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Canadian Mathematics Community Statement about NSERC Discovery Grants

2011-04-26 By nmlcadmin 233 Comments

The following public statement is endorsed by the signatories appearing beneath it.

The signatories include 35 Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada and 27 Canada Research Chairs.

Over the past decade Canada has enriched its world-class research community in the mathematical and statistical sciences through strategic recruitment by Universities aided by the Canada Research Chairs Program, and by the prospect of a supportive and relatively stable Canadian research funding environment. NSERC’s Discovery Grants program plays a continuing vital role as these scientists advance their research programs and train the next generation of innovators.

However, recent changes to the Discovery Grants Program threaten this investment in mathematical and statistical talent, and could precipitate a reversal of all the gains that Canada made in the last decade. We are therefore calling on the Minister of Industry and on NSERC’s President to:

  • Rebuild confidence in the merit-based peer review system for NSERC Discovery Grants funding research.
  • Reconfirm Canada’s long-term commitment to fund research in the mathematical and statistical sciences at internationally competitive levels.

The mathematical and statistical sciences community calls upon the NSERC leadership to proceed promptly with the following specific actions:

1. As stressed in the NSERC peer review manual, research grant review and subsequent funding decisions should be equitable and fair, considered from year to year and across Canada’s diverse university research environments. We therefore request that an equalizing bin-to-funding map should be applied to the anomalous 2011 results in mathematics and statistics in order to restore fairness compared with the 2009 and 2010 results. This requires a one-time-only investment and should be announced as soon as possible to signal Canada’s commitment to fairness and long-term investment in mathematical sciences.

2. NSERC should recognize that its investment in mathematical and statistical research is not at internationally competitive levels and make appropriate changes:

  • There is inadequate funding for a mathematical or statistical scientist in Canada to run a standard research program.
  • There is an inequity between research funding in the mathematical sciences (including computer sciences) and other NSERC supported disciplines. A scientist in Canada has an average Discovery grant that exceeds \$34K/year. A mathematical scientist has an average Discovery grant less than \$20K/year. (These grants are mostly used by all sciences in the same way, to fund the training of junior scholars.)
  • In pure mathematics, the Discovery Grant Program is the only research resource available, and pure mathematicians are less able to leverage their Discovery Grants to obtain other grants than scientists in other disciplines.

3. A large segment of the research community is losing confidence in the system for assigning grant awards presently used in NSERC’s Discovery Grants competition.

  • The peer review process, translating proposal evaluation into funding amounts, should be reconstructed to ensure fairness.
  • The scientific community should be intimately involved in choosing high caliber scientists to serve on evaluation and granting committees.
  • Scientists should be actively involved in setting the research investment strategy at every step from proposal evaluation through the assignment of dollar amounts on proposals, not just in the assignment of scientists into bins.
  • Research grants should be funded with amounts sufficient to carry out the proposed studies.

We therefore request an immediate review of the newly implemented review system by an independent international panel to consider its impact on Canadian mathematical sciences.

Finally, we call for a robust national strategy to stabilize the research infrastructure and investment necessary for basic research and scientific innovation so as to safeguard Canada’s past investment in recruiting talented scientists.

Signatories:

  1. Alejandro Adem, UBC, CRC
  2. Martial Agueh, Victoria
  3. Amir Akbary, Lethbridge
  4. Walter Allegretto, UAlberta
  5. S. Twareque Ali, Concordia
  6. Stephen Anco, Brock
  7. Razvan Anisca, Lakehead
  8. Richard Anstee, UBC
  9. Vestislav Apostolov, UQAM
  10. Tom Archibald, SFU
  11. Jim Arthur, Toronto, FRSC
  12. Tom Baird, Memorial
  13. Catharine Baker, Mount Allison
  14. Martin Barlow, UBC, FRSC, FRS
  15. Michael Barr, McGill
  16. Heinz Bauschke, UBC Okanagan, CRC
  17. Margaret Beattie, Mount Allison
  18. Kai Behrend, UBC
  19. Mike Bennett, UBC (member 2011 Evaluation Group)
  20. François Bergeron, UQAM, CRC
  21. Nantel Bergeron, York (member 2011 Evaluation Group)
  22. Ed Bierstone, Toronto and Fields Institute, FRSC
  23. Ilia Binder, Toronto
  24. Ted Bisztriczky, Calagry
  25. Tom Bloom, Toronto, FRSC
  26. George Bluman, UBC
  27. Richard Blute, Ottawa
  28. Hans Boden, McMaster
  29. Anthony Bonato, Ryerson
  30. Chris Bose, Victoria
  31. Christian Boudreau, Waterloo
  32. David Boyd, UBC, FRSC
  33. Steven Boyer, UQAM
  34. Fred Brauer, UBC
  35. Elena Braverman, Calgary
  36. Murray R. Bremner, Saskatchewan
  37. Berndt Brenken, Calgary
  38. Nils Bruin, SFU
  39. Carmen Bruni, UBC
  40. Thomas Brüstle, Sherbrooke (member 2011 Evaluation Group)
  41. Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, Toronto
  42. Ryan Budney, Victoria
  43. Almut Burchard, Toronto
  44. Sue Ann Campbell, Waterloo
  45. James B. Carrell, UBC
  46. Bill Casselman, UBC
  47. Duong Eui Chang, Waterloo
  48. Hugo Chapdelaine, Laval
  49. Albert Chau, UBC
  50. Cedric Chauvet, SFU
  51. Jingyi Chen, UBC
  52. Vladimir Chernousov, UAlberta, CRC
  53. Hugh Chipman, Acadia
  54. Stephen Choi, SFU
  55. Yemon Choi, Saskatchewan
  56. Tahir Choulli, UAlberta
  57. Dan Christensen, Western
  58. Gerald Cliff, UAlberta
  59. Bernard Colin, Sherbrooke
  60. James Colliander, Toronto
  61. Olivier Collin, UQAM (member 2011 Evaluation Group)
  62. Octav Cornea, U. Montreal (member 2011 Evaluation Group)
  63. Helene Cossette, Laval
  64. Walter Craig, McMaster, FRSC, CRC
  65. Bill Cunningham, Waterloo
  66. Clifton Cunningham, Calgary
  67. James Currie, Winnipeg
  68. Henri Darmon, McGill, FRSC
  69. Ken Davidson, Waterloo, FRSC
  70. Robert Dawson, St. Mary’s
  71. Jean-Marie De Konick, Laval
  72. Alex de Leon, Calgary
  73. Gerda de Vries, Alberta
  74. Andrew P. Dean, Lakehead
  75. Charmaine Dean, SFU
  76. Dejan Delic, Ryerson
  77. Florin Diacu, Victoria
  78. Charles Doran, UAlberta
  79. Alan Dow, UNCC (member 2011 Evaluation Group)
  80. Danny Dyer, Memorial
  81. Hermann Eberl, Guelph, CRC (member 2011 Evaluation Group)
  82. Charles Edmunds, MSVU
  83. Roderick Edwards, Victoria
  84. Ivar Ekeland, UBC, FRSC
  85. George Elliott, Toronto, FRSC,
  86. Heath Emerson, Victoria
  87. Mike Evans, Toronto
  88. Ilijas Farah, York
  89. Joel Feldman, UBC, FRSC
  90. Shui Feng, McMaster
  91. Sebastian Ferrando, Ryerson
  92. Razvan Fetecau, SFU
  93. Ailana Fraser, UBC
  94. Don Fraser, Toronto, FRSC
  95. John Friedlander, Toronto, FRSC
  96. Marlene Frigon, U. Montreal
  97. Richard Froese, UBC
  98. Ricardo Fukasawa, Waterloo
  99. Jose Garrido, Concordia
  100. Paul Gauthier, U. Montreal
  101. Jim Geelen, Waterloo, CRC
  102. Anthony V. Geramita, Queens
  103. Nassif Ghoussoub, UBC, FRSC
  104. Alison Gibbs, Toronto
  105. Thierry Giordano, Ottawa
  106. Michael Goldstein, Toronto
  107. Edit Gombay, UAlberta
  108. Edgar Goodaire, Memorial
  109. Pawel Gora, Concordia
  110. Eyal Goren, McGill (member 2011 Evaluation Group)
  111. Shonda Gosselin, Winnipeg & Regina
  112. Colin C. Graham, UBC
  113. Ian Graham, Toronto
  114. Andrew Granville, U. Montreal, CRC
  115. Justin Gray, SFU
  116. Priscilla Greenwood, UBC
  117. Marco Gualtieri, Toronto
  118. Pengfei Guan, McGill, FRSC, CRC
  119. Stephen Gustafson, UBC
  120. Lucien Haddad, Royal Military College
  121. Ian Hambleton, McMaster
  122. Megumi Harada, McMaster
  123. Nadia Hardy, Concordia
  124. Kathryn Hare, Waterloo
  125. Warren Hare, UBC Okanagan
  126. Bradd Hart, McMaster
  127. Deirdre Haskell, McMaster
  128. Wenqing He, Western
  129. Florian Herzig, IAS and Toronto
  130. Thomas Hillen, UAlberta
  131. Christophe Hohlweg, UQAM
  132. Monica Ilie, Lakehead
  133. Reinhard Illner, Victoria
  134. Adrian Iovita, Concordia, CRC
  135. Victor Ivrii, Toronto, FRSC
  136. David M. Jackson, Waterloo
  137. Ken Jackson, Toronto
  138. Sebastian Jaimungal, Toronto
  139. Dmitry Jakobson, McGill
  140. Jeannette Janssen, Dalhousie
  141. Lisa Jeffrey, Toronto, FRSC
  142. Robert Jerrard, Toronto
  143. Barry Jessup, Ottawa
  144. Tomasz Kaczynski, Sherbrooke
  145. Vadim Kaimanovich, Ottawa
  146. Niky Kamran, McGill, FRSC
  147. Spiro Karigiannis, Waterloo
  148. Yael Karshon, Toronto
  149. Lee Keener, UNBC
  150. Nicholas Kevlahan, McMaster
  151. Kostya Khanin, Toronto
  152. Askold Khovanskii, Toronto
  153. Omar Kihel, Brock
  154. Young-Heon Kim, UBC
  155. Hershy Kisilevsky, Concordia
  156. Robert Klinzmann, UBC
  157. Jochen Koenemann, Waterloo
  158. Manfred Kolster, McMaster
  159. Dmitry Korotkin, Concordia
  160. Michael Kozdron, Regina
  161. David Kribs, Guelph
  162. Lilia Krivodonova, Waterloo
  163. Mary-Catherine Kropinski, SFU
  164. Steve Kudla, Toronto, CRC
  165. Wentang Kuo, Waterloo
  166. Rachel Kuske, UBC, CRC
  167. Jochen Kuttler, Alberta
  168. Marcelo Laca, Victoria
  169. Claude Laflamme, Calgary
  170. Matilde Lalín, U. Montreal
  171. Francois Lalonde, U. Montreal, FRSC, CRC
  172. Kevin Lamb, Waterloo
  173. Michael Lamoureux, Calgary
  174. William Langford, Guelph
  175. Anthony Lau, Alberta (also representing Canadian Mathematical Society)
  176. Michael Lau, Laval
  177. Jerry Lawless, Waterloo, FRSC
  178. Victor LeBlanc, Ottawa
  179. Jerome Lefebvre, UBC
  180. Chistiane Lemieux, Waterloo
  181. Ghislain Léveillé, Laval
  182. Claude Levesque, Laval
  183. Andrew D. Lewis, Queens
  184. Mark Lewis, UAlberta, CRC
  185. Sheldon Lin, Toronto (member 2011 Evaluation Group)
  186. Yu-Ru Liu, Waterloo
  187. Frithjof Lutscher, Ottawa
  188. Gordon MacDonald, PEI
  189. Neal Madras, York
  190. Rogemar Mamon, Western
  191. Brian Marcus, UBC
  192. Greg Martin, UBC
  193. Javad Mashregi, Laval
  194. David E. Matthews, Waterloo
  195. Robert McCann, Toronto (member 2011 Evaluation Group)
  196. Connell McCluskey, Laurier
  197. David McKinnon, Waterloo
  198. Don McLeish, Waterloo
  199. Eckhard Meinrenken, Toronto, FRSC
  200. Franklin Mendivil, Acadia
  201. Paul Mezo, Carleton University
  202. Pierre Milman, Toronto, FRSC
  203. Ján Mináč, Western
  204. Maung Min-oo, McMaster
  205. Jamie Mingo, Queen’s
  206. Richard A. Mollin, Calgary
  207. Michael Monagan, SFU
  208. Rahim Moosa, Waterloo
  209. Ruxandra Moraru, Waterloo
  210. Joy Morris, Lethbridge
  211. Fiona Murnaghan, Toronto
  212. Kumar Murty, Toronto, FRSC
  213. Ram Murty, Queens, FRSC
  214. Kieka Mynhardt, Victoria
  215. Alex Nabutovsky, Toronto
  216. Adrian Nachman, Toronto
  217. Erhard Neher, Ottawa
  218. Zhuang Niu, Memorial
  219. Ortrud Oellermann, Winnipeg
  220. Pablo Oliveras, Ryerson
  221. B. Doug Park, Waterloo
  222. Anthony Peirce, Toronto
  223. Edwin Perkins, UBC, FRSC, CRC
  224. Alexandra Pettet, UBC
  225. John Phillips, Victoria
  226. Arturo Pianzola, U. Alberta
  227. Chris Pickles, Queens
  228. Martin Pinsonnault, Western
  229. Iosif Polterovich, U. Montreal
  230. David Poole, Trent
  231. Dorette Pronk, Dalhousie
  232. Bartosz Protas, McMaster
  233. Mary Pugh, Toronto
  234. Kevin Purbhoo, Waterloo
  235. Ian Putnam, Victoria, FRSC, CRC
  236. Anthony Quas, Victoria, CRC
  237. Jeremy Quastel, Toronto
  238. Chris Radford, Memorial
  239. Sujatha Ramdorai, UBC, CRC
  240. Robert Raphael, Concordia
  241. Andrew Rechnitzer, UBC
  242. Nancy Reid, Toronto, FRSC, CRC
  243. Jean-Francois Renaud, UQAM
  244. Bruce Richter, Waterloo
  245. Louis-Paul Rivest, Laval
  246. Dale Rolfsen, UBC
  247. Mike Roth, Queens
  248. Regina Rotman, Toronto
  249. Christiane Rousseau, U. Montreal
  250. Damien Roy, Ottawa
  251. Volker Runde, Alberta
  252. Peter Russell, McGill
  253. Hassan Safouhi, UAlberta
  254. Yvan Saint-Aubin, U. Montreal
  255. Mateja Sajna, Ottawa
  256. Tom Salisbury, York
  257. Hadi Salmasian, Ottawa
  258. Bill Sands, Calgary
  259. Manuele Santoprete, Laurier
  260. David Saunders, Waterloo
  261. Alistair Savage, Ottawa
  262. Nabil Sayari, Moncton
  263. Renate Scheidler, Calgary
  264. Dana Schlomiuk, U. Montreal
  265. David Scollnik, Calgary
  266. Matthew Scott, Waterloo
  267. Jonathan P. Seldin, Lethbridge
  268. Paul Selick, Toronto
  269. Gordon Semenoff, UBC, FRSC
  270. Karen Seyffarth, Calgary
  271. Vasilisa Shramchenko, Sherbrooke
  272. Alexander Shnirelman, Concordia, CRC
  273. Israel Michael Sigal, Toronto, FRSC
  274. Gordon Slade, UBC, FRSC
  275. Christopher G. Small, Waterloo
  276. Gregory G. Smith, Queen’s
  277. Robert Smith, Ottawa
  278. Gary Sneddon, Memorial –> MSVU
  279. Jozsef Solymosi, UBC
  280. Juan Souto, UBC
  281. Artur P. Sowa, Saskatchewan
  282. Blair Spearman, UBC Okanagan
  283. Roland Speicher, Queen’s
  284. Patrick Speissegger, McMaster, CRC
  285. Nico Spronk, Waterloo
  286. Muni Srivastava, Toronto
  287. Alina Stancu, Concordia
  288. Juris Steprans, York
  289. Brett Stevens, Careleton
  290. Cameron Stewart, Waterloo, FRSC
  291. Anna Stokke, Winnipeg
  292. Ross Stokke, Winnipeg
  293. Catherine Sulem, Toronto
  294. Wei Sun, Concordia
  295. Ken Seng Tan, Waterloo
  296. Keith Taylor, Dalhousie
  297. Hugh Thomas, UNB
  298. Mary Thompson, Waterloo, FRSC
  299. Aaron Tikuisis, Toronto
  300. James G. Timourian, Alberta
  301. Stevo Todorcevic, Toronto, CRC
  302. Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, UAlberta, FRSC, CRC
  303. Vladimir Troitsky, Alberta
  304. Manfred Trummer, SFU
  305. TaiPeng Tsai, UBC
  306. Murat Tuncali, Nipissing
  307. Adam Van Tuyl, Lakehead
  308. Stephanie van Willigenburg, UBC
  309. Yevgeniy Vasilyev, Memorial
  310. Bálint Virág, Toronto, CRC
  311. Roman Viveros-Aguilera, McMaster
  312. Edward Vrscay, Waterloo
  313. McKenzie Wang, McMaster
  314. Shawn X. Wang, UBC Okanagan
  315. Michael Ward, UBC
  316. David Wehlau, Queens
  317. Alfred Weiss, UAlberta, FRSC
  318. William Weiss, Toronto
  319. Walter Whiteley, York
  320. Ross Willard, Waterloo
  321. Hugh Williams, Calgary
  322. Gord Willmot, Waterloo
  323. Shelly Wismath,  Lethbridge
  324. Gail Wolkowicz, McMaster
  325. Henry Wolkowicz, Waterloo
  326. Douglas G. Woolford, Laurier
  327. Jianhong Wu, York, CRC
  328. Michael Yampolsky, Toronto
  329. Vlad Yaskin, UAlberta
  330. Grace Yi, Waterloo
  331. Ozgur Yilmaz, UBC
  332. Noriko Yui, Queens
  333. Imed Zaguia, Royal Military College
  334. Kirill Zainoulline, Ottawa
  335. Ping Zhou, SFXU
  336. Zhou Zhou, Toronto

