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In this series of talks, we will explore how the field of self-organized criticality is useful to inform the structure of artificial models of life. This is joint work with Kalinin, Tabares and Shkolnikov, and with Cruz, Muñoz and Viafara.
Ernesto Lupercio - Self-organized Criticality and Artificial Life
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The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics and The International Center for Mathematical Sciences – Sofia organizes a lecture Building Scientific Institutes by Prof. Yuri Tschinkel, Courant Institute at New York University, USA. Prof. Tschinkel will share his experience with funding research through private business. The lecture will be held on June 13, 2022 (Monday), at 5:30 pm, at the Intercontinental Hotel Sofia, Ballroom Hall, 4 Narodno Sabranie Square.
Prof. Yuri Tschinkel - Building Scientific Institutes
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The International Center for Mathematical Sciences – Sofia is organizing for a second consecutive year a meeting of young Bulgarian mathematicians from around the world. The conference will take place at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS) from June 13 to June 14. A special guest of the event is Prof. Yuri Tschinkel from Courant Institute, NYU and Simmons Foundation director for mathematical and physical sciences.
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These lectures will present a board survey of recent work on new q-series invariants of 3-manifolds labeled by Spin-C structures. While the original motivation for studying these invariants is rooted in topology, they exhibit a number of unexpected properties and connections to other areas of mathematics, e.g. turn out to be characters of logarithmic vertex algebras. The integer coefficients of these q-series invariants can be understood as the answer to a certain enumerative problem, and when q tends to special values these invariants relate to other invariants of 3-manifolds labeled by Spin and Spin-C structures.
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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.

The International Center for Mathematical Sciences – Sofia (ICMS-Sofia)
at the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

presents

Objectivity and Subjectivity in Mathematics

Academic Seminar of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Prof. Marin Drinov Hall
June 8, 5:00 pm

Bernard Teissier

Institute Mathématique de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche

Objectivity and Subjectivity in Mathematics

In the first part of the talk, I shall explore the consequences of distinguishing the foundations of meaning and the foundations of truth in mathematical statements, or imagination and rigor as motors of mathematical development. The foundations of meaning can be sought in our largely unconscious perception of the world, which modern cognitive science is exploring.

In the second part, I shall illustrate this by comparing two approaches to understanding mathematical problems: creating appropriate abstract structures, which is exemplified by Galois, Hilbert, Bourbaki and Grothendieck, or creating geometric models where we can use our intuition of space, of which Riemann, Poincaré and Thom were masters. This part requires some basic mathematical knowledge.

The lecture will be held in Prof. Marin Drinov Hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

ICMS-Sofia and IMSA-Miami

presents

Consortium Distinguished Lecture Series

June 30, 2023, 15:30 (EEST, Sofia time),
“Prof. Marin Drinov” Hall, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1, “15th November” Str., Sofia
and via Zoom

Michael R. Douglas, Harvard University, CMSA

Michael R. Douglas received his PhD in Physics in 1988 under the supervision of John Schwarz, one of the developers and leading researchers in superstring theory.

Douglas is best known for his work in string theory, for the development of matrix models (the first nonperturbative formulations of string theory), for his work on Dirichlet branes and on noncommutative geometry in string theory, and for the development of the statistical approach to string phenomenology. He has influenced the developments of modern mathematics by finding interpretations of branes on the language of derived categories and introducing the theory of stability conditions for categories.

Douglas received the 2000 Sackler Prize in theoretical physics and has been a Gordon Moore Visiting Scholar at Caltech, a Louis Michel Visiting Professor at the IHES, and a Clay Mathematics Institute Mathematical Emissary. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a member of the American Physical Society, and has served as the editor of the Journal of High Energy Physics and of Communications in Mathematical Physics.

Events and activities

Annual conference

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.

Annual conference

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.

News and Announcements

Plank Problems: Discrete Geometry and Convexity, ICMS Seminar Talk by Alexander Polyanskiy

March 9th, 2023|

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

February 16th, 2023|

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.

Our esteemed collaborators

Carlos Simpson
Alexander Efimov
Victor Przyjalkowski
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Yu-We Fan
Ivan Cheltsov
Maxim Kontsevich
Artan Sheshmani
Ernesto Lupercio
Tony Yue YU