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CHAPTER 23
A Place for Inspiration
Mary Thompson
“The Fields Institute is fundamentally a place where people go to
be inspired by the best minds and stimulated by an environment
rich in ideas and experience.”
I well remember the formation of the Fields Institute because I
was Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at the
University of Waterloo at the time it was first being talked
about, and Jerry Marsden was an old friend and classmate
from undergraduate years at the University of Toronto. I
remember thinking that the