Click here for additional signatories

Filed Under: 2011 Tagged With: Discovery Grants, NSERC

Comments

  1. nmlcadmin says:
    2011-04-27 at 7:43 am

    Please feel free to use the comments sections to add your name to the list of signatories.

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    • Olivier Collin says:
      2011-05-2 at 11:16 am

      Please add my name to the list.

      Olivier Collin
      UQAM

      member 2011 committe

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    • David Poole says:
      2011-05-2 at 11:23 am

      Please add my name to the list of signatories.

      David Poole
      Trent

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    • Heath Emerson says:
      2011-05-2 at 11:51 am

      Please add my name to the list of signatories.

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    • Dorette Pronk says:
      2011-05-2 at 12:19 pm

      Please add my name to the list of signatories.

      Dorette Pronk
      Dalhousie

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    • David Kribs says:
      2011-05-2 at 1:13 pm

      Please add my name to the list.

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    • Reinhard Illner says:
      2011-05-2 at 1:22 pm

      Please add my name to the list.

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    • Roderick Edwards says:
      2011-05-2 at 1:56 pm

      Please add my name to the list of signatories.

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    • Cameron Stewart says:
      2011-05-2 at 2:38 pm

      I agree with the letter.Please add my name to the list.

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    • John Phillips says:
      2011-05-2 at 3:07 pm

      I agree fully with this letter. Please add my name to the list of signatories.

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    • David Boyd says:
      2011-05-2 at 3:18 pm

      NSERC seems to have gone out of their way to turn a well-functioning system into a mess. I hope the letter will bring some prompt action. A fair, transparent and stable Discovery Grant system is vital to the health of mathematics in Canada. Please add my signature to the letter.

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    • Bill Sands says:
      2011-05-2 at 3:25 pm

      Please add my name to the list.

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    • Bill Casselman says:
      2011-05-2 at 7:06 pm

      UBC

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    • Brian Marcus says:
      2011-05-2 at 8:24 pm

      Please add my name:

      Brian Marcus (UBC)

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    • Mary Thompson says:
      2011-05-2 at 8:25 pm

      Please add my name to the list.

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    • Walter Whiteley says:
      2011-05-2 at 8:45 pm

      Please add my name.

