On behalf of the chancellor of the University of Seville, and acting as Head of the Organizing Committee, I am honoured to present the the candidacy of the University of Seville to organize the 9th European Congress of Mathematics, of the European Mathematical Society, from July 15th to July 19th, 2024.
We would love to welcome you in one of the best-known historical cities in Europe, famous worldwide for its culture, monuments, traditions and artistic heritage. Seville is at the heart of Andalusia, the southern region of Spain comprising renowned cities such as Granada, Málaga, Córdoba and Cádiz.
The organization of this congress will benefit from the experience of the Institute of Research in Mathematics at the University of Seville (IMUS), and the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Granada (IEMATH-GR), the two institutions at the core of the Andalusian Institute of Mathematics (IAMAT).
The Organizing Committee is formed by sixteen Andalusian Mathematicians, eight women and eight men coming from different areas of Mathematics, having a high research activity, experience in organizing research events, and distinct skills and professional trajectories.
The Committee counts with the support of several institutions and organizations from Spain, Andalusia and Seville. The Royal Spanish Mathematical Society (RSME), the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics (SEMA), the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operational Research (SEIO) and the Catalan Mathematical Society (SCM) have expressed their support to this candidacy. Other political, academic and social institutions are also supporting this candidacy. Of course, the University of Seville will provide all its facilities, expertise and advice, in order to make this Congress a big success.
This webpage contains information concerning the environment, our plans for the organization of the 9ECM, and our experience organizing large conferences. We commit to organize the 9th European Congress of Mathematics following the guidelines of this detailed bid, with the natural modifications that could eventually be proposed by the Executive Committee of the European Mathematical Society.
Sincerely,
Juan González-Meneses
Head of the Organizing Committee
Juan
González-Meneses
(Head)
Universidad de Sevilla
José Alfredo Cañizo
Universidad de Granada
Mirta Castro Smirnova
Universidad de Sevilla
Guillermo P. Curbera
Universidad de Sevilla
Isabel Fernández
Universidad de Sevilla
Enrique D.Fernández-Nieto
Universidad de Sevilla
Francisco Gancedo
Universidad de Sevilla
Clara Isabel Grima
Universidad de Sevilla
Andrés
Jiménez-Losada
Universidad de Sevilla
María Luz
Muñoz-Ruiz
Universidad de Málaga
María Luz Puertas
Universidad de Almería
Victoria
Martín-Márquez
Universidad de Sevilla
Magdalena Rodríguez
Universidad de Granada
María Ángeles
Rodríguez-Bellido
Universidad de Sevilla
Antonio Rojas-León
Universidad de Sevilla
Alfonso
Suárez-Llorens
Universidad de Cádiz
Satellite conferences play an essential role among scientific activities surrounding the celebration of every ECM.
The Organizing Committee will encourage that members of the European mathematical community not only participate in the 9ECM, but also get involved in the organization of satellite conferences.
A call for proposals for satellite events will be done well in advance. In order for the proposals to be accepted, international projection will be required. In addition, participants of the 9ECM should enjoy some privileges in registering for the satellite conferences. For example, organizers of these conferences could commit to grant at least 20% discount on registration for participants of the 9ECM. Conversely, participants in the 9ECM could also enjoy some privileges in registering for the satellite events. Satellite conferences will be announced through the 9ECM channels.
Satellite conferences will be organized in the universities of Andalusia. For instance, some members of the Math Institute of the University of Granada (IEMath-GR) would propose at least two conferences: one on Differential Geometry/Geometric Analysis and one on Nonlocal Partial Differential Equations.
Furthermore, the Spanish government finances a number of Thematic Research Networks, under the call “Excellence Networks”. The main goal of these networks is to organize events and actions to increase the interaction between the distinct research groups belonging to them. There are currently 17 such Thematic Networks in Mathematics. The Organizing Committee will contact these Networks in order to encourage them to organize satellite conferences on their respective topics.
Finally, and taking into account the good location of Spain and specifically Andalusia with respect to many countries in the North of Africa, as well as the support of CIMPA to this candidacy, the Organizing Committee will promote one or two CIMPA research schools in those countries that would also be satellite events of the 9ECM and would facilitate its participants to attend the conference.
The program of the congress will cover all areas of theoretical and applied mathematics and will be decided by the Scientific Committee of the Conference. We will host Plenary Lectures, Invited Lectures, Prize Lectures and several special Lectures and sessions, Mini-Symposia and Thematic Sessions, as well as Poster Sessions.
The social part of the program includes a Congress banquet and a tourist visit to the Alcázar. The Alcázar of Seville is a UNESCO world heritage site, and it is the oldest royal palace currently in use in Europe
Registrations will be open a few months before the event
The congress fee will cover the delegate's bag, the tourist visit, coffee breaks, reception cocktail and lunches at the conference venue, so that participants can stay at the building during warmer hours, and enjoy the great selection of bars and restaurants at the city centre for dinner. The Congress Banquet will be optional, hence not covered fully by the Congress fee, although the Organization will cover part of the cost: Participants will enjoy a reduced price of 50€ for regular participants and 20€ for students..
