Claude CIBILS ( Université Montpellier 2 & Université Nice Sophia Antipolis ) Director

1. Claude CIBILS (UniversitéMontpellier 2 & UniversitéNice Sophia Antipolis) Director Steering Council, Malaga, January 2012

2. CIMPA’s mission • To promote international cooperation for the benefit of developing in higher education and research in mathematics and its applications, or in closely related subjects • to this end CIMPA organizes research schools and supports schools or networks in relation with continental mathematical societies • its actions are concentrated at places where there is the will to further develop mathematics and where a research project is feasible • a main endeavour is to maintain three equilibria : gender, geography and subject

3. CIMPA’s history • CIMPA is: • a non-profit organization created in 1978 with office at Nice in France, made by mathematicians for helping developing research in mathematics • mainly funded by France, the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolisand Spain • a category 2 centre of UNESCO since the 90’s

4. A new era of international cooperation • In March 2010, a convention was signed with MICINN (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain), opening up new perspectives: • it allows CIMPA to respond to more requests from developing countries • it is a first step towards having new European member states: Norwayand Switzerland in 2012. • In December 2010 a convention was signed with Argentina. • In May 2011 with Hassan II Academy of Morocco • In June 2011 with African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Cape Town

5. Laboratoire d’excellence CARMIN • CIMPA is member of CARMIN, Centre d’accueil et de rencontres mathématiques, a LABEX 2011 directed by CédricVillani (Fields medalist 2010). • The other partners are • CIRMCentre international de rencontresmathématiques (Marseille) • IHÉS Institut de Hautesétudesscientifiques (Paris) • IHP Institut Henri Poincaré (Paris)

6. CIMPA’s organization • CIMPA is a category 2 UNESCO centre • with permanent institutional members (UNESCO, French and Spanish Ministries, University of Nice), and 6 mathematicians in its Governing Board • with a 4 members Executive Board, a Scientific Council and a Steering Council • with a Director and a Director’s Management team: several Regional Scientific Officers and an Officer in charge of Communication

8. Executive Board President: TSOU Sheung Tsun University of Oxford (Mathematicalphysics) Vice‐President: Alain DAMLAMIAN Université Paris 12 (Nonlinearanalysis, nonlinear partial diff. equations) Secretary: Jean-Marc BARDET Université Paris 1 (Probability and statistics) Treasurer: Bernard ROUSSELET Université de Nice (Nonlinear vibrations, optimisation)

9. Scientific Council • Chairman: Enrique ZUAZUA (Spain) (Applied Maths) • Jean-Marc AZAÏS (France) (Probability, statistics) • Viviane BALADI (France) (Dynamicalsystems) • Edy Tri BASKORO (Indonesia) (Graph theory) • Suzanne BRENNER (USA) (Numericalanalysis) • Maria Luiza FERNANDEZ (Spain) (Differentialgeometry) • Vaughan JONES (USA) (Fields Medal) • Orlando LOPES (Brazil) (PDE, Non linearanalysis) • Youssef OUKNINE (Marocco) (Probability, stochasticequations) • Carlos DI PRISCO (Venezuela) (Logic) • Ragni PIENE (Norway) (Algebraicgeometry) • Ramdorai SUJATHA (India) (Numbertheory, K-Theory)

10. Management team • Director : Claude CIBILS (U. Montpellier 2, on leave at U. Nice Sophia-Antipolis) • Regional scientific officers: • Sub-Saharan Africa:Marie-Françoise ROY (U. Rennes 1) • Mediterranean: Ahmad EL SOUFI (U. Tours) • Latin America and Caribbean: Claude CIBILS • South-east Asia: Christian MAUDUIT (U. Aix Marseille II) • India and West Asia: Jorge JIMENEZ URROZ (U. Politècnica de Catalunya) • Transversal Regional scientific officer:Mercedes SILES MOLINA (U. Malaga) • Communication: Rosane USHIROBIRA (U. Bourgogne, on leave at INRIA Lille)

