IMSA

🌟 Upcoming Conference Alert! 🌟

Join us at the Characteristic Classes of Singular Varieties and Their Applications Conference from November 3-9, 2024 at the University of Miami (Room 528B, Ungar Building)! 🏛️

Hosted by José Seade, this event brings together leading mathematicians from around the world to discuss the latest advances in characteristic classes and their applications to singular varieties. 📊✨

📅 Dates: Nov 3-9, 2024
📍 Location: University of Miami + Zoom (Live Video)

Key speakers include: 🔹 Paolo Aluffi (Florida State)
🔹 Leonardo Mihalcea (Virginia Tech)
🔹 Irma Pallares (KU Leuven)
🔹 Jörg Schürmann (Münster)
🔹 Andrzej Weber (Warsaw)
🔹 Laurentiu Maxim (Wisconsin-Madison)
..and many more! 🚀

Don’t miss out—register now! https://umcas.wufoo.com/forms/mdfx0ti17b7qgp/

🎉 Exciting Announcement! 🎉

Join us for a special workshop on Differential Equations and Mathematical Biology in honor of Professor Shigui Ruan's 60th birthday! 🥳This event will take place at the Lakeside Village, located in the University of Miami from November 23-25, 2024.

📅 Dates: November 23-25, 2024
📍 Location: Lakeside Village, University of Miami
🔗 Zoom Link: (https://miami.zoom.us/j/97058496487?pwd=jIeRAuNBGuelajyinRDPExFpH9Mg7f.1)

This workshop is sponsored by IMSA, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Simons Foundation, and the Department of Mathematics. It’s a fantastic opportunity to celebrate Professor Ruan's contributions to the field. Don't miss out on this inspiring event! 🎓📈

See you there, whether in person or on Zoom! 👩‍💻👨‍💻

ICMAT & IMSA Joint Event: Enhancing Mathematical Bridges between Spain and Latin America

Spain and Latin America share a profound heritage, deeply rooted in a multifaceted tapestry of economic, cultural, historical, and linguistic relations. Through this intricate web of connections, both regions continue to nurture a relationship characterized by cooperation, mutual respect, and shared aspirations.

Within this context, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT) launches, in collaboration with the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA), the new program “Enhancing mathematical bridges between Spain and Latin America”. This initiative seeks to formalize and strengthen cooperation between the mathematical communities of Spain and Latin America, establishing a research platform which will facilitate knowledge exchange, as well as contribute to the creation of a new generation of researchers in both regions.

Some of the main objectives of this scheme are:

An exchange program to allow Latin American researchers to conduct visits at ICMAT.
A series of thematic conferences and workshops, organized in collaboration with IMSA.
Opportunities for young Latin American researchers to take part in ICMAT’s training programs, at a doctoral and postdoctoral level.
It is envisaged that these activities will commence in the year 2025.

The program launch took place at the Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas on Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Presenatations by:
- Jose María Martell (Scientific Vice-President of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC))
- Javier Aramayona (Director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT))
- Ludmil Katzarkov (Director of the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA), University of Miami)
- Yuri Tschinkel (Director of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, Simons Foundation)

Join us this upcoming Thursday and Friday for a fascinating seminar by Martha Gabriela Araujo Pardo, President of the Mexican Mathematical Society!
As well as being president on this prestigious society, she is also a researcher at the Institute of Math at UNAM and a Level III Position at the National System of Researchers of CONACYT.

Her topics will be; Generalized polygons, cages and complete colorings of graphs & Bipartite biregular cages: block designs and generalized polygons

For more information, please visit the Frontiers Seminar Page at: https://www.imsa.miami.edu/news/frontiers/index.html

This past April, IMSA held the Mathematical Aspects of Topological Insulators Conference at the University of Miami.
Please visit the following link to see all of our talks on this conference!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZut3oE4FI0zTTutYjpUmEcDv3iSJCFDf

IMSA Mission Statement:

“The Roadmap to Our New Century” is the strategic plan of the University of Miami as it approaches its centennial in 2025. Recognizing that Miami is effectively the de facto capital of Latin America and the Caribbean is a pervading theme informing its Roadmap Initiative. Indeed, as noted on the University website: “Our location in Miami gives us a distinct geographic capacity to connect institutions, individuals, and ideas across the Americas and throughout the world.” The notion of exploiting this advantage to establish a hemispheric center in mathematics and its applications at the University of Miami is one that has been in the ether here for over 15 years. Now after a substantial buildup on multiple fronts and thanks to an initial award from the Simons Foundation of $2,000,000 and enthusiastic support from the University, we have inaugurated the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA) at the University of Miami. Ludmil Katzarkov is Executive Director with a preeminent Scientific Advisory Committee consisting of Phillip Griffiths, Simon Levin, Maxime Kontsevich, Richard Stanley, Ernesto Lupercio, Marcelo Viana, Mina Teicher, Bernardo Uribe, Carolina Araujo, Moira Chas, Gabiela Olmedo-Alvarez.

The mission of IMSA is threefold: (1) To foster and facilitate research in mathematics and its applications across the Americas; (2) To disseminate advances from this research broadly and interactively to the global mathematical and scientific communities; and (3) To build national and international capacity in the mathematical science workforce by providing targeted educational opportunities at key points in human intellectual development from middle school through postdoctoral training.

IMSA fits into two of the major components of the University of Miami’s Roadmap Initiative: (1) The Hemispheric University Platform in which “the University will create a platform to leverage its unique geographic position to promote student exchange and collaborative research through a consortium of select institutions;” and (2) STEM @ UM where “the University will make strategic investments in fundamental science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through a coordinated set of interdisciplinary University-wide institutes.”