      The positive impact of keeping active people with grants that permit support of undergraduate and graduate students, rather than cutting such people off from grants.

      Walter Whiteley
      York University

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    • Yu-Ru Liu says:
      2011-05-2 at 9:19 pm

      Please add my name to the list.

      Yu-Ru Liu
      Waterloo

      Thank you for your help.

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    • Wentang Kuo says:
      2011-05-2 at 9:53 pm

      Please add my name to the list.

      Wentang Kuo

      Waterloo

      Thank you for your help.

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    • Matthew Scott says:
      2011-05-3 at 9:50 am

      Please add my name to the list (Matthew Scott, Waterloo). Thank you.

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    • Anthony Quas says:
      2011-05-3 at 10:30 am

      Please add my name too.

      I am a former GSC/EG member (2007-9). I like many features of the new system, but strongly dislike the way that the financial part of the decision is divorced from the committee.

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    • Helene Cossette says:
      2011-05-3 at 11:01 am

      Please add my name to the list (Laval University)

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    • Zhuang Niu says:
      2011-05-3 at 11:44 am

      Please add my name to the list. (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

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    • Lilia Krivodonova says:
      2011-05-3 at 12:00 pm

      Please add my name to the list.

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    • Noriko Yui says:
      2011-05-3 at 12:54 pm

      Please add my name to the list.

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    • Warren Hare says:
      2011-05-3 at 4:22 pm

      Please add my name to the list. (UBC Okanagan)

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    • Kirill Zainoulline says:
      2011-05-3 at 5:17 pm

      Please, add my name to the list – I don’t think that changing the grant policies so fast and unpredictable makes Canada
      attractive on the world scale, especially among young scientists.

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    • Dong Eui Chang says:
      2011-05-4 at 7:59 pm

      Please add my name

      Dong Eui Chang
      Waterloo

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    • Catharine Baker says:
      2011-05-9 at 9:22 am

      Please add my name to the list.

      Catharine Baker
      Mount Allison

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    • Michael Lamoureux says:
      2011-05-11 at 1:12 am

      Please add my name to the list of signatories.
      Michael Lamoureux, University of Calgary

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    • Hermann Eberl says:
      2011-05-11 at 10:19 am

      Please add me to the list.

      Hermann Eberl, University of Guelph, CRC, Member 2011 Evaluation Group,

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    • Ilijas Farah says:
      2011-05-12 at 8:11 am

      Thank you for writing this letter. Please add my name to the list.

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    • Stephen Anco says:
      2011-05-16 at 11:25 am

      Please add my name to the list.

      Stephen Anco (Brock University)

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    • Stephen Choi says:
      2011-05-31 at 7:52 pm

      Please add my name to the list

      Stephen Choi (Simon Fraser University)

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    • Paul Mezo says:
      2011-06-8 at 2:08 pm

      Please add my name to this list.

      Paul Mezo
      Carleton University

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    • Michael Kozdron says:
      2011-07-4 at 12:08 pm

      Please add my name to this list.

      Michael Kozdron (Regina)

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    • Shui Feng says:
      2011-11-11 at 11:22 am

      Please add my name to the list.

      Shui Feng (McMaster University)

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  2. Matilde N. Lalin says:
    2011-04-27 at 7:21 pm

    Hi, I’ve just want to sign. Thank you! Matilde

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  3. Nantel Bergeron says:
    2011-04-27 at 9:23 pm

    You can add my name to the list of signatories. (York University)

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  4. Deirdre Haskell says:
    2011-04-27 at 9:50 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories. Thank you for writing this letter.

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  5. Hans Boden says:
    2011-04-27 at 11:16 pm

    Thank you for drafting this letter and please add my name to the list of signatories.

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  6. Patrick Speissegger says:
    2011-04-28 at 3:26 am

    I fully agree with the opinions stated in this letter and wish to be added as a signatory. Thank you for writing it!

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  7. Neal Madras says:
    2011-04-28 at 10:28 am

    Please add my name to the list.

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  8. Martin Barlow says:
    2011-04-28 at 5:59 pm

    Please add my name too.

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  9. Greg Martin says:
    2011-04-28 at 6:45 pm

    And mine as well.

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  10. Bartosz Protas says:
    2011-04-28 at 7:35 pm

    I would like to have my name included as a signatory of this letter. Thank you.

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  11. Yvan Saint-Aubin says:
    2011-04-28 at 8:07 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

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  12. Juan Souto, UBC says:
    2011-04-28 at 9:32 pm

    hola, I would like to sign as well, thanks

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  13. Christophe Hohlweg says:
    2011-04-28 at 9:40 pm

    Hi,
    I would like to sign as well.

    Christophe Hohlweg
    Professor
    UQAM

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  14. Michael Ward says:
    2011-04-28 at 9:50 pm

    Please add my name as well… A rating of OVV should not have a 12K disparity from year to year…. this is not acceptable.

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  15. Spiro Karigiannis says:
    2011-04-28 at 10:51 pm

    You can sign my name to this list as well.

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  16. Vadim Kaimanovich says:
    2011-04-28 at 11:57 pm

    Please add my signature. Thank you

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  17. Heinz Bauschke, UBC says:
    2011-04-29 at 1:26 am

    Please add my signature to this list. Thank-you.

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  18. Gregory G Smith says:
    2011-04-29 at 1:48 am

    Please add my signature to this list. Thank you.

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  19. Bruce Richter says:
    2011-04-29 at 7:21 am

    Please add my signature.

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  20. Megumi Harada says:
    2011-04-29 at 8:17 am

    Thank you for writing this letter. Please add my name to the list of signatories.

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  21. Jochen Koenemann says:
    2011-04-29 at 8:22 am

    Please add my signature.

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  22. Ping Zhou says:
    2011-04-29 at 8:59 am

    Thank you for writing this letter. Please add my name to the list of signatories.

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  23. Ricardo Fukasawa says:
    2011-04-29 at 9:31 am

    Please add my signature as well. from Univ. of Waterloo.

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  24. Christiane Lemieux says:
    2011-04-29 at 9:38 am

    Please add my name to the list. Thank you.

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  25. Kevin Purbhoo says:
    2011-04-29 at 9:44 am

    Please add my name to the signature list. (University of Waterloo)

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  26. Niky Kamran says:
    2011-04-29 at 9:52 am

    Please add my name too. Thank you.

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  27. Adam Van Tuyl says:
    2011-04-29 at 9:53 am

    Please add my name to the list. Thanks! (I’m from Lakehead University)

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  28. Ian Hambleton says:
    2011-04-29 at 10:12 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    This basic inequity in the award system is not acceptable: NSERC Discovery Grants for proposals of equal merit should receive comparable funding across all the disciplines and grant panels.

    Reply
  29. Andrew P. Dean says:
    2011-04-29 at 10:35 am

    Please add my name (Lakehead University)

    Reply
  30. Tom Archibald says:
    2011-04-29 at 11:29 am

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.

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  31. Anthony Peirce says:
    2011-04-29 at 11:56 am

    The NSERC Discovery Grants Program has been admired by many of our colleagues in the US and around the world. Indeed, the government funding for research in a number of developing countries has been modeled on the highly successful NSREC DGP. There was widespread satisfaction, even pride, in a peer evaluation system that was seen as measured and fair. However, this perception of fairness has all but evaporated with the recent changes to the evaluation process that seen the introduction of a “binning system” that removes the nuance and discretion from the peer adjudication panel in favor of a bureaucratic override to achieve a lowering of the success rate. A key change in the evaluation system is to make HQP output as important as research output. While training of HQP is clearly an important enterprise for researchers, not all research fields, though equally important, are best served by or even capable of producing large teams of graduate students. Many researchers, despite active and productive research activity, have seen their grants cut and their research programs compromised. This is dangerous territory. In order to meet the new criteria for the DGP, these researchers will need to modify or abandon their research programs in order to accommodate a greater number of HQP. This could easily lead to the dilution of standards as advisors are pressured to push graduate students through the system – independent of the quality. The rich diversity of research will be compromised, and the negative impact on the advancement of science in Canada will be profound.

    So please add my name to the list.

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    • nmlcadmin says:
      2011-05-2 at 12:59 pm

      Thanks. Please also direct your comments to the LRP.
      http://longrangeplan.ca/

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  32. Razvan Fetecau says:
    2011-04-29 at 12:07 pm

    Please add my name to the list (Simon Fraser University)

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  33. Cedric Chauve says:
    2011-04-29 at 12:55 pm

    Please add my name to the list (Simon Fraser University)

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  34. Razvan Anisca says:
    2011-04-29 at 1:07 pm

    Please add my name too.

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  35. Jim Geelen, Waterloo says:
    2011-04-29 at 1:11 pm

    Please add my name.

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  36. David M Jackson says:
    2011-04-29 at 1:27 pm

    Please add my name to this list.

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  37. Christiane Rousseau says:
    2011-04-29 at 3:03 pm

    Please add my name to this list.

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  38. Nils Bruin says:
    2011-04-29 at 3:22 pm

    Please add my name to the list (Simon Fraser University)

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  39. Michael Monagan says:
    2011-04-29 at 3:30 pm

    Please add my name to the list (Simon Fraser University)

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  40. Frithjof Lutscher says:
    2011-04-29 at 9:12 pm

    Thank you for taking this initiative. I fully support the letter. Please add my name to the list. (University of Ottawa)

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  41. Mateja Sajna says:
    2011-04-29 at 9:30 pm

    I would like to sign, too. Thank you. (University of Ottawa)

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  42. Shawn X. Wang says:
    2011-04-29 at 10:28 pm

    I fully support this effort. Please add my name to the list. (University of British Columbia)

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  43. Mary-Catherine Kropinski says:
    2011-04-30 at 12:01 am

    Please add my name to the list of signatories (Simon Fraser University).

    Reply
  44. Dmitry Jakobson says:
    2011-04-30 at 12:38 am

    Please, add my name to the list of signatories (McGill)

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  45. Ruxandra Moraru says:
    2011-04-30 at 2:49 am

    Please add my name to the list of signatories. Thank you. (Waterloo University)

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  46. Manfred Trummer says:
    2011-04-30 at 2:53 am

    The strong focus on HQP is problematic. I understand that the evaluation committee does not simply count students and postdocs, but what is a “good” number of graduate students and postdocs clearly depends on the field. The system also needs some memory, taking on HQP is a long-term commitment.
    I support the letter, I would like to sign. (Simon Fraser University)

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  47. Amir Akbary says:
    2011-04-30 at 3:29 am

    Please add my name to the list. (Lethbridge)

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  48. Gordon Semenoff says:
    2011-04-30 at 6:57 am

    I also want tosign. And, thank you very much for expressing so clearly what
    we all believe to be the problem.

    Reply
  49. Andrew D. Lewis says:
    2011-04-30 at 7:03 am

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.

    Andrew D. Lewis (Queen’s University)

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  50. Anthony Bonato says:
    2011-04-30 at 9:40 am

    Please add my name to the list. (Ryerson)

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  51. Gregory G Smith says:
    2011-04-30 at 10:45 am

    Please fixed the typo in my name; my middle initial is “G”. Thanks.

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    • nmlcadmin says:
      2011-05-1 at 2:20 am

      Sorry about that.

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  52. David Wehlau says:
    2011-04-30 at 11:00 am

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.

    David Wehlau (Queen’s University)

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  53. Ian F. Putnam (U. Victoria) says:
    2011-04-30 at 12:18 pm

    I agree completely; please add my name to the signatures.

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  54. James A Mingo says:
    2011-04-30 at 1:25 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.

    Jamie Mingo (Queen’s)

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  55. Anthony V. Geramita says:
    2011-04-30 at 1:33 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.

    Reply
  56. Richard A. Mollin says:
    2011-04-30 at 2:01 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories. Thank you for a well-written and cogent letter.

    Reply
  57. Thierry Giordano says:
    2011-04-30 at 3:37 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories

    Reply
  58. Victor LeBlanc says:
    2011-04-30 at 3:53 pm

    Please add my name. Thank you. (University of Ottawa)

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  59. Justin Gray says:
    2011-04-30 at 3:58 pm

    Please add my name to the list. (SFU)

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  60. Alistair Savage says:
    2011-04-30 at 3:58 pm

    Please add my name.

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  61. Ryan Budney says:
    2011-04-30 at 4:01 pm

    Thank you for writing this letter. Please add my name to the list of signatories.

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  62. Barry Jessup says:
    2011-04-30 at 4:21 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories

    I would like to add that NSERC’s recent decision to ignore major administrative contributions (e.g. Chair/Associate Chair of the department) by applicants during their award will discourage young (and not-so-young!) researchers from taking an active role in the leadership of our Universities.

    To make matters worse, this decision has been ‘back-dated’ and applied to researchers who had taken on major administrative roles before NSERC changed the rules. Change the policy if you must, but give us – and our Universities – enough notice to plan ahead. Huge adjustments will be needed inside Faculties to accommodate this misguided policy change.

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    • nmlcadmin says:
      2011-05-1 at 2:23 am

      Please also direct these comments to the LRP (http://longrangeplan.ca/).

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  63. Robert Smith? says:
    2011-04-30 at 6:00 pm

    I wholeheartedly agree with this, even as someone who isn’t limited to just NSERC.

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  64. Gail Wolkowicz says:
    2011-04-30 at 11:29 pm

    Thank you for drafting this letter. Please add me to the list.

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  65. Marcelo Laca (Victoria) says:
    2011-05-1 at 3:34 am

    Yes indeed! Please add my name to the list.

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  66. Manfred Kolster says:
    2011-05-1 at 7:40 am

    Please add my name to the list.

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  67. Hugo Chapdelaine (Laval) says:
    2011-05-1 at 8:22 am

    Please add my name to the list.

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  68. Roland Speicher says:
    2011-05-1 at 1:14 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Roland Speicher (Queen’s)

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  69. ekeland says:
    2011-05-1 at 4:30 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories

    Ivar ekeland, FRSC

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  70. Henry Wolkowicz says:
    2011-05-1 at 9:04 pm

    I strongly agree with the letter. Please add my name to the list.

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  71. Edward Vrscay says:
    2011-05-1 at 9:22 pm

    Please add my name to the list. Thank you very much! (Applied Mathematics, U Waterloo)

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  72. Lucien Haddad says:
    2011-05-2 at 7:15 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Lucien Haddad. Royal Military College of Canada.

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  73. Lucien Haddad says:
    2011-05-2 at 7:16 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Lucien Haddad, math & info, Collège militaire royal du Canada.

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  74. McKenzie Wang says:
    2011-05-2 at 9:19 am

    It is especially troubling for me as a former member of the grant selection committee to hear about the results of the
    last three competitions. I wish to reiterate some of the points made so eloquently in the open letter.

    1. It is always bad to insert administrative layers between academic evaluations and the final outcome, be it a grant
    award, a tenure decision, or an academic appointment.

    2. The more emphasis is placed on the training of HQP, the more ridiculous the low levels of funding handed out to larger and larger numbers of very good mathematicians appears, since there are fixed costs for supporting HQP that are the same across all disciplines.

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    • nmlcadmin says:
      2011-05-2 at 12:07 pm

      Thank you. Please also direct your comments to the LRP Committee.
      http://longrangeplan.ca/

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  75. Pablo Olivares says:
    2011-05-2 at 9:32 am

    Please add my name to the list.
    (Ryerson University, Toronto)

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  76. François Bergeron says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:10 am

    Please add my name to the list.

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  77. Olivier Collin (member 2011 committee) says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:17 am

    Please add my name to the list.

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  78. Bill Cunningham says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:25 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  79. Alex de Leon says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:38 am

    Please add my name to the list. (Calgary)

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  80. Gary Sneddon says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:39 am

    Please add my name to the list.

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  81. Kenneth Davidson says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:41 am

    Please add my signature to the list.
    Ken

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  82. Jianhong Wu says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:50 am

    I agree with the letter, please add my name to the list.

    I agree with the statement that “In pure mathematics, the Discovery Grant Program is the only research resource available, and pure mathematicians are less able to leverage their Discovery Grants to obtain other grants than scientists in other disciplines.” I would like to add that the Discovery Grant Program is also essential to protect the integrity of applied mathematics (if anyone believes there is a clear boundary between pure and applied mathematics), specially if we anticipate applied mathematics should also lead to new mathematical challenges, in addition to novel applications. A healthy applied mathematical community cannot be sustained without a critical national strength/capacity in pure mathematics.

    My limited information indicates that the outcome of this year’s competition in “applied” mathematics is not better than “pure” mathematics (even taking into account of other NSERC programs). Some proposals seem to have carried the additional burden of “not being applied enough”. Knowledge translation in mathematics should involve a continuous spectrum of fields rather than two endpoints, and interdisciplinary research should also be understood to include collaborations of mathematicians from different fields (including both pure and applied).

    Again, I agree with the letter.

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  83. Ken Jackson says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:52 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  84. Florin Diacu says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:53 am

    Please add my name the list.

    Florin Diacu

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  85. David Scollnik says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:58 am

    Please add my name to the list. (University of Calgary)

    Reply
  86. Nabil Sayari says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:58 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  87. Franklin Mendivil says:
    2011-05-2 at 12:13 pm

    Please add my name to the list as well.

    (Acadia University)

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  88. James G Timourian says:
    2011-05-2 at 12:26 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  89. James B Carrell says:
    2011-05-2 at 12:32 pm

    Please add my name to the list also.

    Reply
  90. Elena Braverman says:
    2011-05-2 at 12:43 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  91. George Bluman says:
    2011-05-2 at 12:44 pm

    Please add my name to the list

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  92. Vladimir Troitsky says:
    2011-05-2 at 12:45 pm

    Please add my name to the list (U Alberta).

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  93. Murray R. Bremner says:
    2011-05-2 at 12:54 pm

    I agree very strongly with the letter from the Mathematics Liaison Committee.
    My application this year was significantly stronger than five years ago, with a
    much larger number of HQP – but my grant was renewed at exactly the same
    level. Furthermore, there is strong evidence that if I had submitted the same
    application last year, I would have received a substantially larger grant. The
    inconsistencies in the results of the evaluation process are obvious, and are
    seriously undermining the Canadian mathematical community’s confidence
    in, and respect for, the NSERC Discovery Grant system.

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    • nmlcadmin says:
      2011-05-2 at 1:10 pm

      Thank you for your comment. Please also direct these statements to the LRP:
      http://longrangeplan.ca/

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      • Sebastian Ferrando says:
        2011-05-2 at 1:19 pm

        Hi,

        I understand that the deadline to provide feedback in http://longrangeplan.ca/
        has already passed, correct?

        Regards,

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  94. Carmen Bruni says:
    2011-05-2 at 12:58 pm

    Please add my name to the list. (UBC)

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  95. Lee Keener says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:03 pm

    Please add my name to the list. (UNBC)

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  96. Sebastian Ferrando says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:17 pm

    Engineering and controlling research initiatives in mathematics (and other pure sciences) presume that assessment of quality and content of proposals can be done with some kind of perfect system. Bureaucrats like to believe, and advertise, that they are running such a glorified system, some scientists serving in committees may play along and provide the seal of approval. It seems wiser to acknowledge the serious limitations of any such a system, and the negative implications of its limitations, by providing financial support to a larger percentage of serious and productive mathematicians across Canada. The previous granting methodology provided a sense of fairness and helped to build a healthy and strong mathematical community with members that care for each other and for the future of mathematics and our students.

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  97. James Currie says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:25 pm

    Please add my name to the list. (University of Winnipeg)

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  98. Richard Blute says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:28 pm

    Please add me too (U. Ottawa)

    Reply
  99. Sebastian Ferrando says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:32 pm

    Please add me to the list.
    Department of Mathematics,
    Ryerson University.

    Reply
  100. Jozsef Solymosi says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:34 pm

    Please add my name to the list. (UBC)

    Reply
  101. Martial Agueh says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:37 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  102. Don McLeish says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:40 pm

    Please add my name.
    NSERC seems carried away by their own rhetoric. Recent “fixes” do more damage than good to the DG program, were completely unsupported by the community they serve, and are antithetic to the language NSERC uses to describe them.

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  103. Grace Yi says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:47 pm

    I suport this. Please add my name to the list.

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  104. Charlie Edmunds says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:49 pm

    Please add my name to the list of supporters.

