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CONTENTS III xix EVENTS AND GROWTH 17 A Dream Program Becomes a Reality William Langford 18 Thematic Institutes: The Particle Accelerators of Mathematics Tom Salisbury 93 99 19 Four Happy Years and the Birth of the Fields Medal Symposium Ed Bierstone 107 20 Encountering Mathematics and a Mathematics Institute Sheila Embleton 115 21 An Anecdote Victor P. Snaith 121 22 Creating a Field over Two Decades Moshe A. Milevsky 125 23 A Place for Inspiration Mary Thompson 129 24 Running a Program Matt Valeriote 133 25 The Centre for Mathematical Medicine Sivabal Sivaloganathan 135 26 Financial Mathematics Ron Dembo 139