July at the ICMAT

On 14 July, Ana Bravo, profesora titular of the Department of Mathematics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), was ratified as deputy director of the centre by the Comisión Rectora. Bravo, an expert in commutative algebra and its relationship with algebraic geometry, has been a member of the ICMAT since its creation and has been, from 2016 to 2023, chair of its Equality Commission.
 
Together with her, the ICMAT board of directors is made up of Javier Aramayona —científico titular of CSIC—, as director; Ángel Castro —also científico titular of CSIC—, as director of the Department of Fundamental Mathematics; and Piergiulio Tempesta —profesor titular at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid—, as director of the Department of Applied Mathematics.

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ICMAT researchers receive one of the FBBVA and SEIO operational research awards

A recent work by David Ríos Insua –profesor de investigación of CSIC at the ICMAT, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and AXA-ICMAT Chair–, together with Tahir Ekin (Texas State University, USA), Alberto Torres-Barrán –associate professor at IE University and former ICMAT postdoctoral researcher– and Roi Naveiro –associate professor at CUNEF and former ICMAT pre and postdoctoral researcher–, has been recognized with the award for the methodological contribution in operations research from the BBVA Foundation and the Spanish Society for Operations Research (SEIO).

The article, “Augmented probability simulation methods for sequential games”, was published in the European Journal of Operational Research last April.

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Interview with Daniel Kráľ (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
"Discrete optimization interconnects beautiful mathematics with algorithms and, eventually, with intriguing real world problems"

Daniel Kráľ (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) was the speaker in the last ICMAT-UAM-UC3M-UCM joint colloquium, “Analytic approach to extremal combinatorics”, which took place on 23 June at the Department of Mathematics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The researcher focused on his most recent work, which studies the interaction between Ramsey's theory – a “set of results that establishes the impossibility of complete chaos” – and extreme combinatorics.

We interviewed Kráľ on the occasion of the colloquium, you can read what he told us on this link.

The colloquium is also available on YouTube. 
 

More than 50 students participate in the fourth edition of the Stematesella mentoring programme

In July, the fourth edition of Stematesella came to an end. This is a mentoring programme for female undergraduate and postgraduate students in mathematics and other related disciplines, promoted by the Asociación Española de Ejecutivos y Consejeras (EJE&CON), the Real Sociedad Matemática Española (RSME), the ICMAT, the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) and Ackermann International. The programme puts students in contact with science, technology, engineering and mathematics professionals, both from the academic field –researchers and teachers from the RSME and ICMAT, among other institutions– and from the business world –executives and advisors from EJE&CON–, through periodic tutoring meetings.

In this edition, 55 couples have participated, and 45 have completed the course. The programme has also included talks on career opportunities in mathematics and engineering. On 4 July 2023, the closing ceremony of the IV edition of the steMatEsElla programme took place at the ICMAT auditorium.

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100 experts in group theory and topology meet at El Barco de Ávila

From 3 to 7 July 2023, the international congress Group Actions and Low-Dimensional Topology took place in El Barco de Ávila. It brought together more than 100 researchers of various nationalities, mainly from the United States and the European Union. This was a scientific activity of the thematic programme of the ICMAT Ian Agol Laboratory.

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20 high school students from the Comunidad de Madrid visit the ICMAT as part of the UAMMat summer mathematics camp

From 29 June to 7 July 2023, the fourth UAMMat summer math camp was held at the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The first day, the group of 20 students – who have just finished 1st year of Bachillerato in the Community of Madrid– visited the ICMAT. Javier Aramayona, director of the ICMAT, offered an introduction to the research career in mathematics –emphasizing the role of the ICMAT, its scholarship programs, etc.–, which gave rise to an extensive round of questions from the student body. Afterwards, Pablo Hidalgo and Joaquín Domínguez de Tena, pre-doctoral researchers at ICMAT, gave the workshop: “Do you really know how to count?”.

