ICMAT Newsletter #22 - 2024
December 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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Interview with Nigel Hitchin (University of Oxford), Ngô Bảu Châu (University of Chicago), chairs, and Oscar García-Prada (ICMAT-CSIC) coordinator of one of the ICMAT Severo Ochoa Laboratories
Hitchin: “An observation I stumbled upon by chance turned out to be a fundamental feature”
From left to right: Ngô Bảo Châu (University of Chicago), Oscar García-Prada (ICMAT-CSIC) and Nigel Hitchin (Oxford University) at the ICMAT. Image: Ágata Timón/ ICMAT
The Nigel Hitchin–Ngô Bảu Châu Laboratory is an initiative funded by the Severo Ochoa programme of ICMAT, which promotes international collaboration in research on various topics in geometry and mathematical physics. The Laboratory programme, coordinated by Oscar García-Prada, research professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at CMAT, and led by Nigel Hitchin, Emeritus Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford (UK), and Ngô Bảo Châu, Francis and Rose Yuen Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago (USA), addresses subjects such as the Hitchin system, Langlands duality, mirror symmetry, Higgs bundles, character varieties, higher Teichmüller theory, gauge theory, moduli spaces, and geometric structures.
Read an interview with them on this link.
Diego Córdoba (ICMAT-CSIC) becomes corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
Diego Córdoba enters at the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences. Image: Laura M. Iraola/ICMAT
Diego Córdoba, scientific director of the Severo Ochoa Program of Excellence at ICMAT, research professor of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at ICMAT and winner of the 2023 'Julio Rey Pastor' National Research Award, is one of the six new academicians of the Spanish Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences (RAC). Córdoba enters as a corresponding academician in the section of Mathematical Sciences, in the scientific area of partial differential equations. With this new appointment, six ICMAT members occupy seats in the RAC: Córdoba joins Manuel de León (ICMAT-CSIC), David Ríos (ICMAT-CSIC) and David Pérez García (ICMAT-UCM), full academicians; and Alberto Enciso (ICMAT-CSIC) and María Jesús Carro (ICMAT-UCM), corresponding academicians.
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The mathematics of black hole physics
Tomás Ortín gave the annual ICMAT-IFT Colloquium. Image: IFT
Tomás Ortín, researcher at Institute of Theoretical Physics (IFT), addressed the connection between theoretical physics and mathematics in the context of black holes on Friday 13 December at the Centre for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (CFTMAT). In his talk, ‘Some new results on symmetries, conserved charges and black-hole physics’, he showed how Noether’s Theorems and Gauss’s Laws explain the connection between conserved quantities and the thermodynamic properties of black holes. This was a joint event between IFT and ICMAT, which is held every year to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between physicists and mathematicians to tackle fundamental enigmas of nature.
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Interview with Laura Farré Rozada, mathematician, pianist, researcher and disseminator. Farré Rozada was a speaker at outreach series Matemáticas en la Residencia
“Exemplifying mathematical concepts with music is one of the most attractive ways to motivate those people who are not comfortable with the exact sciences”
Laura Farré Rozada before her lecture. Image: Residencia de Estudiantes
On 2 December, Farré Rozada set chaos theory to music within the framework of the informative series Mathematics at the Residence, organized by ICMAT, with the collaboration of the CSIC Vicepresidencia Adjunta de Cultura Científica (VACC) and the Residencia de Estudiantes. Farré Rozada combines music and mathematics in a totally organic way. So much so that this year she has published a doctoral thesis in which she formalizes a method for musical analysis, learning and memorization based on mathematics and computer engineering, which she herself uses to perform her repertoire from memory live on the piano. It is the result of five years of work at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, which has allowed her to unite two worlds about which she has always been fascinated.
Read an interview with Farré Rozada on this link.
The vision of harmonic analysis of mathematician Antonio Córdoba
Suprematistic intervention by Fernando Chamizo (ICMAT-UAM) in Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, image that appears in the monograph
Currently visiting ICMAT
- Diego Chicharro Gordo (King's College London), until 11/01/2025
- María Inés de Frutos Fernández (University of Bonn), until 22/01/2025
- Daniel Hernández Ruiperez (Universidad de Salamanca), until 10/01/2025
- Donghyeok Lim (Korea National University of Education), until 28/01/2025
- Asier López Gordón (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences), until 18/01/2025
- Luis Martínez Zoroa (Universidad de Basilea), until 12/01/2025
- Andrés Julián Moreno Ospina (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), until 28/02/2025
- Javier José Murgas Ibarra (University of Stavanger), until 14/03/2025
- Liangchen Zou (University of Science and Technology of China), until 15/04/2025
- Xueting Jin (School of Mathematical Sciences Capital Normal University of China), until 01/07/2025
- Elizabeth Gillaspy (University of Montana, USA), until 31/07/2025
- Rubén Izquierdo López (UNIR), until 31/07/2025
- Daniel Isaac Puignau Chacón (King's College London, UK), until 05/08/2025
You have more information about the people who are visiting ICMAT here.
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ICMAT is organising the following key activities in the coming months:
09/12, 13/12/2024, 10/01 and 17/01/2025. Bridson-Reid Lab Reading Group: "De Picasso a Gromov. Introducción al cubulismo"
20/01/2025. Round table: ‘STEAM Education under debate: knowledge and skills’
22/01, 24/01, 27/01, 31/01, 05/02, 07/02/2025. Course: Vertex algebras, semi-infinite forms and the boson-fermion correspondence, Jethro Van Ekeren (IMPA)
05-07/02/2025. Conference: Fluid mechanics at ICMAT
21-25/04/2025. Conference on Geometry at Large, an ICMAT-IMSA collaboration
05-09/05/2025. Advanced School on Mapping Class Groups, Surface Subgroups, Bundles, and Group Extensions
09-13/06/2025. 12th International Conference on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
Furthermore, ICMAT hosts weekly thematic seminars where researchers from each area share their latest results. You can find the complete programme of activities here.
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ICMAT-Postdoc - Geometric Integration of Field Theories. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT), Madrid, Spain seeks highly motivated candidates to fill a 2-year Postdoctoral position for the AEI-DFG project Discretization and optimal control of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian field theories. The project will be carried out in collaboration with our partner team at Institute of Applied Dynamics (LTD) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU).
Deadline: 15/01/2025
European Research Council (ERC) Call for proposals: Consolidator Grant 2025. ERC Consolidator Grants are aimed at researchers who are consolidating their own independent research team or programme. They fund projects at the frontier of all areas of knowledge.
Deadline: 14/01/2025 (at 5:00 pm)
ICMAT Postdoc SO 2024 – Analysis and PDEs. ICMAT is offering a postdoctoral position for outstanding researchers in Mathematics in the area of Analysis and PDEs who wish to further their careers at ICMAT. Candidates should have a strong background in fields related to Partial Differential Equations, with a particular emphasis on fluid dynamics.
Deadline: 15/02/2025
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ICMAT in the media
- "El espejismo de la mayoría", 10/12/2024, Ondacero
- "'El matemático David Martín explica el error que se comete con los números ‘feos’ en la Lotería de Navidad", 11/12/2024, Diario AS
- "La probabilidad de ganar la lotería" (from minute 31:30), 13/12/2024, Telediario 15h, TVE
- "50 años del cubo de Rubik: ¿Es posible resolverlo si está trucado?", 27/12/2024, Café y teoremas, Materia, El País
- "¡Feliz (1+2 +3+4+5+6+7+8+9)²!", 31/12/2024, Café y teoremas, Materia, El País
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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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