Mathematics in Focus at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

In January, mathematics takes center stage at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), where the Department of Mathematical Sciences welcomes visitors with public lectures, film screenings, and an exhibition showcasing the world-renowned achievements of Hungarian mathematicians, organizers told MTI.

As part of a series of celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the founding of the MTA, each month a different scientific department will have the opportunity to present its historical roots, the most important achievements, challenges and directions in its field of science.

On January 14, András Némethi will give an academic lecture entitled 'How does lattice homology appear in different branches of mathematics?' On January 19, there will be a panel discussion on the ERC (European Research Council) mentoring program with the participation of András Stipsicz, director of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, and Miklós Abért, senior research fellow in the institute's Algebra Department.

On January 21, the focus will be on the most important figures and achievements in Hungarian mathematics over the past two centuries: Péter Pál Pálfy will talk about Farkas Bolyai and his son, János Bolyai, two world-famous Hungarian mathematicians; Zoltán Füredi will analyze the international success of Hungarian mathematics in his lecture entitled 150 Years at the Forefront of the World, while Miklós Simonovits and András Stipsicz will present the defining theorems of Hungarian discrete mathematics schools and the Rényi Institute.

At the event organized by the Mathematical Scientific Committee on January 22, the major questions of number theory and analysis will be discussed: János Pintz will talk about the famous unsolved problems of prime number theory, Péter Pál Pach will give a lecture on the path from the Erdős-Turán conjecture to the polynomial method, while Gergely Harcos will present a modern mathematical approach to an ancient problem using automorphic forms.

The event will conclude with lectures by András Biró, Endre Szemerédi, and Imre Z. Ruzsa, the former discussing Diophantine approximation and the latter two recalling some of Pál Erdős's favorite problems.

On the afternoon of January 28, those interested can listen to a conversation between Abel Prize-winning mathematicians Endre Szemerédi and László Lovász.