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FIELDS NOTES 01 MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR 03 NEWS | The NRC-Fields Mathematical Sciences Collaboration Centre Launch 05 SPECIAL LECTURES & CALENDAR 07 FEATURED | The Fields CQAM Interdisciplinary Thematic Program 09  SPOTLIGHT | Maria Chudnovsky, 02 Keith Devlin, and Ivar Ekeland 10 FEATURED | 50 Years of Complexity Theory: Celebrating the Work of Stephen Cook 13 FEATURED | Workshop on New Trends in Variational Models 14 LIFE AT FIELDS 14 Scientific Computing Across Scales: Retrospective Workshops 16 50 Years of Set Theory in Toronto 09 10 17 Analytic Low-Dimensional Dynamics 17 5th Conference on Financial Econometrics 18 Statistics Graduate Research Day 19 5th Annual Financial Econometrics Conference 20 PROFILES | 2019 Fields Institute Fellows 24 FUNDING, FELLOWSHIPS, AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES 18 SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR V. Kumar Murty INTERIM DEPUTY DIRECTOR Tom Salisbury EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Esther Berzunza MANAGING EDITOR Kate Bangay COPY EDITOR Brynne Clark 20 The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences publishes FIELDS NOTES three times a year. CONNECT WITH US Questions? Comments? E-mail communications@fields.utoronto.ca @fieldsinstitute