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Endre Szemerédi spoke about combinatorics, number theory, algorithm theory, but also about the most important stages of his life - from a professional perspective — in the program Closer to Mathematics.

The announcement of the July 2026 Focused Workshops at the Erdős Center is now available.

János Pach, research professor at the Rényi Institute, gave an interview to Trend FM. The occasion for the conversation was that this year Maryna Viazovska, the Ukrainian mathematician who became world-famous for solving the 8- and 24-dimensional sphere packing problem, received the László Fejes Tóth Award and its accompanying medal. János Pach spoke in the program about Maryna Viazovska's achievements and career, as well as about the renowned Hungarian mathematician László Fejes Tóth.

The Rényi Institute's Christmas party was a great success. András Stipsicz opened the program with a brief review of the past year. Among other things, the institute's director spoke about the changes that will take place in Hungarian academic life in 2025.

NeurIPS is the world's leading scientific conference on machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is a huge success that the AI group of the Rényi Institute was also included in the Spotlight program, one of the featured categories of the event held in San Diego. Christ Miranda Anna, Csiszárik Adrián, Becsó Gergely, and Varga Dániel presented their results last week to Meta, Google, other leading IT companies, and the scientific elite in the field, according to an article in HVG.

"With this algorithm, we will be able to see something that no one has ever seen before" – Hungarian success in an international quantum competition – this was the title of an article in Telex about András Gilyén and his team reaching the final seven in the XPRIZE Quantum Applications competition.

The finalists of the XPRIZE Quantum Applications competition have been announced, and András Gilyén, a mathematician specializing in quantum computing at the HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute for Mathematical Research, is among the seven best research teams.

The research group of the Rényi Institute, Anna Christ Miranda, Adrián Csiszárik, Gergely Becsó and Dániel Varga, was invited to the world's most prestigious artificial intelligence conference. During their research, they discovered that language models do not store isolated facts, but capture the relationships of the world along interconnected conceptual patterns - their paper on this was presented a few hours ago.

How did the Rényi Institute, originally established for applied mathematics, become a world-renowned research center employing theoretical mathematicians? What work did renowned mathematicians of the past — Alfréd Rényi, Pál Erdős, András Hajnal, and others — do to make research of such high quality possible here? Research professor Péter Pál Pálfy, former director of the institute, was a guest on Trend FM and Radiocafé, with a conversation revolving around the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Rényi Institute.

The HUN-REN Rényi Institute invites applications for a permanent (tenure) position as Research Mathematician. The primary criteria for evaluating applications are research excellence, publication quality, and international recognition. Additional considerations include a demonstrated ability to secure research funding, to lead a research group, and to contribute actively to a scientific organization, whether within mathematics in the strict sense or in interdisciplinary fields.