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  105. Charlie Edmunds MSVU says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:50 pm

    Mount Saint Vincent

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  106. Robert Klinzmann says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:56 pm

    Please add me to the list of supporters:

    Robert Klinzmann
    University of British Columbia

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  107. Christopher G. Small says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:57 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  108. Fred Brauer says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:58 pm

    Please add me to the list of signers.

    Fred Brauer
    University of British Columbia

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  109. Richard Froese says:
    2011-05-2 at 1:59 pm

    Please add my name to the list. (UBC)

    Reply
  110. Christopher G. Small says:
    2011-05-2 at 2:07 pm

    Christopher G. Small
    Waterloo

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  111. Jonathan P. Seldin says:
    2011-05-2 at 2:11 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Jonathan P. Seldin

    University of Lethbridge

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  112. Chris Bose says:
    2011-05-2 at 2:23 pm

    Chris Bose, University of Victoria

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  113. David Saunders says:
    2011-05-2 at 2:24 pm

    Please add my name to the list.
    David Saunders
    University of Waterloo

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  114. B. Doug Park says:
    2011-05-2 at 2:31 pm

    B. Doug Park
    University of Waterloo

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  115. David E. Matthews says:
    2011-05-2 at 2:35 pm

    I concur with this letter. Please add my name to the list

    David Matthews

    University of Waterloo

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  116. David McKinnon says:
    2011-05-2 at 2:38 pm

    David McKinnon, University of Waterloo

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  117. Ozgur Yilmaz says:
    2011-05-2 at 2:44 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Ozgur Yilmaz, UBC

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  118. Bernard Colin says:
    2011-05-2 at 3:07 pm

    Please add my name to the list

    Reply
  119. Manuele Santoprete says:
    2011-05-2 at 3:10 pm

    I agree with the letter. Please add my name to the list.

    Manuele Santoprete

    Wilfrid Laurier University

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  120. Nico Spronk says:
    2011-05-2 at 4:16 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.

    Reply
  121. Artur P Sowa says:
    2011-05-2 at 4:26 pm

    I support the letter — please add my signature.

    I believe that if we are to restore confidence in the peer review process, we ought to address all aspects of it. The present letter focuses on the shortcomings of the binning system, and other generally administrative aspects of the process. While these are important issues, we should also review the scientific and cultural aspects of the process.

    It seems that little attention is given at present to the adverse effects of undeclared conflict of interest. It is my perception that some referees abuse the peer review process to deter competition. Many innovative proposals will not get a fair review, unless the committees are given the means and the authority to identify and turn away dishonest or sloppy reviewers. In addition, a randomization of the process of referee selection may be one possible way of addressing this hidden problem.

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    • nmlcadmin says:
      2011-05-2 at 10:38 pm

      Please also share your comments about a more vigorous peer review process with the LRP:
      http://longrangeplan.ca/

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  122. Rogemar Mamon says:
    2011-05-2 at 4:31 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Rogemar S Mamon
    University of Western Ontario

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  123. Karen Seyffarth says:
    2011-05-2 at 5:05 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Karen Seyffarth
    University of Calgary

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  124. Douglas G. Woolford says:
    2011-05-2 at 5:16 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Douglas G. Woolford
    Wilfrid Laurier University

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  125. Connell McCluskey says:
    2011-05-2 at 5:17 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Wilfrid Laurier University

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  126. Murat Tuncali says:
    2011-05-2 at 6:45 pm

    Please add my name to the list.
    Murat Tuncali
    Nipissing University

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  127. Monica Ilie says:
    2011-05-2 at 7:32 pm

    Please add me to the list of signatories.

    Reply
  128. Joy Morris says:
    2011-05-2 at 9:42 pm

    Please add my name. University of Lethbridge.

    Reply
  129. Stephanie van Willigenburg, UBC says:
    2011-05-2 at 10:21 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories. Thank for this, and for drafting this letter.

    Reply
  130. Charmaine Dean says:
    2011-05-2 at 11:22 pm

    Please add my name.

    Reply
  131. Tomasz Kaczynski says:
    2011-05-3 at 4:38 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Tomasz Kaczynski, Université de Sherbrooke

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  132. Chris Radford says:
    2011-05-3 at 7:48 am

    Please add my name to the list

    Chris Radford.

    Head, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

    Memorial University.

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  133. Danny Dyer says:
    2011-05-3 at 7:56 am

    Please add my name.

    Danny Dyer, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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  134. Edgar Goodaire says:
    2011-05-3 at 8:39 am

    Please add my name to the list of signatories. ………Edgar

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  135. Rahim Moosa says:
    2011-05-3 at 10:06 am

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.

    Reply
  136. Sue Ann Campbell says:
    2011-05-3 at 10:58 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  137. Ortrud Oellermann says:
    2011-05-3 at 11:00 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  138. Yemon Choi says:
    2011-05-3 at 11:08 am

    Thank you for your efforts. Please add my name to the list of signatories.

    Yemon Choi (U. of Saskatchewan)

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  139. Wenqing He says:
    2011-05-3 at 11:51 am

    Please add my name to the list:

    Wenqing He (UWO)

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  140. Ross Stokke says:
    2011-05-3 at 12:32 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories. Thank you.

    Reply
  141. Juris Steprans says:
    2011-05-3 at 1:01 pm

    Please add my name to list of supporters

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  142. Erhard Neher says:
    2011-05-3 at 1:15 pm

    Please add my name to the list of supporters.

    Reply
  143. Christian Boudreau says:
    2011-05-3 at 1:21 pm

    Please add my name to the list, and thank you for writing this letter.

    Christian Boudreau
    University of Waterloo

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  144. Kieka Mynhardt says:
    2011-05-3 at 1:32 pm

    Please add my name to the list of supporters.

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  145. Damien Roy says:
    2011-05-3 at 5:57 pm

    Prière d’ajouter mon nom à la liste des signataires. Cette lettre est bien rédigée et témoigne bien du malaise que crée la dérive des politiques du CRSNG depuis quelques années, en particulier l’importance exagérée donnée à la formation de chercheurs et leur dogme qu’il faille réduire le taux de succès des demandes de subvention pour assurer l’excellence du programme.

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    • nmlcadmin says:
      2011-05-4 at 5:10 pm

      Merci. Veuillez partager également vos commentaires avec le LRP : http://longrangeplan.ca/

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  146. Maung Min-Oo says:
    2011-05-3 at 6:20 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.
    Maung Min-Oo
    McMaster University

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  147. Jeannette Janssen says:
    2011-05-3 at 8:28 pm

    Please add my name.

    Reply
  148. Jeannette Janssen, Dalhousie says:
    2011-05-3 at 8:29 pm

    Please add my name and affilitation

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  149. Sujatha Ramdorai says:
    2011-05-4 at 2:12 am

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.

    Reply
  150. Shelly Wismath says:
    2011-05-4 at 4:23 am

    Please add my name to the list: Shelly Wismath, University of Lethbridge

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  151. Tom Baird says:
    2011-05-4 at 8:11 am

    Please add me to the list: Tom Baird, Memorial

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  152. Hadi Salmasian says:
    2011-05-4 at 9:33 am

    Please add me to the list. Hadi Salmasian, University of Ottawa.

