Deadline: October 1, 2026.

The CNRS has a significant number of international research laboratories in mathematics (IRL). The process for assignments abroad by the CNRS, as part of a delegation for female researchers and male researchers, allows for long-term stays, typically from six months to one year, under good conditions.

Unless there is a change in the organization of the CNRS, for stays starting in September 2027, it will be in the fall of 2026 that assignment requests must be submitted, according to a schedule similar to that of delegation requests. Since expatriation projects need to be prepared, it is therefore possible to start thinking about them right now.

For stays in Quebec, the international laboratory is the CRM-CNRS. Anyone interested in a temporary expatriation is invited to contact the director of the laboratory.

The Centre de recherches mathématiques CRM, the Quebec partner of the CRM-CNRS, covers all areas of mathematics in Quebec and Ottawa (in Ontario) very dynamically with over three hundred members. Assignments can therefore take place in Montreal, but also in Quebec City, Ottawa, or Trois-Rivières.

The essential element for an assignment request is a solid scientific project with a colleague from the province of Quebec or Ottawa.

I would like to draw your attention to two other IRLs in Canada:

  • the IRL Takuvik, in Quebec City (affiliated with the National Institute of Sciences of the Universe) that works on understanding the impacts of climate change and industrialization in the Canadian Arctic;
  • the IRL PIMS-CNRS, dedicated to mathematics in Western Canada (notably in Vancouver).

Projects involving the CRM-CNRS and one of these units can also be discussed.