The center

Aims of the Center

The Center intends:
to gather Italian and foreign researchers, both junior and senior, with the idea of fostering collaboration and exchange of ideas, producing researchers specializing in interdisciplinary endeavors,

to organize periods of several months during which there will be a focus on a research area of particular relevance, including pure mathematics, applications in the natural and social sciences, e.g. physics, biology, finance and economics. These periods of specialization will bring together Italian and foreign scientists and will also provide an environment for the training of researchers from developing countries,

to promote new ideas and research at the frontiers of interdisciplinary studies,

to promote the formation of collaborative research nuclei from among those present, to advance particular areas of mathematics, their application to the natural and social sciences, and their application to problems in the industrial and technological arena.

The Center intends also to contribute to the 'cultural mathematical formation' of teachers and the public; in fact, while for centuries some familiarity with mathematics was regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person, nowadays, when mathematics pervade both science and technology more than ever, its diffusion amongst the public has lagged.