    Reply
  153. Dmitry Korotkin says:
    2011-05-4 at 9:59 am

    Please add my name to the list

    Dmitry Korotkin, Concordia University

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  154. Javad Mashreghi says:
    2011-05-4 at 10:06 am

    Please add my name.
    Javad Mashreghi
    Laval Univesity

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    • Blair Spearman says:
      2011-05-4 at 10:26 am

      Please add my name to the list.
      Blair Spearman
      UBC Okanagan

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  155. Anna Stokke says:
    2011-05-4 at 10:59 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Anna Stokke, University of Winnipeg

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  156. Shonda Gosselin says:
    2011-05-4 at 12:19 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Shonda Gosselin, University of Winnipeg

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  157. Gerald Cliff says:
    2011-05-4 at 2:03 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Gerald Cliff, University of Alberta

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  158. Colin C. Graham says:
    2011-05-4 at 2:17 pm

    1. Please add my name to the list.

    Colin C. Graham, UBC

    2. The current system of binning penalizes people at institutions that don’t have large graduate programs (most of the Maritime schools, for example). A decrease on emphasis on training HQP and a return to small grants should be considered.

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    • nmlcadmin says:
      2011-05-4 at 5:07 pm

      Thank you for your comments. Please also direct these suggestions to the LRP:
      http://longrangeplan.ca/

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  159. Michael Lau says:
    2011-05-4 at 8:38 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Michael Lau, Université Laval

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  160. Chris Pickles says:
    2011-05-5 at 1:03 pm

    Hi, Please add me to your list. There are diverse ways to achieve research objectives and one of them is to have HQP. One should not be penalized for not having “enough” HQP or publications with HQP. This means a single author paper is not only zero its a negative. Let’s divide these multiple author papers by the number of authors!

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  161. Kevin Lamb says:
    2011-05-6 at 9:27 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  162. Ross Willard says:
    2011-05-6 at 3:41 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.

    Reply
  163. Volker Runde says:
    2011-05-6 at 8:13 pm

    Please, add my signature.

    Best,

    Volker.

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  164. Yevgeniy Vasilyev says:
    2011-05-7 at 11:34 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Yevgeniy Vasilyev, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University

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  165. Imed Zaguia says:
    2011-05-8 at 9:45 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Imed Zaguia
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Royal Military College of Canada

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  166. Robert Dawson says:
    2011-05-9 at 9:46 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  167. Edwin Perkins says:
    2011-05-9 at 11:50 pm

    Please add my signature.

    Ed Perkins

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  168. Joel Feldman says:
    2011-05-10 at 12:31 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Joel Feldman

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  169. Ram Murty, FRSC says:
    2011-05-10 at 2:12 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Ram Murty

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  170. Kathryn Hare says:
    2011-05-10 at 8:25 pm

    Please add my name to the list.
    Kathryn Hare

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  171. Hugh Williams says:
    2011-05-12 at 10:30 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  172. Gordon MacDonald says:
    2011-05-12 at 11:09 am

    please add my name to the list.

    Gordon MacDonald
    Dept. of Math & Stats,
    University of Prince Edward Island

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  173. Alexander Shnirelman says:
    2011-05-12 at 2:38 pm

    Please, add my name to the list.

    Alexander Shnirelman, CRC
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    Concordia University
    Montreal

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  174. Mike Roth says:
    2011-05-12 at 4:21 pm

    Please add my name to the list:

    Mike Roth
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
    Queen’s University

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  175. Hugh Chipman says:
    2011-05-12 at 7:12 pm

    Please add my name to the list

    Hugh Chipman, CRC
    Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    Acadia University

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  176. Henri Darmon, FRSC says:
    2011-05-12 at 7:13 pm

    You can add my name to the list. (You can also mention that
    I chaired the NSERC GSC 336 in Pure Math in 2007.)

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  177. Dejan Delic says:
    2011-05-12 at 7:57 pm

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.

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  178. Omar Kihel says:
    2011-05-13 at 1:35 am

    Please add my name to the list
    Omar Kihel Brock University

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  179. Adrian Iovita says:
    2011-05-13 at 9:30 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    Adrian Iovita

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  180. Jerry Lawless, FRSC says:
    2011-05-13 at 2:12 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Reply
  181. Renate Scheidler says:
    2011-05-15 at 3:48 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

    Renate Scheidler, University of Calgary

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  182. Ken Seng Tan says:
    2011-05-17 at 9:36 am

    Please add my name to the list.

    University of Waterloo

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  183. Martin Pinsonnault says:
    2011-05-22 at 11:49 am

    Please add my name to the list.

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  184. Dan Christensen says:
    2011-05-26 at 9:35 pm

    Please add my name to the list.

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  185. Aaron Tikuisis says:
    2011-06-3 at 4:01 pm

    Please add my name to the list:

    Aaron Tikuisis
    U. of Toronto

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  186. Hugh Thomas says:
    2011-06-6 at 12:06 pm

    Please add my name.

    Hugh Thomas
    UNB

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  187. Vasilisa Shramchenko says:
    2011-06-9 at 11:39 am

    Please add my name to the list of signatories.

    Vasilisa Shramchenko
    Université de Sherbrooke

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  188. brett stevens says:
    2011-08-15 at 3:35 pm

    I would very much like to sign this statement, but I want to add some comments. I feel that we should be also calling for the NSERC success rates to go back up again; I would argue back to 80% or higher. High success rates was one of the strengths of the NSERC discovery grant program according to the “Report of the International Review Committee of the Discovery Grant Program”; this is the best way to create a vibrant scientific community in Canada: Give as many active and talented mathematical scientists as possible funds to pursue their research program!

    I think that the emphasis on production of HQP has become much too high. Scientists can produce excellent research, contribute to the strength of our research community in Canada and keep Canada at the forefront of research without having to produce more and more HQP. This is related to the difficulty that primarily undergraduate universities are having with NSERC and thus also to the geographic inequities that are showing up in NSERC funding and if fixing this part of the problem fixes the disadvantages that these types of universities and these regons are having then great; but we should be prepared to keep speaking out if NSERC corrects its success rate problem and HQP over-emphasis and we still see certain universities and regions at a disadvantage.

    I would like to thank Catherine Baker for pointing out (in Vol 43, No. 3 of the CMS Notes) that the low success rates are, oddly enough, artificially high since many in our community have become so discouraged that they are not applying any more thus lowering the denominator in the success rate calculation and permitting us to believe that the problem is not as bad as it is! We should recognize this hidden problem and be absolutely outraged the fact that the true success rate is even lower than the “official” number.

    I have had many conversations with NSERC officers who I keep hoping, do hear and understand us. When these problems are not corrected I worry that we are not speaking to the right individuals but I have yet to be told who we can speak to to finally fix these problems.

    thanks for the medium to speak,
    brett

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