The Scientific Advisory Board of the CRM met in July 2025 to advise on the centre’s scientific direction and review key aspects of its activity. In addition to looking at strategic plans and recruitment priorities, Board members took part in a poster session with CRM young researchers, offering feedback and career guidance. This exchange highlighted the SAB’s essential role in ensuring the quality, coherence, and future vision of CRM’s research programmes.
Every year, the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) opens its doors to the members of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), a group of internationally renowned researchers tasked with a crucial mission: to assess the scientific health of the centre, offer strategic guidance, and help shape its future. The most recent meeting, held on July 9th and 10th, 2025, was an opportunity for the SAB to assess ongoing programmes, and engage directly with the next generation of researchers building their careers at CRM.
One of the highlights of the meeting was the poster session led by young CRM researchers.
The Scientific Advisory Board plays a central role in the life of the centre. Beyond assessing reports and evaluating researchers, its members serve as a sounding board for the institution’s major strategic decisions. Their independent perspective, grounded in long-standing academic experience, provides a vital counterpoint to the internal management of the centre. This year, the SAB was invited to contribute to the development of the 2026–2030 Strategic Plan and reflect on CRM’s positioning within an increasingly interdisciplinary research ecosystem.
One of the highlights of the meeting was the poster session led by young CRM researchers. Held during the second day, this informal gathering brought together PhD researchers and postdoctoral fellows from diverse areas, ranging from dynamical systems and geometry to mathematical modelling and neuroscience, to present their work directly to the SAB members. The exchange was lively and constructive, with Board members offering not only feedback on the projects but also broader career advice and encouragement.
This kind of interaction captures the spirit of the CRM: a research centre where scientific excellence is nurtured through dialogue, collaboration, and mentorship. The SAB’s contribution ensures that the centre remains firmly rooted in mathematical research while evolving in step with the challenges of the scientific world.
As CRM enters the end of the Maria de Maeztu project, the support and insight of the Scientific Advisory Board will continue to be an essential part of its journey.
Current members of the CRM Scientific Advisory Board:
-
Nicolas Brunel, Duke University
-
Afonso Bandeira, ETH Zürich
-
Kathryn Hess, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
-
Victoria Gould, University of York
-
Ari Laptev, Imperial College London (Chair)
-
Philippe Michel, EPFL
-
Alessandra Micheletti, Università degli Studi di Milano
-
Mikhail Sodin, Tel Aviv University
-
Susanna Terracini, Università di Torino
-
Katrin Wendland, Trinity College Dublin
Subscribe for more CRM News
Stay updated to our mailing list to get the lastest information about CRM activities.
|
|
CRM CommPau Varela
|
Yves Chevallard (1946–2026)
Yves Chevallard passed away on 16 March 2026. He was 79 years old. Born in Tunis, he trained at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he earned an agrégation de mathématiques. He went on to become a professor at Aix-Marseille Université, and it was there, over...
The CRM participates in a European project studying decision-making and risk perception in mountain environments
The NeuroMunt project (POCTEFA, coordinated by the Université de Perpignan Via Domitia) studies how people make decisions under risk conditions in mountain environments, bringing together researchers from France and Spain across disciplines ranging from complex...
One Day, One Family, One Place: Poisson Geometry at CRM
On March 23rd, 2026, the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica hosted the thematic day “Poisson Geometry and Its Relatives”, a full‑day event that brought together researchers exploring Poisson geometry and several of its neighbouring areas. The programme combined classical...
Life After the PhD: Three Roads Forward
On March 18, the BGSMath held its first session on careers after a PhD in mathematics, bringing together three speakers with different professional trajectories and 46 early-career researchers from nine institutions.On March 18, the Barcelona Graduate School of Math...
CRM participates in the 2026 ERCOM annual meeting in Belgrade
The CRM participated in the 2026 ERCOM annual meeting in Belgrade (20–21 March), represented by Director Carme Cascante, Manager Gemma Martínez, and Scientific Activities Manager Núria Hernández. The programme focused on multidisciplinarity, mathematics and the arts,...
5 Talks, 1 Topic: A Day of Combinatorics
On March 18th, 2026, the 5 Talks in Combinatorics thematic day took place in the Joan Maragall Room at the Faculty of Philology and Communication of the University of Barcelona, in the historic building. The event focused on modern combinatorics and its connections...
Gerd Faltings Awarded the 2026 Abel Prize for Transformative Work in Arithmetic Geometry
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has recognised the German mathematician for solving two of the most enduring open problems in the field.The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today that the 2026 Abel Prize goes to Gerd Faltings, director...
The Centre de Recerca Matemàtica Approves Its Strategic Plan for 2026–2030
The Centre de Recerca Matemàtica has approved its Strategic Plan for 2026 - 2030, setting priorities in research, training, and knowledge transfer. Four flagship initiatives anchor the scientific programme. The Centre de Recerca Matemàtica approved its Strategic Plan...
CRM Awards Its Prize at Exporecerca Jove for the Third Time
For the third year running, CRM visited Exporecerca Jove to award its prize to the student project with the strongest mathematical content. This edition, the jury selected two winners: Xavier Ortiz Quintana, who built a real-time 3D scanner using...
When Symmetry Breaks the Rules: From Askey–Wilson Polynomials to Functions
Researchers Tom Koornwinder (U. Amsterdam) and Marta Mazzocco (ICREA-UPC-CRM) published a paper in Indagationes Mathematicae exploring DAHA symmetries. Their work shows that these symmetries shift Askey–Wilson polynomials into a continuous functional setting,and...
Homotopy Theory Conference Brings Together Diverse Research Perspectives
The Centre de Recerca Matemàtica hosted 75 mathematicians from over 20 countries for the Homotopy Structures in Barcelona conference, held February 9-13, 2026. Fourteen invited speakers presented research spanning rational equivariant cohomology theories, isovariant...
Three ICM speakers headline the first CRM Faculty Colloquium
On 19 February 2026, the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica inaugurated its first CRM Faculty Colloquium, a new quarterly event designed to bring together the mathematical community around the research carried out by scientists affiliated with the Centre. The CRM auditorium...