Among new fields of application of mathematics that have arisen since the war one of the more important is the theory of nuclear reactors. The reader need hardly be reminded of the role that atomic energy is bound to play in our future. As an indication, however, of the amount of unclassified research that has to go and is going into the development of its peaceful applications it can be mentioned that there are now several scientific periodicals both in the U.S.A. and in Britain entirely devoted to problems appertaining to nuclear reactors. Much of this work, in particular most of the work regarding the diffusion and slowing down of neutrons, is entirely mathematical in nature.

Benjamin Franklin says "three moves are as bad as a fire". We have now accomplished two moves and hope we won't have the fire in which case our work will be more dis organized than it is now. As the work of the Congress has increased, we have been in need of .more and more space. We have now, thanks to our colleague Henri Gaudefroy, Director of the Ecole Polytechnique, and the Ecole Polytechnique board, two very commodious rooms in their new eleven million dollar building. We also have an attractive room in the Chemistry Building at McGill, thanks to Herbert Tate, Professor Winkler (Chairman of the Chemistry Department),and the McGill administration and governors.

Alberta high schools (Grades 10 to 12) give several courses in Mathematics, of which three are compulsory for those students intending to enter University. These three are Mathematics 10 (elements of Euclidean geometry, algebra up to simple equations, arithmetic), Mathematics 20 (geometry of the circle, loci, algebra up to quadratic equations) and Mathematics .30 (algebra, including systems of equations, progressions, permutations and combinations and the binomial theorem).