The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences (IRMACS)

IRMACS is about the science that it drives, facilitates, and nurtures. It provides an environment that advances existing research programs, while at the same time incubating nascent and emerging new interdisciplinary research. The IRMACS Centre houses research projects for varying periods, providing physical workspace, state-of-the-art computational and communications resources, and expert technical support. Utilizing the carefully designed lab space and meeting room facilities and its extensive technological infrastructure (networking, computation, data storage, collaboration, and visualization), IRMACS removes the traditional boundaries between scientific disciplines and physical boundaries due to distance, creating a synergistic, collaborative environment that supports interdisciplinary research among colleagues locally, nationally and around the world.

The IRMACS Centre provides to its projects:

• Support, promotion and housing of high-quality interdisciplinary research groups
• Promotion of new scientific projects and collaborations
• Provision of state-of-the-art communications resources for scientific collaboration
• Provision and co-ordination of significant computational and visualization resources
• Housing of visiting researchers for both short-term (days or weeks) and long-term sabbaticals