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NSERC Competition Week

I am heading to Ottawa next week for NSERC Competition Week to judge NSERC Discovery grants in Mathematics & Statistics. Colleagues have asked me about how this works. I am reblogging an article I wrote from last year, which summarizes how the week unfolds. I’ve updated a few points, but the structure and function of the…

Judging NSERC Discovery Grants

As a follow up to my earlier blog about the Competition Week at NSERC, in the present post I share insights into the judging process for Discovery Grants. NSERC received hundreds of applications evaluated by the Mathematics and Statistics Evaluation Group (EG) 1508 this year. The role of the 34 mathematicians and statisticians on the EG was to vet these…

NSERC Evaluation Group – Ottawa Week

Your ticket to Hollywood, sort of Have you watched American Idol?  Do you remember the week when the contestants come to Hollywood to sing their heart out for a chance at the top 24? That is reminiscent of the judging process I am involved with now. NSERC First thing: I am so busy with the judging…