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William Langford
Applied Mathematics Quarterly (3:2, 1995). Anna Lawniczak
(Guelph) organized a workshop on Pattern Formation and
Lattice Gas Automata (June 8–12, 1993). It was jointly funded
by NATO and the proceedings were published by NATO.
In summary, by the end of the 1992–93 Program in
Dynamical Systems and Bifurcation Theory, the Fields
Institute was successfully launched as a premier centre for
research in the mathematical sciences.
Many research
collaborations between participants were initiated at the
Institute. Participants praised both the scientific and the
social activities of the program. Graduate students from local
universities learned about cutting-edge research, often from
the creators of that research. Since that time, the Fields
institute has expanded its non-program, general scientific
activities; for example, in mathematics education at all levels,
in industrial outreach, and in public lectures.
The seemingly impossible dream that we had in 1990 not
only has been realized, but also greatly exceeded. It is hard
now to imagine Canadian mathematics without the Fields
Institute.