Inside ICMAT

From 23 to 30 July, the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2026 was carried out in Philadelphia (United States). This is the most important gathering of the discipline worldwide. Organized by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) every four years, ICM brought together nearly 5,000 mathematicians from around the world at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Among the event’s protagonists were 14 Spaniards, including three ICMAT members: Javier Parcet and David Pérez García, as invited speakers —who talked about the Connes rigidity conjecture and the classification of quantum phases of matter, respectively— and Ágata Timón,  participant on a panel about public communication of mathematics.

A paper by David Ríos Insua, CSIC research professor at ICMAT, has been awarded in the 7th edition of the Spanish Society of Statistics, Operations Research and Data Science (SEIO) – BBVA Foundation Awards 2026, in the category of Best contribution from Statistics and Operations Research to Data Science. The award recognises the article “Adversarial Machine Learning: Bayesian Perspectives,” co-authored with Roi Naveiro (CUNEF Universidad), Víctor Gallego (Komorebi AI and IE University) and Jason Poulos (Harvard Medical School), and published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, a high-impact statistics journal. 

From 13 to 17 July 2026, CUNEF University and ICMAT hosted in Madrid the 2nd International Workshop “New Advances in Contact and Symplectic Hamiltonian Dynamics”, a meeting that brought together researchers from Spain, China, and Singapore specializing in geometric mechanics and related areas. The workshop’s aim was to explore in depth the formal aspects of symplectic and contact Hamiltonian systems, as well as the associated stochastic processes and their applications.

On 8 July 2026, ICMAT welcomed the 23 participants in the UAMMAT Mathematics Summer Camp, organised by the Department of Mathematics at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). The students, who were in the first year of the Spanish Bachillerato, had the opportunity to discover what everyday life is like at a centre of excellence dedicated to cutting-edge mathematical research.

• David Martín de Diego, a scientific researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and ICMAT, took part in the Aula Ciencia event, organised by the association of scientists Apadrina la Ciencia, MERK company and the UAM Faculty of Education on 29 June 2026. During the event, researchers from CSIC and UAM’s Cantoblanco Campus delivered workshops for primary school teachers, with the aim of helping them incorporate these activities into their lessons.

• Glasgow (UK) and Dublin (Ireland) have been selected by the 20th General Assembly of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) to host the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2030.