claude cibils ( université montpellier 2 & université nice sophia antipolis ) director

CIMPA

CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE MATHÉMATIQUES PURES ET APPLIQUÉES

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS

www.cimpa-icpam.org

Claude CIBILS (Université Montpellier 2 & Université Nice Sophia Antipolis)

DirectorSteering Council, Malaga, January 2012



CIMPA’s mission

To promote international cooperation for the benefit of developing in higher education and research in mathematics and its applications, or in closely related subjects

to this end CIMPA organizes research schools and supports schools or networks in relation with continental mathematical societies

its actions are concentrated at places where there is the will to further develop mathematics and where a research project is feasible

a main endeavour is to maintain three equilibria : gender, geography and subject



CIMPA’s history

CIMPA is:

a non-profit organization created in 1978 with office at Nice in France, made by mathematicians for helping developing research in mathematics

mainly funded by France, the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and Spain

a category 2 centre of UNESCO since the 90’s



A new era of international cooperation

In March 2010, a convention was signed with MICINN (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain), opening up new perspectives:

it allows CIMPA to respond to more requests from developing countries

it is a first step towards having new European member states: Norway and Switzerland in 2012.

In December 2010 a convention was signed with Argentina.

In May 2011 with Hassan II Academy of Morocco In June 2011 with African Institute for Mathematical

Sciences Cape Town



Laboratoire d’excellence CARMIN

CIMPA is member of CARMIN, Centre d’accueil et de rencontres mathématiques, a LABEX 2011 directed by Cédric Villani (Fields medalist 2010).

The other partners are

• CIRM Centre international de rencontres mathématiques (Marseille)

• IHÉS Institut de Hautes études scientifiques (Paris)

• IHP Institut Henri Poincaré (Paris)



CIMPA’s organization

CIMPA is a category 2 UNESCO centre

with permanent institutional members (UNESCO, French and Spanish Ministries, University of Nice), and 6 mathematicians in its Governing Board

with a 4 members Executive Board, a Scientific Council and a Steering Council

with a Director and a Director’s Management team: several Regional Scientific Officers and an Officer in charge of Communication



Executive Board

President: TSOU Sheung Tsun University of Oxford (Mathematical physics)

Vice‐President: Alain DAMLAMIAN Université Paris 12 (Nonlinear analysis, nonlinear partial diff.

equations)

Secretary: Jean-Marc BARDETUniversité Paris 1 (Probability and statistics)

Treasurer: Bernard ROUSSELETUniversité de Nice (Nonlinear vibrations, optimisation)



Scientific Council

Chairman: Enrique ZUAZUA (Spain) (Applied Maths) Jean-Marc AZAÏS (France) (Probability, statistics) Viviane BALADI (France) (Dynamical systems) Edy Tri BASKORO (Indonesia) (Graph theory) Suzanne BRENNER (USA) (Numerical analysis) Maria Luiza FERNANDEZ (Spain) (Differential geometry) Vaughan JONES (USA) (Fields Medal) Orlando LOPES (Brazil) (PDE, Non linear analysis) Youssef OUKNINE (Marocco) (Probability, stochastic

equations) Carlos DI PRISCO (Venezuela) (Logic) Ragni PIENE (Norway) (Algebraic geometry) Ramdorai SUJATHA (India) (Number theory, K-Theory)



Management team

Director : Claude CIBILS (U. Montpellier 2, on leave at U. Nice Sophia-Antipolis)

Regional scientific officers: Sub-Saharan Africa: Marie-Françoise ROY (U. Rennes 1)

Mediterranean: Ahmad EL SOUFI (U. Tours)

Latin America and Caribbean: Claude CIBILS South-east Asia: Christian MAUDUIT (U. Aix Marseille II)

India and West Asia: Jorge JIMENEZ URROZ (U. Politècnica de Catalunya)

Transversal Regional scientific officer: Mercedes SILES MOLINA (U. Malaga)

Communication: Rosane USHIROBIRA (U. Bourgogne, on leave at INRIA Lille)



