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Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev visited the International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS-Sofia) at IMI-BAS on February 5, 2026. He reviewed the Center's development, which was founded in 2019 and is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science and Simons Foundation International. Highlights include 37 international events, funding for 48 researchers, and attracting five Fields Medalists. ICMS is a key player in the global mathematical network, collaborating with institutions like IMSA and IHÉS. Minister Valchev praised the Center's success in attracting international scientists.

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.

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.

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.