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2023: Thematic research programmes and one thematic year at the ICMAT

This year the Institute hosts several thematic programmes and one thematic year –each one including conferences, and other activities– dedicated to various research topics. Here you have the current ones: 

• Thematic Period on PDEs. Diffusion, Geometry, Probability and Free Boundaries. 06/2023 – 12/2023
• Bayesian Machine Learning Year.

Currently visiting the ICMAT

• Francesco Sala (Università di Pisa, Italy), until 04/08/2023
• Sara Abdelsalam (The British University in Egypt), until 15/08/2023
• Eber Gustavo Velázquez Galván (Universidad de Guadalajara, México), until 29/08/2023
• Carlos E. González Guillén (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, UPM), until 30/08/2023
• Víctor Manuel Jiménez Morales (UNED), until 31/08/2023
• Alberto Vergel Otero (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), until 29/12/2023
• Manuel Lainz (CUNEF), until 31/12/2023
• Edmundo José Huertas Cejudo (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares), until 24/01/2024

You have more information about the people who are visiting the ICMAT here.

20/09/2023 - 22/09/2023. Encuentro de la Red de EDP no locales y aplicaciones

28/05/2023 - 20/12/2023. Thematic Period on PDEs. Diffusion, Geometry, Probability and Free Boundaries

29/09/2023. Joint Mathematics Colloquium (ICMAT-UAM-UC3M-UCM), Yao Yao (National University of Singapore)

29/09/2023. La Noche Europea de las y los Investigadores 2023. "Todo ciencia. La Noche del CSIC en el 12"

Convocatoria de ayudas María de Guzmán 2023. The Ministry of Science, through the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), allocates a budget of 6 million euros to promote access to scientific research for research staff in Spain. It has two lines of action: 1.- Management and measurement of research results: by promoting the use of multidisciplinary bibliographic reference databases with citations and impact that allow optimal management and measurement of research results; 2.- Open science and interoperability of institutional digital infrastructures: aimed at improving technological training, quality and interoperability of institutional infrastructures for the dissemination, storage, preservation and management of scientific information.
Deadline: 11 August 2023

9th Edition of Science By Women, by Mujeres por África Foundation. This programme is aimed at selecting 28 postdoctoral African women scientists to be integrated, during six months, in 26 top research Spanish centres in the following areas: health and biomedicine, agriculture and food security, water, energy and climatic change. The programme’s ultimate goal is to enable African women researchers to play a leading role in the transition of Africa to a knowledge-based and innovation-led economy.
Deadline: 30 September 2023

Call for Actions Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Doctoral Net-works (DN) of the Horizon Europe Program (HE). The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks (DN) of the Horizon Europe (HE) have as main objective to promote international, intersectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration plinar for the training of highly qualified doctors, as well as stimulating creativity, the spirit entrepreneurship and innovation inside and outside Europe.
Deadline: 28 November 2023

Programa de Retorno del Talento. The Ramón Areces Foundation has made public the call for the return of talent, whose objective is to facilitate the return to Spain of scientists already consolidated abroad, so that they can develop a relevant research project for a period of five years, integrating into a public institution. of Spanish research.
Deadline: 15 September 2023 

Programa de ayudas para el fomento de la cultura científica, tecnológica y de la innovación 2023. The Ministry of Science, through the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), allocates a budget of 5 million euros to finance communication and dissemination projects of public and private entities. The lines of action of this edition of the call for the promotion of scientific culture and innovation are the following: a) Science and technology social communication projects; b) Annual programme of activities of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Units, specialized in scientific journalism, dissemination and other scientific culture activities; c) Science Fairs, in which young non-university students, with the help of their teachers, exhibit experimental projects carried out in schools; d) Singular Projects.
Deadline: 10 October 2023

Updating of the planned calendar of the calls of the State Agency Research. The objective of this document is to inform the scientific-technical community of the planning of the calls in progress that have not yet been resolved and those that will be published soon.

Here there is a list of some articles related to the Institute, published in July 2023 on the media.

Café y Teoremas, section coordinated by the ICMAT in El País.

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