Scientific partners

Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis (UNS), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Centre National de la recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Société Mathématique de France (SMF),Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI), International Mathematical Union (IMU), International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), European Mathematical Society (EMS), International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Union Mathématique Africaine (UMA), South East Asian Mathematical Society (SEAMS), Union Mathématique d'Amérique Latine et Caraïbes (UMALCA), Comité National Français des Mathématiciens (CNFM), Centro de Modelamiento Matematico (CMM), Bordeauxthèque, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Comité Español de Matemáticas (CEMAT), Real Sociedad Matemática Española (RSME), Societat Catalana de Matemàtique (SCM), Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada (SEMA), Sociedad Española de Estadística e Investigación operativa (SEIO)



Numbers

203 research schools 100 participations in higher level education and research

networks (seminars, workshops and doctoral courses)

Countries 18 from Africa

12 from Asia

13 from South America and Caribbean

8 from the Middle East

5 from Central and Eastern Europe

11637 young mathematicians 2241 speakers, 1050 from Southern countries



Budget 2011

364 K € 70% from MESR (France) 5% from MICINN (Spain) 3% from UNESCO 6% from CNRS 13% from CARMIN

Half of budget for Africa (Sub-Saharan and Mediterranean)

paid from budget : one and a half full time secretaries not included in budget: salary of director, of informatics

responsible team (scientific advisors), committees, lecturers: voluntary

basis



CIMPA Research Schools

OUGADOUGOU - 2009




Open call every year

proposals for two weeks schools come from everywhere some are encouraged by CIMPA members Scientific Council analyzes, evaluates and make

recommendations Steering Council select about 15 to 20 research school

projects

Schools are organized locally with scientific and administrative help from CIMPA, in a North-South-South format




Young participants from neighboring countries apply, some are selected by the organizers with CIMPA and they receive full CIMPA financial support

Lecturers and speakers are not paid, they use mostly their own funding for travel

CIMPA helps through letters, discussions with organizers, explanation to authorities, fund raising etc.




Average budget for a RS: 40k€ CIMPA participation is about 12k€, mainly for young people from developing countries

A four pages Road Map helps from the very beginning to have a successful RS with interchanges, discussions and insuring an open future for participants

Each RS has two final reports. One from the main local organizers, the other from CIMPA representative.




Mathematics are a continuum from Fundamental ones to Applied ones, passing through application to other sciences.

Subjects can be at the core of foundations or of applications, or at a MIxed zone and some are combined with interactions. We have used the Classification by MathSciNet and Zentralblatt in collaboration with the Governing Board and the Management Team.

2012 : F=6 A=6 MI=5

2005 - 2011




ALEXANDRIA - 2009



2012



EMALCAs• In 1998 UMALCA (Union de Matematicos de America Latina y

del Caribe) began EMALCAs in Venezuela.• A week long mathematical school - level is end of Bachelor or

Master.• At places where mathematics begins to become strong.

Main purpose : “to put young in contact with accurate subjects of today interest, to stimulate those which put themselves on light and between them encourage some to pursue with a PhD.”

• Lecturers are from neighbouring countries.• Open call by UMALCA and transparent selection process.• CIMPA has a cooperation agreement and provides support.• Recent ones: Salta (Argentina), San Salvador (El Salvador),

Trujillo (Peru), Hidalgo (Mexico), Asuncion (Paraguay), Merida (Venezuela).



Some new initiatives

Short Mathematical Visits (with CARMIN)

Launched in 2011.Intended for young mathematicians (pre or post-doc) willing to visit one of CARMIN’s centres with a possible extension to France, Norway, Spain or Switzerland.

The application requires a precise program, a motivation letter and letters from confirmed mathematicians.

A scientific committee will select candidates for 2012.



Some new initiatives

EMAEncouraging African schools (using EMALCA’s experience) by UMA after the first one in Madagascar in 2011.

IV CLAM Latin-american mathematical congress in Cordoba (August 2012). CIMPA supports and helped for the participation of Cédric Villani.

SEAMS CIMPA has participated in December to its annual meeting. Encouraging SEAMS-school (using EMALCA’s experience), after the first one in Bangkok in 2011

claude cibils ( université montpellier 2 & université nice sophia antipolis ) director

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