Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev visited the International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS-Sofia) at IMI-BAS on February 5, 2026. He reviewed the Center's development, which was founded in 2019 and is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science and Simons Foundation International. Highlights include 37 international events, funding for 48 researchers, and attracting five Fields Medalists. ICMS is a key player in the global mathematical network, collaborating with institutions like IMSA and IHÉS. Minister Valchev praised the Center's success in attracting international scientists.
On November 10, 2025, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences will host the Atanasoff Memorial Day event - a new initiative of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS-Sofia) at the IMI-BAS. The organizers' ambition is to hold the Atanasoff Memorial Lecture Series program every year, thus commemorating the memory of John Vincent Atanasoff (1903–1995) - a computer pioneer, inventor of a model of an electronic digital computer and renowned as the "Bulgarian father of the electronic computer". It aims to celebrate the intersection of mathematics, computation, and the sciences of complexity — the very domains that unite topology, geometry, and machine learning in the 21st century.
On November 10, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 403 of IMI–BAS, Professor Ernesto Lupercio will deliver a public lecture titled “The Algebra of Avalanches: From Sandpiles to the Hidden Symmetries of the Universe.” Professor Lupercio, chair of the research group “Topological, Computational, and Algebraic Aspects of Complex Systems” at ICMS–Sofia, is an internationally recognized mathematician and recipient of the ICTP Ramanujan Prize and the Marcos Moshinsky Research Award.
On August 7, 2025, the Conference Celebrating the Consortium IMSAC was officially opened at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI–BAS) in Sofia. The event honors the long-standing collaboration among leading mathematical institutes across the USA, Latin America, Asia, and Europe, united in the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas Consortium (IMSAC). At the opening, Prof. Julian Revalski, Director of the International Center for Mathematical Sciences – Sofia (ICMS-Sofia), greeted the participants and emphasized the importance of international cooperation in advancing contemporary mathematics. Prof. Peter Boyvalenkov, Director of IMI-BAS, welcomed the guests to the institute and wished them a fruitful and inspiring conference. The opening of the conference also sets the tone for a vibrant month of mathematical activity inBulgaria and coincides with an important milestone — the end of the first year of the activities of the research group Theory of Atoms, led by Prof. Ludmil Katzarkov.
Upcoming Events
- 25 May 2026 - 29 May 2026
The conference aims to bring together leading senior researchers and promising early‑career scholars working in elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. Key topics include regularity theory and its applications, free boundary problems, singularity formation and qualitative properties of solutions. A particular emphasis will be placed on fostering participation from young scholars in Eastern Europe, providing them with the opportunity to engage with cutting-edge developments in the area.
- 8 July 2026 - 11 July 2026
The Workshop on Computational Neuroscience aims at gathering scientists from various fields of computational neuroscience, including multi-modal brain data acquisition, data analysis and modeling of brain activity. The main goal of the event is to share experience of world leading scientists with fellow scientists and with young researchers and establish new long-term collaborations among them. The workshop will include frontal lectures and a Round Table.
Simons Foundation
Grant 2022-2025
The Simons Foundation International, Ltd., (SFI) is funding a project of the International Center for Mathematical Sciences for the period 2022 – 2025.
The grant is aimed at supporting displaced scientists from Ukraine and other countries, organizing international scientific events with the participation of world-renowned and established mathematicians, and opening new research positions for young scientists.
Annual conferences
Annual conference
Women in Mathematics in South-Eastern Europe
The mission of the initiative Women in Mathematics in South-Eastern Europe is to promote the role of female mathematicians.
The mission will be achieved through series of annual conferences with the main goal to celebrate women in Mathematics, to disseminate new results and create new long-term collaborations among scientists in South-Eastern Europe. We hope Women in Mathematics of South-Eastern Europe will attract the attention of young researchers and researchers from less-favoured countries.
The inaugural conference of the initiative Women in Mathematics in South-Eastern Europe took place in Dec 2020. A special distinguished guest of the inaugural conference was prof. Mina Teicher from the Department of Mathematics and Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Prof Teicher is also Director of Emmy Noether Institute for Mathematics.
Annual conference
The Annual Meeting of Young Bulgarian Mathematicians
This meeting has as its main objective bringing together young Bulgarian mathematicians working all over the world.
We envision two main outcomes:
- enriching relations between young mathematicians working in Bulgaria and the Bulgarian mathematical diaspora;
- enhancing the professional development of young Bulgarian mathematicians by presenting new opportunities using the national and European scientific programmes.
The inaugural event of the series was held May 19-20 2021 and commemorated the brightest Bulgarian holiday the Day of Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture and the Slavоnic Alphabet May 24.