The Congress fee for an accompanying person will cover the Congress Banquet, but neither the lunch meals nor the coffee breaks.
PARTICIPANT
ACCOMPANYING PERSON
Around 150 grants will be offered to mathematicians from less favoured countries. Each grant will cover the registration fee and travel and accommodation expenses.
The venue of the Congress would be the School of Engineering of the University of Seville (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Sevilla - ETSI). A magnificent building located at walking distance from the city center, at Isla de la Cartuja, the area of the city in which the Universal Exposition of 1992 took place, and which later became the Technological Park of Seville. It was built for the 1992 Exposition as the Pavilion of 16 American countries, and it hosts the School of Engineering of the University of Seville since 1997.
The School of Engineering, founded in 1963, has nearly 6,000 students and about 400 academics. The Department of Applied Mathematics II, with more than 40 academics, is located at this School.
Several large conferences, and many smaller ones, have been organized at this building. A particularly important example being the 1st Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society, held in June 2003, which had about 1,100 participants and 39 special sessions. This conference was a big success, and their organizers are actively collaborating with this candidacy. The building has a total built surface of 46,000 m2.
The Main Hall, on the ground Floor, will be used for registration desks, areas for lunch and coffee breaks, and stands for companies and mathematical societies.
This distribution of the ground floor has already been used for a similar event: The First Joint Meeting of the RSME and the AMS, in July 2003.
It will host all Plenary Talks, and the Closing Ceremony. It has capacity for 710 people.
The Online Television of the University of Seville ( http://tv.us.es/ ) will broadcast all Plenary Talks and major events, live and online. In case the Auditorium has not enough capacity for a particular event, it will be possible to follow it in other conference rooms by closed–circuit television, and also online in any personal computer.
The building has 48 conference and lecture rooms with a total capacity of 5,231 people. They include:
There are also some meeting rooms available, in particular the ‘sala de juntas’, for 50 people.
There is wifi access in the whole building. Those participants using EDUROAM will have immediate access. The organization will provide wifi connection to all participants.
Room | Capacity |
AUDITORIUM | 710 |
007 | 212 |
208 | 176 |
209 | 176 |
210 | 176 |
301 | 161 |
304 | 161 |
312 | 161 |
Graduation Hall | 138 |
207 | 136 |
211 | 136 |
105 | 114 |
302 | 113 |
303 | 113 |
311 | 113 |
104 | 112 |
003 | 104 |
Plus other 29 lecture rooms, for between 60 and 99 people
In case it is needed, the plenary talks, as well as some of the invited talks would be scheduled at the secondary venue: Barceló Convention Center.
Barceló Convention Center is placed at Hotel Barceló Sevilla Renacimiento, which is at 5 minutes walking (450m) from the main venue of the Congress.
The congress would use the main Conference Hall, with capacity for 1,200 people. This hall can be divided into 3 modules, with capacity for 300, 300 and 400 people, respectively. Simultaneous invited talks and prize winners’ talks can take place at these three modules, which could be converted into a single auditorium to host the plenary talks. The conversion takes 30 minutes and would be done, if necessary, during coffee breaks.
The Maestranza Theatre is located on the banks of the River Guadalquivir, between the Real Maestranza Bullring and the Torre del Oro. It is a privileged environment which has become one of the most prestigious places of Spain, occupied the most famous opera companies in the world with the greatest singers.
Opened in 1991, it has a seating capacity of 1,800 people and a volume space of about 20.000 m3. The theatre has the best machinery available to a European opera house, making it possible to stage the most sophisticated of productions. Its superb acoustics is suitable for any kind of performance, from opera to classical music, popular music and ballet. It has also become a venue of choice for performances by leading figures of flamenco.
The General Manager of the Maestranza Theatre is delighted to host the opening ceremony of the 9 European Congress of Mathematics, where the Otto Neugebauer Prize, the Felix Klein Prize and ten EMS prizes will be awarded. The ceremony will be followed by a reception cocktail held at this wonderful location.
The council meeting will take place at the Carmen de los Chapiteles, located in a unique setting under the Generalife gardens in The Alhambra and facing the charismatic and popular neighborhoods of Albaicín and Sacromonte. Its origins date back to the 14th century, and six centuries later, we can still admire its original coffered ceilings and enjoy the beauty of its Nasrid Gardens.
Meeting facilities will be available for Saturday 13th (in the afternoon) and Sunday 14th July.Around 90 guests are expected to attend the council meeting.
Before the start of the Council Meeting, a guided visit to the Alhambra with a mathematical theme is programmed on Saturday morning. After this visit, lunch will be served at the venue.
On Saturday night dinner will be organized at Carmen de la Victoria, in the Albaicín neighbourhood. This Carmen (a typical house with garden in the historical neighbourhood in Granada) has been owned by the university since 1945 and is currently a student residence and meeting venue. It has an outdoor garden with stunning views of the Alhambra, and it caters to both informal and formal dinners.
The Congress Banquet will take place in one of the emblematic venues of the city. Like in previous conferences, as the First Joint Meeting RSME-AMS, in July 2003, the Banquet will be held at the ‘Casino de la exposición’, which is close to the city centre and to the Main historical building of the University of Seville.
