Matroid Week at CRM: A Collaborative Dive into Combinatorial Geometries
From October 13 to 17, 2025, the CRM hosted Matroid Week, a research school on combinatorial geometries and matroid theory. Courses by Laura Anderson and Geoff Whittle explored intersection properties and structural emergence in matroids. The event fostered deep...
László Lovász receives the 2025 Erasmus Medal in Barcelona
Mathematician László Lovász received the 2025 Erasmus Medal from the Academia Europaea yesterday at the PRBB in Barcelona, where he delivered the lecture “The Beauty of Mathematics”. Renowned for his work in graph theory and discrete mathematics, Lovász has shaped...
Combinatorial Geometry Takes Shape at the CRM
For one week in early October, the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica became a meeting ground for the world of combinatorial geometry. The Polytope Week research school gathered more than fifty participants from three continents to study the interplay...
Learning the Language of Complexity: XIII GEFENOL Summer School Highlights
From October 6–10, 2025, the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica hosted the XIII GEFENOL-DIFENSC Summer School, bringing together young researchers and leading experts to explore the role of statistical physics in understanding complex systems. The program featured courses...
A Week Inside Complexity: The First CS3 Summer School at the CRM
The first CS³ Summer School on Complex Systems transformed the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica into a crossroads of ideas, where physicists, biologists, economists, and mathematicians explored how order and chaos intertwine across nature and society....
Jezabel Curbelo receives the 2025 National Research Award for Young Researchers in Mathematics and ICT
Full professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and researcher at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Jezabel Curbelo has been honored with the 2025 National Research Award for Young Researchers in the María Andresa Casamayor category (Mathematics and ICT)....
Tim Myers represents ECMI at the ICIAM Board Meeting and promotes industrial mathematics in Vietnam
ICIAM Board and VIASM Members during a breakVietnam hosted the ICIAM Board Meeting and Workshop this September at the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM), gathering 70 delegates from five continents. CRM researcher Tim Myers attended as the...
Why Your Brain Is Never Still: Representational Drift and Statistical Learning
A paper recently published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology by Jens-Bastian Eppler, Matthias Kaschube, and Simon Rumpel shows that...
El CRM porta les matemàtiques a la Nit Europea de la Recerca: de l’asfalt als fractals i al futbol
La Nit Europea de la Recerca va portar a Barcelona, l’Hospitalet i Vic tres investigadors del CRM que van mostrar la diversitat i la vitalitat de la recerca matemàtica. A la Casa Golferichs, Leticia Pardo (UB-CRM) va introduir el públic en el món dels fractals,...
Wigglyhedra: A New Combinatorial and Geometric Structure
In the article "Wigglyhedra", researchers Asilata Bapat (Australian National University) and Vincent Pilaud (Universitat de Barcelona – Centre de Recerca Matemàtica) introduce the wiggly complex, a novel combinatorial and geometric structure, along with its associated...
CRM at the Bilbao–Barcelona Analysis and PDE Meeting
From September 3 to 5, 2025, the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) hosted the Bilbao–Barcelona Analysis and PDE Meeting. For three days, researchers from both cities met face to face, joined by colleagues from other institutions, to...
Javier Gómez-Serrano receives the 2025 R. E. Moore Prize
Javier Gómez-Serrano, professor at Brown University, has received the 2025 R. E. Moore Prize for Applications of Interval Analysis together with Tristan Buckmaster and Gonzalo Cao-Labora. The award honours their article Smooth imploding solutions...