International Centre for Mathematical Sciences 2024
Lead Research Organisation:
Heriot-Watt University
Department Name: S of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Abstract
The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), Edinburgh, is a world-leading centre for facilitating the production and exchange of ideas in the mathematical sciences. Together with the Isaac Newton Institute (INI), it is a key part of the UK infrastructure that supports high-level research, innovation, international collaboration, career development, knowledge exchange, and public engagement. The main vehicle for achieving this is the hosting of workshops, collaborative research projects, and other supporting events at its facilities in Edinburgh and elsewhere in the UK. These activities will form the core of the work funded by the grant requested from EPSRC. The grant will support the participants travel and accommodation expenses and contribute to the costs of the administration, staff, equipment, and facilities of ICMS.
Publications
Chung H
(2024)
Entanglement entropies in the abelian arithmetic Chern-Simons theory
in Communications in Number Theory and Physics
| Description | Article for Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator Radar |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://radar.gesda.global/mathematics-for-humanity |
| Description | International Secretary, London Mathematical Society |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The International Secretary of the LMS is in charge of all international relations and educational/research collaborations between the UK and other regions. |
| Description | Membership in various prize committees |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | These prizes are all for the highest level of distinction: Hirst Prize (history of mathematics), Zeeman prize (communication of mathematics), Ho-Am prize, research in science. They are all expected to have high impact on higher education and research. |
| Description | Membership of Council, London Mathematical Society |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The Council makes numerous decisions that affect the research and education of mathematical scientists and students in the UK. |
| Description | Selection Panel, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | This fellowship is critical in the training and improvement of early-career researchers in the sciences in the UK. |
| Description | Collaboration with Homomorphic Computer Research Center, Seoul National University |
| Organisation | Seoul National University |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Homomorphic Computer Research Center, Seoul National University is a premier institute in Korea for cryptology. They would like to send various researchers to Edinburgh to contribute to your research events. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Homomorphic Computer Research Center, Seoul National University is a premier institute in Korea for cryptology. They would like to send various researchers to Edinburgh to contribute to your research events. |
| Impact | We are planning exchange of researchers for collaborative visits. |
| Start Year | 2025 |
| Description | Collaboration with Isaac Newton Institute |
| Organisation | Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The ICMS collaborates continuously with the Isaac Newton Institute on governance and policy, for example, by the two directors sitting on the scientific committee of the other institution. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The ICMS collaborates continuously with the Isaac Newton Institute on governance and policy, for example, by the two directors sitting on the scientific committee of the other institution. |
| Impact | The ICMS and INI influence each other's scientific programme and coordinate programmes for maximal impact. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Collaboration with Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics |
| Organisation | Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics |
| Country | Viet Nam |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | ICMS and VIASM coordinate programmes, especially those involving exchange between Europe and South-East Asia. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ICMS and VIASM coordinate programmes, especially those involving exchange between Europe and South-East Asia. |
| Impact | The two institutions are in constant communication about events happening in SE Asia with ICMS support, such at the Retreat for Woman in Applied Mathematics that will happen in September 2025. |
| Start Year | 2021 |