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Press release
The CNRS strengthens Franco-Russian cooperation in the field of pure and applied mathematics research | |||
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Paris, March 12, 2002 |
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emergence of new technologies and the acquisition of knowledge in the fields
of communications networks and information systems has led the CNRS, the
Independent University of Moscow (IUM), and the Russian Academy of Sciences
(RAS) to develop and intensify scientific cooperation on interdisciplinary
topics involving basic mathematics research and its interactions with theoretical
physics, computer science, and economics. On March 11 and 12, in Moscow,
Geneviève Berger, Director General of the CNRS, signed three cooperation
agreements with Yulij Ilyashenko, President of the IUM, and Gennady Mesiatz,
Vice President of the RAS. The first two agreements concern the creation
of a Franco-Russian International Mathematics Laboratory (LIFR-MI2P) and
a twinning arrangement in mathematics and computer science. The third renews
the agreement on exchanges between the CNRS and the RAS. The fruitful science and technology cooperation initiated in 1969 by the CNRS and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, which was strengthened in 1992 with the agreement entered into by the governments of the French Republic and the Russian Federation, has given Russian researchers the opportunity to work in continuous contact with certain of their French counterparts, and has offered French researchers the opportunity to benefit from the richness of the Russian school of mathematics. This cooperation also led to the creation of the first joint Franco-Russian international research laboratory on March 11, 2002, for a period of four years. The "Laboratoire international franco-russe de mathématiques et interactions en informatique et en physique théorique" (Franco-Russian International Laboratory of Mathematics and Interactions with Computer Science and Theoretical Physics, known as LIFR-MI2P) has been placed under the joint responsibility of the Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics (SPM in French) and the Department of Communication and Information Science and Technology (STIC in French) of the CNRS and the Independent University of Moscow (IUM) , which allocate staff and resources to the laboratory. On the Russian side, the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Information Transmission Problems (IITP), and the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute (CEMI) are all associated with this new laboratory. The purpose of LIFR-MI2P, located in Moscow, is to carry out joint research in mathematics, computer science, and theoretical physics, under the responsibility of its director, Alexei Sossinski. In more precise terms, the areas of research investigated in the laboratory will include algorithmics, non-linear analysis, combinatorics, algebraic geometry and number theory, geometry and representation of groups, quantum groups, imaging, logic, integrable models and conformal theory, mathematical physics, dynamic systems, telecommunications, field theory, code theory, chord theory, and topology. The research results from LIFR-MI2P will be monitored regularly by its scientific board. CNRS Press
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