ICMAT Newsletter #30 - 2025
September at ICMAT
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Hello!
Here is the ICMAT monthly newsletter, which includes the latest news and forthcoming activities related to the Institute and its members.
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The Little Institute of Mathematics of ICMAT begins a new academic year
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Participants of PIM at the closing event of the 2024/2025 course. Photo: Laura M. Iraola/ICMAT
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From 19 September, 150 students aged between 12 and 18 meet every Friday of the school year to enjoy mathematics at the Little Institute of Mathematics (Pequeño Instituto de Matemáticas, PIM) of ICMAT, from 17:30 to 20:00, at the Institute’s premises. The activity focuses on tackling, collaboratively, challenging mathematical problems that require more than simply applying a formula.
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A mathematical model identifies the optimal strategies for the early detection of colorectal cancer
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Medical illustration of Colorectal Cancer – Polyp. Image: iStock
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Daniel Corrales and David Ríos, CSIC researchers at ICMAT, together with Marino J. González from the University of La Rioja, have developed a mathematical model to identify a better strategy for the early detection of colorectal cancer. The study, published in Computers in Biology and Medicine, shows that a strategy for screening based on a more personalised approach increases the number of early-stage cases detected, while using the same resources as the current one.
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The mathematics of electronic music and fluid dynamics, at the European Researchers’ Night 2025
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ICMAT offered two experimental workshops for all audiences in the European Researchers' Night. Image: Laura M. Iraola/ICMAT
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The science carried out in European centres and laboratories took to the streets on 26 September for the European Researchers’ Night. ICMAT joint once again the CSIC centres and institutes of the Cantoblanco Campus (Madrid) to organise “CSIC Calls You Tonight”, a major science fair that took place, for the second consecutive year, at the Espacio Fundación Telefónica, located on Madrid’s Gran Vía.
As part of the programme, ICMAT offered two experimental workshops for all audiences: “Mathematics in Motion: A Look at the World of Fluids”, given by Andrés Laín Sanclemente, José Antonio Lucas and Mencía Reborido, predoctoral researchers at the Institute; and “Mathematics of Electronic Music”, by Carlos García Meixide, predoctoral researcher at ICMAT.
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Interview with Babel Raïssa Guemdjo Kamdem (University of Douala, Cameroon), beneficiary of the Science by Women programme of the Women for Africa Foundation
Babel Raïssa Guemdjo Kamdem: “I hope to serve as an inspiration to other women to get involved in STEM disciplines”
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Since May, Babel Raïssa Guemdjo has been undertaking a research stay at the ICMAT thanks to the ‘Science by Women’ programme of the Women for Africa Foundation. Image: Laura M. Iraola/ICMAT
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Babel Raïssa Guemdjo Kamdem has been a lecturer and researcher at the Advanced School of Economic and Commercial Sciences of the University of Douala (Cameroon) since 2021. In May 2025, she joined the DataLab group at ICMAT, led by David Ríos (ICMAT-CSIC), through the scientific cooperation programme Science by Women, run by the Women for Africa Foundation, which this year celebrates its 10th edition. Guemdjo will continue her research at the Institute until next October on a project focused on data analysis, machine learning and time series.
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- Babel Raïssa Guemdjo Kamdem (Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques. Porto-Novo, Bénin), until 23/10/2025
- Azuaje Hidalgo, Rafael Leonardo
- Rafael Leonardo Azuaje Hidalgo (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana México), until 25/10/2025
- Eero Saksman (University of Helsinki), until 26/10/2025
- Mischa Elkner (ISTA, Austria), until 23/12/2025
- Giulia Cardoso Fantato (Universidade de Sao Paulo), until 31/01/2026
- Aram Harrow (MIT), until 28/06/2026
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ICMAT is organising the following key activity in the coming months:
MIP Activities
Course
Furthermore, ICMAT hosts weekly thematic seminars where researchers from each area share their latest results.
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ERC call: Starting Grant 2026. ERC Starting Grants are aimed at researchers who are setting up their own independent research team or programme. They fund projects at the frontier of all areas of knowledge. Applicants must demonstrate the innovative nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. The scientific excellence of the project and the Principal Investigator is the sole evaluation criterion.
Deadline: 14/10/2025
Banco Santander: Financial Aid for Pre-doctoral Research Staff 2025. The Santander Pre-doctoral Grant Programme offers 1,532 grants of €2,000 each, with the aim of supporting pre-doctoral research staff by promoting their development through grants for training, mobility, supplements to pre-doctoral contracts, research awards, grants for the publication of theses or in high-impact journals, or other expenses arising from their research work.
Deadline: 15/10/2025
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Keep in touch
Have we forgotten anything? Do you want to add any news, visit or upcoming activity? Please, do not hesitate to write us at communication@icmat.es and we will include the information in the next newsletter.
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