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CAVARET 2 brings together 83 researchers on curves and abelian varieties at the Universitat de Barcelona
The second edition of CAVARET, "Curves, Abelian VArieties and RElated Topics", took place at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Universitat de Barcelona from 13 to 17 July 2026....
Mathematics on board: CRM’s demand forecasting model enters service on Barcelona’s H12 corridor
The H12 has run along Gran Via for years. What TMB switched on in July is the set of upgrades designed for it inside eBRT2030, a Horizon Europe project testing electric Bus Rapid Transit in six...
Dídac Gil Rams defends his doctoral thesis on the splitting of separatrices in generalized standard maps
Supervised by Inmaculada Baldomá and Pau Martín, the thesis proves the existence of chaotic dynamics in a broad family of area-preserving maps and combines classical analysis with computer-assisted...
How to Protect Bacteriophages Without Trapping Them? Mathematics to Improve an Alternative to Antibiotics
Bacteriophages — viruses capable of infecting and destroying bacteria — are considered one of the most promising alternatives to tackle the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. However, for...
The CRM hosts nine international students for the 10th Barcelona International Youth Science Challenge
Nine secondary school students from six countries spent eight days at the CRM in July, working through four minicourses on fluid dynamics, perturbation methods, iteration and chaos, and randomness...
The Mathematics Behind the Three CRM Lectures at ICM 2026
Three CRM-affiliated researchers, Xavier Tolsa (plenary speaker), Xavier Cabré and Joaquim Ortega-Cerdà, lectured at the ICM 2026 in Philadelphia. Cabré surveyed the regularity of stable solutions...
Crossing Dimensional Frontiers: a breakthrough in the shape of stable solutions to semilinear elliptic equations
More than twenty years of efforts were required to solve a central problem in the theory of partial differential equations. A body of work developed over decades —and recognized with the Frontiers...
Anna Florio, third CRM Chair of Excellence: billiards, friction, and the value of staying
The dynamicist Anna Florio (CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL) spends the summer at the CRM as the centre's third María de Maeztu Chair of Excellence. She is working with Immaculada Baldomà...
Hong Wang wins the Fields Medal, a year after her Kakeya lecture at the CRM
Hong Wang (NYU Courant and IHES) has received the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, alongside Yu Deng (University of Chicago), John Pardon (Stony Brook...
A Conference on Nonlinear PDEs on the Occasion of Xavier Cabré’s Anniversary
One anniversary, eight speakers, July and PDES (People, Discussions, Emotions and Summer) in BarcelonaThe conference Nonlinear PDEs was held at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans (IEC) on 6 and 7 July...
Jezabel Curbelo receives the 2026 ECCOMAS Jacques-Louis Lions Award
Jezabel Curbelo, full professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and affiliated researcher at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, has been awarded the ECCOMAS Jacques-Louis Lions Young...
An asteroid now carries the name of Àngel Jorba
An asteroid has been named (20137) Àngeljorba in honour of Àngel Jorba (1963-2025), UB professor and CRM affiliated researcher. Approved by the IAU, the name recognises his career in dynamical...
BIMR 2026: a first taste of research for future mathematicians
For four weeks in July 2026, the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica hosted the Barcelona Introduction to Mathematical Research (BIMR), a BGSMath summer programme built to give undergraduate and master's...
Cambridge University Press publishes Single and Multiple Number Series, co-authored by Sergey Tikhonov (ICREA, CRM)
Sergey Tikhonov (ICREA, CRM) is one of four authors of the volume, published in the Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications series, which develops the theory of number...
The 22nd JISD brings dynamical systems and PDEs to the CRM
The 22nd School on Interactions between Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations (JISD) is taking place at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica from 29 June to 3 July 2026. Four advanced...
CRM Annual Report 2025: A Year in Mathematics
CRM June Newsletter
ENHANCE Poster Earns Honorable Mention at FEniCS 2026 in Paris
Harmonic Analysis and PDEs Summer School at the CRM
Four mini-courses, from incompressible fluids to the geometry of boundaries, around a shared body of technique. CRM Auditorium, 15 to 18 June 2026.A rotating blob of fluid that never settles into...
An extension to higher dimensions of Carleson’s ε² conjecture
A recent article by Ian Fleschler (Princeton University), Xavier Tolsa (UAB – ICREA – CRM) and Michele Villa (Ikerbasque and UPV/EHU), published in Inventiones Mathematicae, establishes a...
Hypatia 2026: Modelling Life, Sharing Ideas
From June 8 to 11, 2026, the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) hosted a new edition of the Hypatia Graduate Summer School, a space for advanced training and scientific exchange for young...
Eva Miranda and Xavier Tolsa elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences
Spain's Royal Academy of Sciences has elected two mathematicians from the CRM community to its Mathematics section within the space of a month.The plenary of Spain’s Royal Academy of Exact, Physical...
CRM May Newsletter
BARCCSYN 2026 gathers Barcelona’s computational neuroscience community at the IEC
The fourteenth BARCCSYN meeting brought 117 researchers to the Institut d'Estudis Catalans on 28 and 29 May 2026 for two days of computational, cognitive and systems neuroscience. Organised by the...
The Fully Nonlinear Thin Obstacle Problem Attains Optimal Regularity
Obstacle problems are a fundamental class of questions in the analysis of partial differential equations. They describe situations in which a quantity can evolve freely, but is subject to a...
Four CRM-affiliated mathematicians in the 2026 ranking of women researchers in Spain
Tere M-Seara, Eva Miranda, Núria Fagella and Marta Mazzocco appear in the April 2026 edition of the Ranking de mujeres investigadoras españolas y en España.Four mathematicians affiliated with the...
Three CRM researchers take mathematics to the bars of Sabadell
On 20 May, three researchers from the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica spent the evening at two bars in Sabadell, explaining their work to anyone who turned up for a drink. They were taking part in Pint...
An introductory course to the Boltzmann equation: from microscopic dynamics to macroscopic order
Between April 28 and May 14, 2026, the Faculty of Mathematics at the Universitat de Barcelona hosted the BGSMath course An introductory course to the Boltzmann equation. Over six sessions, the...
What memory has to balance: Representational drift, network freezing, and the mechanisms that hold neural circuits in between
Two recent papers from the Computational and Mathematical Neuroscience group at CRM ask what makes neural circuits drift in the first place, and what keeps them from collapsing under their own...