Brazilian Math Colloquium celebrates its 60th anniversary

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The Brazilian Math Colloquium, the largest scientific gathering of the math community in the country, is celebrating its 60th Annivrsary in 2017. Its 31st edition will take place in IMPA from July, 31st to August, 4. IMPA’s headquarters are expected to receive up to 800 professionals and students.

This biennial event has its origins in 1957, and it has gathered the best Brazilian Math names research and also famous foreign names.

According to Marcelo Viana, IMPA’s director, the first CBM is considered to be the “founding act of Brazilian mathematics”. “Much of our math development originated and solidified around the CBM. And it is as important and lively now as it has always been in these 60 years’ history” says Viana.

Claudio Landim states that the Colloquium is “without a doubt, the largest gathering of the Brazilian math community. Its longevity shows the growing strenght of the Brazilian math”.

Event Schedule

The 31º CBM will feature 11 plenary lectures with world renowned researchers, such as the Fields Medalist Artur Avila (IMPA); Luis A. Caffarelli (Universidade do Texas-Austin); Lucia Caporaso (Università Roma Tre), Hugo Duminil-Copin (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques); Ivar Ekeland (Université Paris-Dauphine); Michael Hutchins (University of California-Berkeley), Carlos Gustavo Moreira and others (see schedule).

The public lectures will be “Random Counting”, by Robert Morris (IMPA), on August 2, and “Geometry and Arithmetics: A love story”, by Cecília Salgado (UFRJ), the next day. The round table “Math: female noun – Challenges and perspectives on gender issues” Organized by Carolina Araujo (IMPA), it will discuss the role for women in Math, on August 2.

Multiple other activities will be offered, such as introductory and advanced courses on contemporary and relevant topics. The opening ceremony will be at 6h30 pm on Monday, July 31st

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