Hungary's HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics will become part of a new Max Planck Center (MPC) for mathematical sciences, alongside Yale University and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, the Alfréd Rényi Institute said on Wednesday.
The Max Planck Center is one of the highest-level international collaborations within the Max Planck research network, reserved for outstanding, proven institutions, the Renyi institute said in a statement. The centers bring together leading researchers worldwide around joint scientific programmes.
The initiative aims to foster long-term joint research, combine complementary expertise and methods, and promote the exchange of researchers and PhD students. It will also organise joint workshops, summer schools and training programmes, share research infrastructure and pursue collaborative applications for international funding.
The collaboration in mathematics under the Max Planck Society will initially run for five years, with the possibility of a five-year extension depending on results. The new MPC, named Discrete and Continuous Structures in Mathematics and Data Science (DisCoS), will operate across three locations - Budapest, Leipzig and New Haven - and is set to launch on Jan 1, 2027. Funding will be provided by the Max Planck Society, HUN-REN and Yale.
András Stipsicz, director-general of the Rényi Institute and Hungarian co-director of the new MPC, said the establishment of this prestigious center was another positive signal for Hungarian mathematics. He said it offered a major opportunity to strengthen international integration and recognition while driving new scientific discoveries.
The partnership places a particular focus on young researchers, providing PhD students and postdocs with extensive research opportunities in Budapest, Germany and the US, effectively supporting their career paths, he added.
According to the statement, the center will conduct exploratory mathematical research, uniting scholars from the fields of geometry, group theory, graph theory, probability, partial differential equations, data science and mathematical physics.
The 23 Max Planck Centers operating in 14 countries partner with the world's leading universities and research institutes, including Princeton University, the University of Tokyo, University College London and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University. Their research spans particle physics, artificial intelligence, climate science, biochemistry and the social sciences. The Rényi-MPI-Yale MPC is the first such center in the field of mathematics.
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