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Medal Symposium has been a great boost to the enthusiasm
for mathematics in Canada.
The 120-cell Mobile that hangs in the Fields Institute building,
created by Marc Pelletier in appreciation of Professor Donald
Coxeter.
The report on the NSERC Long Range Plan for
the Mathematical and Statistical Sciences for 2014–19
recommended thinking of the three mathematical sciences
institutes (Fields, CRM, and PIMS) as the leading nodes of a
pan-Canadian network of institutes, which would also include
BIRS (Banff International Research Station for Mathematical
Innovation and Discovery), AARMS (the Atlantic Association
for Research in the Mathematical Sciences) and CANSSI
(the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute), formed in 2012.
The period since then has seen a growth in collaboration
and activity across the country, a strengthening of the
influence of the institutes at home, and a stronger presence