciences are a key to innovation and for advancing the frontiers of scientific discovery,” said Dr. Cora Marrett, acting director of the US National Science Foundation, which is contributing $3.68 million to BIRS. “NSF-supported math sciences institutes, such as BIRS, provide ideal settings for synergistic activities within mathematical, statistical and computational sciences, and across various other disciplines. This synergy is important to solving important societal problems related to environment, health, security and sustainability. Beyond that, fostering collaborations among industry, government and academic institutions, without borders, will lead to advances in basic science."

“BIRS represents the only serious joint educational and scientific research program in the NAFTA space,” said Dr. José Antonio de la Peña, Deputy Director for Science, CONACyT. “It has given an international visibility to both Canadian and Mexican mathematical sciences as no other project has ever done”.

This is a tremendous success for a remarkable and groundbreaking North American collaboration in support of the world's mathematical sciences and their manifestations in science, technology, and society", says BIRS Scientific Director Nassif Ghoussoub. “This unprecedented multinational funding validates the importance, and vigor of the research conducted at BIRS”.

BIRS’ mandate is to embrace all aspects, both theoretical and applied, of the mathematical, computational and statistical sciences including fundamental challenges of pure and applied mathematics in computing science, statistics, and mathematical physics, financial and industrial mathematics, as well as the mathematics of information technology, and the life sciences. BIRS opened its doors to the world scientific community in March 2003. Since then, over 14,000 researchers from 2000 institutions in 70 countries have conducted collaborative research at BIRS. For more information go to http://www.birs.ca/

Media inquiries may be directed to: Dr. Nassif Ghoussoub, BIRS Scientific Director, Professor at the University of British Columbia

604-822-1649 email: birs-director@birs.ca

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