11. Scientific partners Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis (UNS), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Centre National de la recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Société Mathématique de France (SMF),Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI), International Mathematical Union (IMU), International Council for Industrial and AppliedMathematics (ICIAM), EuropeanMathematical Society (EMS), International Centre for TheoreticalPhysics (ICTP), Union Mathématique Africaine (UMA), South East AsianMathematical Society (SEAMS), Union Mathématique d'Amérique Latine et Caraïbes (UMALCA), Comité National Français des Mathématiciens (CNFM), Centro de ModelamientoMatematico (CMM), Bordeauxthèque, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Comité Español de Matemáticas (CEMAT), Real SociedadMatemáticaEspañola (RSME), SocietatCatalana de Matemàtique (SCM), SociedadEspañola de MatemáticaAplicada (SEMA), SociedadEspañola de Estadística e Investigaciónoperativa (SEIO)

12. Numbers • 203 research schools • 100 participations in higher level education and research networks (seminars, workshops and doctoral courses) • Countries • 18 from Africa • 12 from Asia • 13 from South America and Caribbean • 8 from the Middle East • 5 from Central and Eastern Europe 11637 young mathematicians 2241 speakers, 1050 from Southern countries

13. Budget 2011 • 364 K € • 70% from MESR (France) • 5% from MICINN (Spain) • 3% from UNESCO • 6% from CNRS • 13% from CARMIN Half of budget for Africa (Sub-Saharan and Mediterranean) • paid from budget : one and a half full time secretaries • not included in budget: salary of director, of informatics responsible • team (scientific advisors), committees, lecturers: voluntary basis

14. CIMPA Research Schools OUGADOUGOU - 2009

15. CIMPA Research Schools • Open call every year • proposals for two weeks schools come from everywhere • some are encouraged by CIMPA members • Scientific Council analyzes, evaluates and make recommendations • Steering Council select about 15 to 20 research school projects Schools are organized locally with scientific and administrative help from CIMPA, in a North-South-South format

16. CIMPA Research Schools • Young participants from neighboring countries apply, some are selected by the organizers with CIMPA and they receive full CIMPA financial support • Lecturers and speakers are not paid, they use mostly their own funding for travel • CIMPA helps through letters, discussions with organizers, explanation to authorities, fund raising etc.

17. CIMPA Research Schools • Average budget for a RS: 40k€ CIMPA participation is about 12k€, mainly for young people from developing countries • A four pages Road Map helps from the very beginning to have a successful RS with interchanges, discussions and insuring an open future for participants • Each RS has two final reports. One from the main local organizers, the other from CIMPA representative.

18. CIMPA Research Schools Mathematics are a continuum from Fundamental ones to Applied ones, passing through application to other sciences. Subjects can be at the core of foundations or of applications, or at a MIxed zone and some are combined with interactions. We have used the Classification by MathSciNet and Zentralblatt in collaboration with the Governing Board and the Management Team. 2012 : F=6 A=6 MI=5 2005 - 2011

19. CIMPA Research Schools ALEXANDRIA - 2009

20. 2012

22. EMALCAs • In 1998 UMALCA (Union de Matematicos de America Latina y del Caribe) began EMALCAs in Venezuela. • A week long mathematical school - level is end of Bachelor or Master. • At places where mathematics begins to become strong. • Main purpose : “to put young in contact withaccurate subjects of today interest, to stimulate those which put themselves on light and between them encourage some to pursue with a PhD.” • Lecturers are from neighbouring countries. • Open call by UMALCA and transparent selection process. • CIMPA has a cooperation agreement and provides support. • Recent ones: Salta (Argentina), San Salvador (El Salvador), Trujillo (Peru), Hidalgo (Mexico), Asuncion (Paraguay), Merida (Venezuela).

23. Some new initiatives Short Mathematical Visits (with CARMIN) Launched in 2011. Intended for young mathematicians (pre or post-doc) willing to visit one of CARMIN’s centres with a possible extension to France, Norway, Spainor Switzerland. The application requires a precise program, a motivation letter and letters from confirmed mathematicians. A scientific committee will select candidates for 2012.

24. Some new initiatives EMA Encouraging African schools (using EMALCA’s experience) by UMA after the first one in Madagascar in 2011. IV CLAM Latin-american mathematical congress in Cordoba (August 2012). CIMPA supports and helped for the participation of CédricVillani. SEAMS CIMPA has participated in December to itsannual meeting. Encouraging SEAMS-school (using EMALCA’s experience), after the first one in Bangkokin 2011