About us
The newly established International Center for Mathematical Sciences – Sofia is a dynamic research unit for developing and dissemination of cutting edge new directions in Mathematics. It is affiliated with the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences which is providing the infrastructure for the activities of the Center. The Center is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Bulgaria. The Activities of the ICMS – Sofia are carried out in collaboration with the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas at the University of Miami (IMSA) and Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow (HSE University). The ICMS-Sofia is also working in collaboration with Bulgarian universities and institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The Center was created following inspirational discussions with many members of the mathematical community in Bulgaria and the Bulgarian mathematical diaspora. In July 2019, ICMS-Sofia initiated its full-scale presence on the European mathematical scene with the full support of Acad. Julian Revalski, President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
The first director of ICMS-Sofia was Acad. Blagovest Sendov.
Simons Foundation
Grant 2022-2025
The Simons Foundation International, Ltd., (SFI) is funding a project of the International Center for Mathematical Sciences for the period 2022 – 2025.
The grant is aimed at supporting displaced scientists from Ukraine and other countries, organizing international scientific events with the participation of world-renowned and established mathematicians, and opening new research positions for young scientists.
Events and activities
The mission of the initiative Women in Mathematics in South-Eastern Europe is to promote the role of female mathematicians.
The mission will be achieved through series of annual conferences with the main goal to celebrate women in Mathematics, to disseminate new results and create new long-term collaborations among scientists in South-Eastern Europe. We hope Women in Mathematics of South-Eastern Europe will attract the attention of young researchers and researchers from less-favoured countries.
The inaugural conference of the initiative Women in Mathematics in South-Eastern Europe took place in Dec 2020. A special distinguished guest of the inaugural conference was prof. Mina Teicher from the Department of Mathematics and Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Prof Teicher is also Director of Emmy Noether Institute for Mathematics.
This meeting has as its main objective bringing together young Bulgarian mathematicians working all over the world.
We envision two main outcomes:
- enriching relations between young mathematicians working in Bulgaria and the Bulgarian mathematical diaspora;
- enhancing the professional development of young Bulgarian mathematicians by presenting new opportunities using the national and European scientific programmes.
The inaugural event of the series was held May 19-20 2021 and commemorated the brightest Bulgarian holiday the Day of Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture and the Slavоnic Alphabet May 24.
Selected Activities 2020-2021
Sendov’s conjecture for sufficiently high degree polynomials
by Terrence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
January 26, 2021
Colloquium talk in memory of Acad. Blagovest Sendov by Terence Tao, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA.) Winner of the Fields Medal 2006, the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2014, the Crafoord Prize 2012.
ICMS-IMSA Working Seminar
by Rene Mboro, Rodolfo Aguilar, ICMS-Sofia and IMSA |
August 20, 2021
Prof Rene Mboro gave a talk On determinantal cubic hypersurfaces (after Iliev-Manivel, Beauville,…) Prof Rodolfo Aguilar gave a talk on Quantum representations of fundamental groups of curves with infinite image.
News and Announcements
Non-Archimedean Uniformization and its Application, ICMS seminar talk by Jiachang Xu
In this talk, I will first introduce the basic facts and ideas of non-archimedean uniformization and discuss some applications in mirror symmetry if time is permitted.
Plank Problems: Discrete Geometry and Convexity, ICMS Seminar Talk by Alexander Polyanskiy
In my talk, I will overview progress in the area and its connection with other fields: theoretical computer science, number theory, and analysis. In particular, I will discuss a joint work with Zilin Jiang confirming Fejes Toth's long-standing zone conjecture and recent results with Alexey Glazyrin and Roman Karasev on a polynomial plank problem, a far-reaching generalization of Bang's theorem.
Variations of GIT-quotients of flag varieties, ICMS Seminar Talk by Valdemar Tsanov
In this talk, partly based on joint work with H. Seppanen, I will present a description of the GIT-classes of L-ample line bundles on X and some properties of the respective GIT-quotients. Under mild assumptions, we prove the existence of a quotient whose Cox ring is, up to a finite extension, isomorphic to the ring of L-invariants in the Cox ring of X. This is indeed a special property, as such a quotient inherits, a priori, only information about the ample line bundle with respect to which it is defined.
Jordan algebra conformal toolbox, ICMS Seminar Talk by Todor Popov
We employ the Jordan algebras for a succinct description of the dynamical conformal symmetries of integrable models.
