ICMAT Newsletter #20 - 2024
October at ICMAT
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Hello!
Here is our 20th ICMAT monthly newsletter, which includes the latest news and forthcoming activities related to the Institute and its members.
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Interview: Alan Reid (Rice Universit), co-director with Martin Bridson of one of the new Severo Ochoa Laboratories programme
“Collaboration is now the norm, with face-to-face interaction crucial for mathematical creativity”
Alan Reid is an expert in low-dimensional topology, hyperbolic varieties and geometric group theory. Image: Iñigo de Amescua / ICMAT
Alan Reid, along with Martin Bridson, is co-director of one of the new Severo Ochoa Laboratories programme. The Scottish mathematician has been a professor and has been the chair –since 2018– of the Department of Mathematics at Rice University (USA). In addition to his contributions to low-dimensional topology, Reid has achieved influential results in hyperbolic manifolds and geometric group theory.
Read an interview with Reid on this link.
Numerical sequences that hold mysteries of the universe and mathematics
Motohico Mulase is an expert in integrable systems, complex algebraic geometry, complex analysis, mathematical physics and differential geometry. Image: Mulase.
Motohico Mulase (University of California Davis (USA)) was the speaker at the ICMAT-UAM-UCM-UC3M Joint Colloquium on 11 October 2024. His talk, ‘Miraculous Integer Sequences’, explored two fascinating sequences of integers: that of Catalan numbers and that of Gromov-Witten invariants of genus 0 of a certain algebraic variety. In them, there are connections with cosmology, quantum physics and the mysterious Riemann zeta function. The event can be watched online on the following link.
Before his lecture, he presented some insights into this exciting field of research in this article.
Young researchers take centre stage at the first meeting of SOMMa centres and units in mathematics
The organising committee of the meeting together with Javier Aramayona, director of the ICMAT, and Carme Cascante, director of the CRM. Image: CRM.
The Math SOMMa Junior Meeting was held at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) from 2 to 4 October 2024. This was a forum dedicated to researchers in the early stages of their careers, both predoctoral and postdoctoral, promoted by the mathematics research institutions recognised with the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu awards: ICMAT, BCAM, IMAG, CIMNE and the CRM. The programme included five plenary sessions given by scientists from these institutions (José Manuel Conde spoke on behalf of the ICMAT). In addition, there was a wide range of talks on various current research topics, a poster session and a series of complementary activities.
Two days dedicated to group theory
Image: Íñigo de Amescua/ICMAT
On 17 and 18 October 2024 the ICMAT hosted the eighth edition of the Groups in Madrid conference, devoted to recent developments in the field of group theory. On this occasion, the meeting dealt with new results and open problems on hyperbolic Coxeter groups, fast generation of algebraic structures, algebraic varieties on free groups, homotopy groups, generating sets in finite groups or binary actions of almost simple groups.
More info
SteMatEsElla mentoring programme launches its sixth edition
Stematesella participants. Imagen: Stematesella.
On 11 October 2024, the sixth edition of the steMatEsElla programme was launched in an event that took place at ICMAT. This event was also the closing of the previous edition. The aim of this initiative is to ‘encourage and support the academic and professional growth of women in the field of mathematics and other STEM disciplines’, through the mentoring of women students, both undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students, by established professionals in these areas. steMatEsElla is organised by the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society (RSME) and the Spanish Association of Executives and Consultants (EJE&CON), with the collaboration of ICMAT, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) and Ackermann International.
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Mallorca brought together nearly 70 Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu centres and units of excellence in the 8th edition of 100xScience
From 9 to 11 October 2024, 100xCiencia was held in Palma de Mallorca, an annual event that brings together representatives of the 68 centres and units accredited with the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu seal of excellence, including ICMAT. The main objective of this event is to forge interdisciplinary collaborations and exchange experiences. The programme included both activities open to the general public and those restricted to the SOMMa community (Alliance of Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu centres and units).
More info
New members at ICMAT
In October 2024, the following people have joined the Institute:
New predoctoral researchers:
New postdoctoral researchers:
- Marco Linton
- Clara Torres
New management staff:
New technical staff:
Currently visiting ICMAT
- Andoni de Arriba de La Hera (UNED), until 31/12/2024
- Loïc Davalo (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France), until 20/12/2024
- Dominik Francoeur (UAM), until 31/12/2024
- Elizabeth Gillaspy (University of Montana, USA), until 31/07/2025
- Xueting Jin (School of Mathematical Sciences Capital Normal University of China), until 01/07/2025
- Caleb Jonathan Jonker (Toronto University, Canada), until 30/11/2024
- King Leung Lee (University of Montpellier), until 04/11/2024
- David Meyer (University Münster), until 16/12/2024
- Andrés Julián Moreno Ospina (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil), until 28/02/2025
- Daniel Isaac Puignau Chacón (King's College London, UK), until 05/08/2025
- Michael Shub (University New York, USA), until 31/12/2024
- Liangchen Zou (University of Science and Technology of China), until 15/04/2025
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:
12/11/2024. Joint Mathematics Colloquium: "Spectral sets, weak tiling and Fuglede`s conjecture", Máté Matolcsi (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics)
04/11, 07/11, 11/11 and 14/11/2024. Minicourse: "Analytic, geometric, and topological methods for Sobolev mappings to manifolds"
05/11/2024. Science and Technology Week 2024 - Talk: "Números que brilla: matemáticas en imágenes cotidianas", Fernando Chamizo (ICMAT-UAM)
06/11/2024. Science and Technology Week 2024 - Workshop: "Los límites de la computación", Laura Castilla Castellano (ICMAT-UCM)
08/11, 15/11, 22/11, 29/11, 09/12, 13/12/2024, 10/01 and 17/01/2024. Bridson-Reid Lab Reading Group: "De Picasso a Gromov. Introducción al cubulismo"
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 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. The position is for a duration of 2 years, with a start date after September 1, 2025. Shortlisted candidates may be invited for individual interviews in due course.
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. The primary focus of this position is to rigorously address fundamental questions concerning the existence, uniqueness, stability, and long-time behavior of the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations for incompressible fluids, as well as related mathematical models. The duration of the contract will be 2 years with a starting date after September 1, 2025. Preselected applicants could be interviewed individually in due course.
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
Predoctoral Fellowship for Knowledge Generation Projects 2023 @ ICMAT. The research line of this FPI grant is framed in the area of mathematical analysis of non-linear and non-local partial differential equations, with a specific focus on the formation and propagation of singularities in fluid dynamics. The project will focus on the theoretical and numerical study of the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, which play a crucial role in the understanding of fundamental physical phenomena such as tornado formation and turbulence. This project offers the opportunity to address open and challenging problems in the area, with theoretical applications of great scientific relevance.
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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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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