Lie-Størmer Center

Mathematics and the mathematical sciences lie at the heart of how we understand the world — one of humanity’s greatest intellectual achievements. The ability to think mathematically belongs to all of us, independent of gender, ethnicity, or culture. Yet this is still not as visible as it should be.

That is why we are happy that Norges forskningsråd supports us through the project "Equations for Arctic Equality: Advancing Gender Balance in Math and Physics" at UiT Norges arktiske universitet which will allow us to make mathematics and natural sciences more inclusive, more visible, and truly open to everyone.

Gender Balance, Diversity and Inclusion in Norwegian Research The purpose of this call is to fund projects that will develop innovative measures aimed at gender balance, diversity (including Sami) and inclusio...

Ja, vi feirer matematikk.
Fordi det kanskje er menneskeåndens største prestasjon, fordi det er en sentral del av vår kultur, og fordi det er noe som forener mennesker på tvers av kulturer.

Og å feire, akkurat som matematikk, gjør vi best i fellesskap. Derfor var vi både glade og takknemlige for at statsråden for høyere utdanning og forskning Sigrun Aasland, den franske ambassadøren, kolleger, studenter og skoleelever feiret sammen med oss. Som statsråden sa: I den tiden vi lever i, er det viktigere enn noen gang å feire kreftene som kan skape en bedre fremtid – og matematikken har kraften til nettopp det.

Med musikk, kaffe og kake – og selvfølgelig en vakker reise gjennom matematikken med Marcus du Sautoy.

Vi feiret også at matematikken ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet har fått betydelig støtte fra Trond Mohn forskningsstiftelse, Tromsø Forskningsstiftelse, Norges forskningsråd, SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge og Direktoratet for høyere utdanning og kompetanser. Når privat og offentlig finansiering samarbeider så godt, kan det skapes noe virkelig verdifullt.

Og vår visjon om et Matematikkens hus i Tromsø for Norge har i dag kommet et skritt videre – takket være fellesskap, tillit og troen på matematikkens betydning.

UiT Norges arktiske universitet Universitetet i Bergen Tromsø kommune

Our traditional "Mørketidens Mattemøte" brought our colleagues from Universitetet i Bergen, The University of Sheffield , KU Leuven and EPFL to a nice two days workshop at UiT Norges arktiske universitet. Big thanks to Trond Mohn forskningsstiftelse and Tromsø Forskningsstiftelse for making also the eighth of these meetings possible.

https://smf.emath.fr/actualites-smf/icm-2026-motion-du-ca

ICM 2026 - motion du CA | Société Mathématique de France La SMF ne tiendra pas de stand à l'ICM de Philadelphie.

Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI | Quanta Magazine Mathematicians have started to prepare for a profound shift in what it means to do mathematics.

Best wishes for peaceful holidays and for a happy new year 2026.

The Centre for Sustainable, Risk-averse and Ethical AI (SURE-AI) invites applications for PhD and postdoctoral positions:

https://www.sure-ai.no/job-openings/

SURE-AI is one of Norway’s six national AI research centres, bringing together leading interdisciplinary research institutions and industry partners to advance the foundations and applications of responsible artificial intelligence. The centre offers a highly collaborative research environment, strong international networks, and close interaction between academia and industry, with a focus on sustainability, robustness, and ethical aspects of AI.

Job openings SURE-AI brings together top research and interdisciplinary thinking. We are looking for talented researchers to help us push the boundaries and develop the algorithms for a more sustainable, risk-averse and ethical AI.

What are Lie Groups?

In mathematics, ubiquitous objects called groups display nearly magical powers. Though they’re defined by just a few rules, groups help illuminate an astonishing range of mysteries. They can tell you which polynomial equations are solvable, for instance, or how atoms are arranged in a crystal.

And yet, among all the different kinds of groups, one type stands out. Identified in the early 1870s, Lie groups are crucial to some of the most fundamental theories in physics, and they’ve made lasting contributions to number theory and chemistry. The key to their success is the way they blend group theory, geometry and linear algebra.

What makes a Lie group special is that it can be visualized as a smooth, continuous shape called a manifold. Lie groups might look like a circle, or the surface of a doughnut, or a high-dimensional sphere. Some look even stranger: The group of all rotations of a ball in space, known to mathematicians as SO(3), is a six-dimensional tangle of spheres and circles.

The manifold nature of Lie groups has been an enormous boon to mathematicians and physicists.

🌐 Keep reading: https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-are-lie-groups-20251203/

The 2025 edition of the Lie–Størmer Colloquium will be held at SIMULA Research Laboratory in Oslo, bringing together leading researchers in mathematics, computer science, and artificial intelligence to explore the mathematical foundations of AI and related emerging directions.

https://sites.google.com/view/sure-ai-lsc2025/home

With the project “Stability, Hyperbolicity, and the Geometry of Zeros of Polynomials,” we are excited to build a new collaboration between UC Berkeley and UiT Norges arktiske universitet, made possible through the support of the Sather Center.

The future of mathematics? "These results demonstrate that large language model-guided evolutionary search can autonomously discover mathematical constructions that complement human intuition, at times matching or even improving the best known results, highlighting the potential for significant new ways of interaction between mathematicians and AI systems."

Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale AlphaEvolve is a generic evolutionary coding agent that combines the generative capabilities of LLMs with automated evaluation in an iterative evolutionary framework that proposes, tests, and refines algorithmic solutions to challenging scientific and practical problems. In this paper we showcase Al...

Tusen takk til SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge 💙

Vi er svært takknemlige for støtten til Arktisk Matematikk Talent-initiativet, som får støtte gjennom Samfunnsløftet.
Deres bidrag gjør det mulig for oss å gi unge talenter fra hele Nord-Norge muligheten til å utforske, utfordre og utvikle sine matematiske evner – sammen med forskere og lærere som brenner for faget.

Sammen løfter vi matematikk, nysgjerrighet og kunnskap i nord! 🧮❄️