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Several researchers from Rényi Institute received awards as part of the Section of Mathematics' January series of festive events

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences organizes a number of scientific and educational events to mark the 200th anniversary of its founding. In January 2026, the Section of Mathematics takes center stage. Several researchers from Rényi Institute will give presentations.

The Department of Mathematical Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences awaits its visitors with a rich program, lectures, film screenings and an exhibition in January. On the opening day, January 5, the topic will be: Artificial Intelligence through a Mathematical Eye. The first lecture will be given by Anna Christ Miranda (University of California – UC Berkeley), a member of the Rényi Institute research team.

What is the Alfréd Rényi Mathematical Research Institute all about and why are so many people averse to mathematics, when we are considered a superpower in this very discipline? — this is the question explored in the RTL film.

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.