In Baroque style, this building was, together with the Lope de Vega Theatre, the Pavilion of the City of Seville at the Iberian‐American Exposition of 1929.
Andalusian Institute of Mathematics
University of Seville
Mathematics Institute University of Seville
Institute of Mathematics of the University of Granada
Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics
Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research
Catalan Mathematical Society
National Association of Students of Mathematics
Accommodation
A number of hotel rooms will be blocked to guarantee accommodation for EMS 2020 participants. Special care will be taken in selecting hotels with an easy reach of the venue.
How to Get There
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Emergency & Medical Care
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The University of Seville is the second largest Spanish university and the first one in Andalusia in number of students. The University community consists of more than eighty thousand people including students, professors, researchers and administrative professionals.
With over 500 years of history, the University has a long tradition of international and institutional academic collaboration, which is supported by its recognition as a Campus of International Excellence, and its participation in major international programs and projects for exchange of knowledge, experiences and resources in order to deepen the study, teaching, research and institutional relations.
The valuable human capital at the University of Seville, with its nearly 5,000 researchers and more than 400 research groups, has made it possible not only to be the third university in Spain in terms of patent generation and founder, creator and promoter of many important Technological companies, but has also allowed research to become the spearhead of its strategic plan, having being recognized its International Excellence in 13 (out of 22) research fields. Mixed centers such as the National Accelerator Centre (CNA), the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS),Institute of Biomedicine of Seville the Andalusian Center for Research in Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER) and the Scientific Research Centre of Isla de la Cartuja are facilities in which excellent quality research is made and transferred, with the the Advanced Technology Transfer Center at the University of Seville (CENTRIUS) being the most innovative and advanced instance of the Science-Technology-Company-Society integration system.
The US has the largest Library of Andalusia, with more than 1,600,000 volumes, and has been awarded the European Seal of Excellence 300+. The recently inaugurated Center of Learning and Research Resources (CRAI) combines physical resources (consisting of twenty thematic libraries) with virtual spaces, where you can borrow, consult the combined catalog (journals, electronic resources, digitalized old repository and scientific production) for each of the eight university libraries of Andalusia.
Cuadro de texto: School of Engineering LibraryBiblioteca.jpgIts clear vocation of openness to society, has provided the US throughout its history with a rich historical heritage, among which it is worth noting the seven buildings which have been declared of Cultural Interest (BIC). Its renewed cultural offers enrich the program of the city. The University’s commitment to society manifests itself with the offices for Sustainability and Development Cooperation, as well as its wide range of accommodation, dining and day care options. We can also highlight, for its social impact, the best University sports facilities in Spain (with a 5,859 m2 multi-function pavilion), which have the quality certification +400 and recognition from the Sports Center of Andalusia.
For its firm commitment to internationalization, its organizational capacities and its resources, the University of Seville is usually a reference, in the European and global context, as a meeting point of scientists, teachers, researchers and experts from around the world in various fields of knowledge, who come to Seville attracted by its wide range of conferences, seminars, meetings, conferences and international congresses organized by members of the University community.
With almost 2,000 members, the Spanish Mathematical Society (RSME) is one of the largest ones in Europe. Founded in 1911, it has recently celebrated its first centennial. It serves as the fundamental backbone of the Spanish mathematical community and main promoter of many mathematical activities in Spain, the most important ones from the research point of view being the biennial RSME Congress and the (also biennial) RSME Congress for Young Researchers in Mathematics.
The RSME has a privileged relationship with many other European and Latin-American societies, as demonstrated by the numerous joint congresses such as the biennial Iberian Meetings (with the Portuguese Mathematical Society), the joint meeting of the Spanish (RSME-SCM-SEMA) and Italian (UMI-SIMAI) Societies in 2014, the joint meeting with the Belgian and Luxembourgian societies (2012, 2016), the well-established triennial joint meeting with the Mexican Mathematical Society or the joint meeting with the Brazilian societies in December 2015, and later with the Argentinian Mathematical Union in 2017. These meetings represent fundamental events for the exchange of ideas and collaboration between mathematicians from Spanish institutions and other countries.
The numerous projects, meetings and activities of the RSME, as well as those of the other three main Mathematical Societies in Spain (the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics, SEMA; the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, SEIO and the Catalan Mathematical Society, SCM), are a good reflection of the excellent health of the mathematical community in our country.
Seville has the particularity to have three UNESCO world heritage sites in close proximity of one another: Cathedral, Alcázar and “Archivo de Indias”, with almost 300 years of unique documents on the relation between Europe and America (whc.unesco.org/en/list/383/). In the tourist visit one of them will be visited, the Alcázar of Seville. .
The Alcazar of Seville is one of the oldest royal palaces still in use in the world. A palace that has lived through different eras, from the late eleventh century to the modern day, and from its walls we can appreciate the influence of the cultures that have passed through the city of Seville. The visit promises an opportunity to appreciate the beauty and the secrets of this palace; a stroll through the palace paths, in the shade of the orange and myrtle trees; a walk through history by discovering each corner of this architectural wonder.(see www.alcazarsevilla.org/en/).