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Quick notes about Montréal: a lively city with English and French widely spoken plus many other minority languages. Most business can be conducted in either language. It has four large universities, two Anglophones, McGill, Concordia; and two Francophones: UQAM, and Université de Montréal. The [http://www.crm.umontreal.ca Centre de Recherches Mathematiques] (CRM) is a mathematical centre that brings together researchers from all four universities and others.
Quick notes about Montréal: a lively city with English and French widely spoken plus many other minority languages. Most business can be conducted in either language. It has four large universities, two Anglophones, McGill, Concordia; and two Francophones: UQAM, and Université de Montréal. The [http://www.crm.umontreal.ca Centre de Recherches Mathematiques] (CRM) is a mathematical centre that brings together researchers from all four universities and others.


The Montréal summer can be quite hot and humid with some chance of rain.
The Montréal summer can be quite hot and humid with some chance of rain. The city has a very serviceable public transportation network of buses and underground trains (metro), so there it is quite feasible to get around without renting a car.


== Dates ==
== Dates ==