Luc Vinet
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| Born |
April 16, 1953 Montreal, Quebec |
| Nationality |
 Canadian |
| Fields | Physics and Mathematics |
| Alma mater | PhD, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie and Université de Montréal |
| Doctoral advisor | Pavel Winternitz et John Harnad |
| Notable awards | Prix du Québec Armand-Frappier (2009), CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (2012) |
Luc Vinet (born April 16, 1953) is a Canadian physicist and former rector of the Université de Montréal.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Vinet holds a doctorate (3rd cycle) from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and a PhD from the Université de Montréal, both in theoretical physics. After two years as Research Associate at MIT, he was appointed in the early 1980s as faculty member in the Physics Department at the Université de Montréal. He has held a number of visiting professorships at various universities. He is the author or co-author of ten books and more than one hundred scientific papers. His research areas include gauge field theories, supersymmetry, quantum algebra, integrable systems and combinatorics.
At the Université de Montréal, Vinet held the position of director of the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) from 1993 to 1999. During his term as director, the CRM succeeded in rallying the forces of quantitative research by forming a network of centers of excellence in computing from the association of seven major Montreal research centers (CERCA, CIRANO, CRIM, CRM, CRI, GERAD and INRS–Télécom) under the banner of the Network for Computing and Mathematical Modeling (NCM2). The research network provides "one-stop" access to expertise calculation and modeling for more than 20 partner enterprises.
As president of NCM2 from 1996 to 1999, he was at the origin of two important research initiatives: the Bell University Laboratory, of which he became the first president and chief executive officer, and the Réseau québécois de calcul de haute performance (RQCHP), a high performance computing organization for which he presented the first grant application to the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Vinet is also one of the founding members of and the MITACS Network of Centers of Excellence, which received an initial funding of 14 million dollars.
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