26/07/2023

IMPA seeks to strengthen its relationship with China.

Chinese researchers and professors visited IMPA on Monday (24), on the first day of the 34th Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium. They were received by the institute's deputy director, Claudio Landim, and researchers Carolina Araujo and Carlos Gustavo Moreira, as well as the president of the SBM (Brazilian Mathematical Society) , Paolo Piccione. The meeting aims to strengthen relations with the Asian country and increase the flow of partnerships between Chinese and Brazilian students.

“ IMPA, about ten years ago, began receiving students from China, both at the master's and doctoral levels, but in small numbers and all from the same university. With this visit, we are trying to stimulate exchanges between Brazil and China in mathematics. I hope that we can, for example, start a collaboration, sending students [from here] who have completed their doctorates and could do a post-doctorate in China,” explained Landim.

Landim also emphasized that the Asian country is investing more and more in science, in addition to creating several cutting-edge research centers. “Because it is a very distant country, short visits are impossible. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an exchange strategy and find centers in China that can spark interest here in Brazil, where there are researchers in common areas.”

Before the meeting at IMPA, the group of Chinese scientists was in Brazil for the Brazil-China Joint Mathematics Meeting in Foz do Iguaçu (PR). The event took place between July 17th and 21st and included lectures, plenary sessions, and guest sessions. The objective was also to stimulate future research projects and exchanges between the two countries.

The meeting was organized by the Brazilian Society of Mathematics (SBM) and the Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics (SBMAC). IMPA was one of the sponsors, along with the Araucária Foundation, the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES).