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.
Each year, an internationally distinguished scientist is invited as the Atanasoff Lecturer to deliver a keynote lecture highlighting frontier ideas where mathematical structure meets computational innovation. The series provides an open platform for dialogue across fields: pure mathematics, physics, data science, and artificial intelligence. It also serves as a tribute to the scientific imagination of John Vincent Atanasoff, whose work laid the foundations of electronic computation.
The inaugural edition of the series will take place at the International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS-Sofia) at the IMI-BAS, on November 10, 2025, featuring lectures by Amaury Hayat, Ernesto Lupercio, Raphaël Douady, Carlos Simpson, and Yuri Tschinkel. The program will weave together topics from topology to machine learning, control, and data-driven modelling of complex systems.
Read more on https://icms.bg/symposium-entanglements-of-logic-data-and-complexity/
