IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, from August Fridays to August 11th

The International Congress of Mathematical Physics (ICMP), is the major scientific event of the community which brings together mathematical physicists and mathematicians working in areas related to Physics, and currently it is held with a periodicity of three years. The meeting now has much reach in history, and has had a fundamental impact on the development of this area of knowledge. The idea of such an event was germinated in the late sixties, and the first meeting was held in 1972 in Moscow.

The ICMP represents the crowning event during which the major achievements of three past years are reported to the broad audience of researchers and advanced students. The Congress has very broad and intense scientific program: Fourteen plenary speakers will present their newest results and discuss future directions of development, and sixteen specialized session give place to leaders of the sub-fields for zoomed discussions on selected topics.

The ICMP was preceded by Young Researchers Symposium, YRS, lasting two days. On this occasion the winners of 2006-Poincaré prize and other prominent scientists gave plenary lectures and promoted discussions with young researchers, post-doc and advanced graduate students in order to promote the enlargement of possible development areas for research. Young active scientists in the field had, yet, the possibility of displaying their work during the event.

During the ICMP event the most relevant developments in Condensed matter physics, Dynamical Systems, Exactly Solvable Systems, Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics, General Relativity, Operator Algebras, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Mechanics, 2D Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Information, String Theory , Stochastic PDE, Probability and Random Matrices research areas were presented.

Organizing & Scientific Committee:

  • Carlos A. Aragão de Carvalho, IF-UFRJ
  • Ronald Dickman, UFMG,
  • Ruy Exel, UFSC
  • Paulo A. Faria da Veiga, ICMC-USP
  • Pablo A. Ferrari, IME-USP
  • Luiz A. Ferreira, IFT-UNESP
  • Michael Forger, IME-USP
  • Brother Frid, IMPA
  • Antonio Galves, IME-USP
  • Celso Grebogi, IF-USP
  • Claudio Landim, IMPA
  • Patricio A. Letelier, Unicamp
  • Domingos HU Marchetti, IF – USP
  • Alfredo Osório de Almeida, CBPF
  • Michael O'Carroll, ICMC-USP
  • Emmanuel A. Pereira, UFMG
  • José Fernando Perez, IF-USP
  • Roberto Schonmann UCLA
  • Ricardo Schor, ICEx-UFMG
  • Vladas Sidoravicius, IMPA (coordinator)
  • Maria Eulália Vares, CBPF
  • Marcelo Viana, IMPA
  • Jorge Zubelli, IMPA
  • D. Brydges (Vancouver)
  • GM Graf (Zurich)
  • G. Huisken (Tübingen)
  • A. Its (Indianapolis)
  • V. Schomerus (Saclay)
  • V. Sidoravicius (Rio de Janeiro)
  • SRS Varadhan (Chairman) (New York).

Advisory Committee:

  • C. Dafermos (Brown)
  • J. Feldman (VBC, Vancouver)
  • K. Fredenhagen (Hamburg)
  • J. Frohlich (ETH, Zurich)
  • K. Gawedzki (ENS, Lyon)
  • A. Jaffe (Harvard)
  • G. Gallavotti (Rome I)
  • G. Jona-Lasinio (Rome I)
  • V. Jones (Berkeley)
  • J. Lebowitz (Rutgers)
  • E. Lieb (Princeton)
  • C. Newman (Courant)
  • D. Olive (Swansea, Wales)
  • E. Presutti (Rome II)
  • V. Rivasseau (Poly technique)
  • C. Rogers (New South Wales)
  • D. Ruelle (IRES)
  • B. Simon (Caltech)
  • H. Spohn (TV, Munich)
  • AS Sznitman (ETH, Zurich)
  • J.-C. Zambrini (Lisbon)

Postal Address: National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics
Dona Castorina Road 110, Jardim Botânico
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Postal Code 22460-320, Brazil
Email: eventos@impa.br