The ICMAT Newsletter #20 corresponds to the second semester 2020.
Table of contents:
- Editorial: “More science”, José María Martell (director of the ICMAT)
- Report: “Mathematics coming out of lockdown”
- Interview: Manuel del Pino (University of Bath, UK): “For me, mathematics means beauty and harmony”
- Special report: May 12, Celebration of Women in Mathematics Day
- Portrait: Alexandre Anahori (ICMAT): “I think it’s almost mystical that you can predict the future with reasoning”
- She Does Maths: Evelyne Miot (Institut Fourier, CNRS, y Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
- Scientific review: “Resolution of non-local equations”
- Scientific review: “Fourier series in BMO with number theoretical implications”
- Tell me about your thesis: Ángela Capel Cuevas (Technical University of Munich and Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology)
- ICMAT News:
- Institutional:
- The ICMAT will receive the ‘Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence’ accreditation for the third time in a row
- José María Martell, new director of the ICMAT
- More than 2,000 people ask for Mathematics to be a compulsory subject in Baccalaureate courses
- The ICMAT to collaborate in the third edition of the STEM MatEsElla leadership programme
- Awards:
- María Ángeles García Ferrero, chosen as the best national mathematician in 2019
- Diego Alonso Orán, one of the winners of the RSME and BBVA Foundation Vicent Caselles Prizes
- Jezabel Curbelo Hernández and Rafael Granero Belinchón receive the SeMa Antonio Valle Prize for young researchers in the field of applied mathematics
- Results:
- Algorithms to protect self-driving cars against hoaxes and to detect fake news
- The ICMAT awarded two Marie Curie grants
- Scientific activities:
- Expert in number theory, Samir Siksek (University of Warwick), gives a UAM-ICMAT colloquium
- International experts on financial mathematics debate crisis management
- Enrollment open to the ICMAT JAE School of introduction to mathematical research
- Outreach:
- ICMAT researcher Leonardo Colombo participates in the “We’re scientists. Get us out of here!” competition
- June 28th, LGTBIQ+ Pride International Day
- Live broadcasts on Instagram of meetings held to discuss university education in mathematics
- Mathematical education, a first-order challenge
- Start of the new season of the outreach series “Mathematical Revolutions
The ICMAT joins the activities for February 11th, 2020 International Day of Women and Girls in Science
