ICMAT Newsletter #21 - 2024
November 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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Javier Aramayona, director of ICMAT, joins the presidency team of the SOMMa network of centres and units of excellence
Members of the SOMMa Presidency. From left to right: Antonio Molina (CBGP), new president of the Alliance, Isabel Márquez, first vice-president (IAA-CSIC), and Javier Aramayona (ICMAT), current second vice-president. Image: SOMMa
The SOMMa Alliance, made up of Spanish research centres and units accredited with the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu seal of excellence by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, including ICMAT, has renewed its presidency for the next two years. Javier Aramayona, director of ICMAT and CSIC member, joins as second vice-president, along with Antonio Molina, scientific director of the Severo Ochoa programme at the Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (UPM-INIA/CSIC), as president, and Isabel Márquez, scientific director of the Severo Ochoa programme at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), as first vice-president. Aramayona is the first mathematician to form part of the SOMMa presidency.
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Representatives of the Fields Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Shanghai visit ICMAT
A delegation from the Fields Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Shanghai (China) visited ICMAT. Image: Laura M. Iraola/ICMAT
A delegation from the Fields Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Shanghai (China) visited ICMAT on 22 November, with the aim of establishing collaboration and exchange programmes between the two institutions.
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Horizons of Mathematics, with Máté Matolcsi (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics)
Mosaics and spectra: the Fuglede conjecture
Máté Matolcsi is an expert in Fourier analysis, functional analysis and operator theory. Image courtesy of Matolcsi
Fuglede’s conjecture is a fascinating proposal: it seeks to characterise so-called spectral sets –which appear in the area of analysis– by means of a geometrical property –tracing mathematical mosaics–. In 2003, thirty years after it was first proposed, and to the astonishment of the scientific community, Fields Medalist Terence Tao found an example showing that it was not true. Shortly afterwards, Máté Matolcsi (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary) and Mihail Kolountzakis (University of Crete, Greece) finally disproved the conjecture in its general statement. However, in some interesting cases, it could still be true. Matolcsi discussed the latest developments on this question at the ICMAT-UAM-UCM-UC3M Joint Colloquium on 12 November, that is now available on YouTube.
Read the full article on this link.
Annual meeting of the Geometry and Physics Thematic Network at ICMAT
Members of the RTFG do research in differential, algebraic and symplectic geometry, topology and group theory and their relation to various areas of theoretical physics. The picture shows the detailed structure of two stable vortex knots with different morphology. Image: Julien Garaud
From 26 to 29 November ICMAT hosted the Meeting of the Geometry and Physics Thematic Network (RTGF), where more than 40 researchers discussed the latest advances in numerous problems in which these two disciplines interact. The main objective of the event, which coincides with the main purpose of the RTGF, is to promote communication, exchange and excellence of research groups in Spain, with wide international projection, working in the field of interaction between geometry and physics, specifically differential geometry, algebraic and symplectic geometry, topology and group theory and their relationship with various areas of theoretical physics.
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Enhancing mathematical bridges between Spain and Latin America programme. Interview with Miguel Walsh (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, CONICET), Latin American Research Award in Mathematics IMSA 2024 – Category: Young Mathematician. Salem Prize 2024, from the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
‘[In high school] I discovered that there were open problems and from then on I knew that I wanted to dedicate myself to solving them’
Miguel Walsh during his participation in Mathematical Waves Miami (USA). Image: Laura M. Iraola/ICMAT
Miguel Walsh (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and OCNICET) is a specialist in ergodic theory and analytic number theory, areas to which he has made outstanding contributions. For this, he has just been awarded the prestigious Salem Prize 2024 by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). It has been a year full of awards for the scientist: he began the year with the Latin American Mathematics Research Prize in the category of young mathematician, awarded by the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA), with which ICMAT has set up a collaboration programme. In September he also received the Umalca Recognition Award from the Mathematical Union of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Read an interview with him on this link.
The music of chaos, live
Laura Farré Rozada gave a lecture-recital about music and chaos theory
On 2 December, Laura Farré Rozada, mathematician, pianist, researcher and disseminator, gives live expression to the connection between music and mathematics in the lecture-recital ‘Chaos: from theory to music’, which takes place at Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. The event is part of the series Matemáticas en la Residencia, organised by ICMAT, with the collaboration of the Deputy Vice-Presidency for Scientific Culture of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Residencia de Estudiantes.
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Mathematics of everyday images and infinite computers in ICMAT’s Science and Technology Week
 
Fernando Chamizo (up) and Laura Castilla during their activities. Images: Laura M. Iraola/ICMAT
Currently visiting ICMAT
- David Meyer (U. Münster), until 16/12/2024
- Loïc Davalo (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France), until 20/12/2024
- Andoni de Arriba de La Hera (UNED), until 31/12/2024
- Néstor Blázquez Hernán-Gómez (U. Bonn), until 31/12/2024
- Dominik Francoeur (UAM), until 31/12/2024
- Michael Shub (City College of the City University New York, USA), until 31/12/2024
- 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
- 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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Postdoctoral position in Functional Analysis at ICMAT. Post-doctoral position at ICMAT in the Analysis research group under the AEI-DFG project “Operator Theory on Free Banach lattices”. The successful applicant will work under the supervision of Pedro Tradacete. Topics of research associated to the position include Banach lattices, Banach spaces and operator theory, but candidates with experience in functional analysis in a broader sense, are also encouraged to apply.
Deadline: 15/12/2024
Postdoctoral position in Arakelov geometry at ICMAT. ICMAT offers a one year postdoctoral position in Arakelov geometry, non Archimedean analysis, hybrid spaces or related areas in arithmetic geometry. This position is funded by the project PID2022-142024NB-I00 “Symmetries and invariants in geometry and arithmetic”.
Deadline: 15/12/2024
ICMAT Postdoc SO 2024 – Geometric Group Theory. ICMAT is offering a postdoctoral position for researchers in Geometric Group Theory with an outstanding academic record, who are interested in pursuing their research career at the Bridson-Reid Laboratory at ICMAT.
Deadline: 30/12/2024
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
COFUND-ALLIES postdocs @ICMAT. ICMAT offers 2 cofund ALLIES postdocs on Machine Learning for the period 2025-2026. One of them will be in the area of Adversarial Machine Learning and Cybersecurity, cosupervised by David Rios Insua and David Arroyo. The second one will be in the area of Collective behavior in Bayesian agents, cosupervised by David Rios Insua and Gonzalo de Polavieja.
Deadline: 31/12/2024
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)
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