IMI-BAS Launches the Atanasoff Memorial Lecture Series Celebrating John Vincent Atanasoff

On November 10, 2025, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences will host the Atanasoff Memorial Day event - a new initiative of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS-Sofia) at the IMI-BAS. The organizers' ambition is to hold the Atanasoff Memorial Lecture Series program every year, thus commemorating the memory of John Vincent Atanasoff (1903–1995) - a computer pioneer, inventor of a model of an electronic digital computer and renowned as the "Bulgarian father of the electronic computer". It aims to celebrate the intersection of mathematics, computation, and the sciences of complexity — the very domains that unite topology, geometry, and machine learning in the 21st century.

Published On: November 6th, 2025Categories: NewsLast Updated: November 6th, 20251.3 min read
THE ALGEBRA OF AVALANCHES – Public Lecture by Ernesto Lupercio — Ramanujan Prize Laureate

On November 10, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 403 of IMI–BAS, Professor Ernesto Lupercio will deliver a public lecture titled “The Algebra of Avalanches: From Sandpiles to the Hidden Symmetries of the Universe.” Professor Lupercio, chair of the research group “Topological, Computational, and Algebraic Aspects of Complex Systems” at ICMS–Sofia, is an internationally recognized mathematician and recipient of the ICTP Ramanujan Prize and the Marcos Moshinsky Research Award.

Published On: November 6th, 2025Categories: NewsLast Updated: November 6th, 20251.9 min read
A Year of Collaboration and Discovery in the Theory of Atoms Group

On August 7, 2025, the Conference Celebrating the Consortium IMSAC was officially opened at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI–BAS) in Sofia. The event honors the long-standing collaboration among leading mathematical institutes across the USA, Latin America, Asia, and Europe, united in the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas Consortium (IMSAC). At the opening, Prof. Julian Revalski, Director of the International Center for Mathematical Sciences – Sofia (ICMS-Sofia), greeted the participants and emphasized the importance of international cooperation in advancing contemporary mathematics. Prof. Peter Boyvalenkov, Director of IMI-BAS, welcomed the guests to the institute and wished them a fruitful and inspiring conference. The opening of the conference also sets the tone for a vibrant month of mathematical activity inBulgaria and coincides with an important milestone — the end of the first year of the activities of the research group Theory of Atoms, led by Prof. Ludmil Katzarkov.

Published On: August 8th, 2025Categories: News, Theory of AtomsLast Updated: October 31st, 20251.7 min read
The International Conference Celebrating the Consortium IMSAC brings together mathematicians from four continents

From August 7 to 9, 2025, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI–BAS) will host the International Conference Celebrating the Consortium IMSAC -  an event that brings together distinguished mathematicians from around the world. The conference is jointly organized by the International Center for Mathematical Sciences – Sofia (ICMS-Sofia) at IMI–BAS and the Institute for the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA) at the University of Miami. The Celebrating the Consortium IMSAC conference will take place in Hall 403 at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics in Sofia. The programme starts with a talk by the Fields Medalist Caucher Birkar. Over the course of three days, leading researchers from the IMSAC network will present their latest results, discuss joint projects, and explore new directions in mathematics and its applications.

Published On: August 6th, 2025Categories: NewsLast Updated: August 6th, 20251.5 min read

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  • 15 December 2025 - 19 December 2025

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    The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers to share recent advances, promote further developments in the theory of Quantum Groups and Cluster Algebras, and to investigate their interactions and applications across mathematics and physics. Quantum groups and cluster algebras both provide frameworks for encoding algebraic and geometric structures arising in representation theory, geometry, and mathematical physics. Quantum groups, as deformations of universal enveloping algebras, capture generalized symmetries with rich categorical and representation-theoretic properties. On the other hand, Cluster algebras, introduced by Fomin and Zelevinsky, appear as important algebraic varieties and reveal properties of them through combinatorial rules. Cluster algebras are essential in the study of canonical bases in diverse settings.

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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.

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Women in Mathematics in South-Eastern Europe

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.

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The Annual Meeting of Young Bulgarian Mathematicians

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.

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