The University Institute for Mathematical Research at the University of Seville (IMUS) takes its name from Professor Antonio de Castro Brzezicki, a driving force behind mathematics studies at our university and a leading figure in Spanish mathematics.
The objectives of IMUS are to organise and develop research activities in all fields and aspects of mathematics and its applications, to stimulate such research qualitatively and quantitatively, to support the various mathematics research groups at the University of Seville and to encourage collaboration between them, with other national or international research groups, promoting in particular interdisciplinarity, and with the scientific, technological, health, financial and other sectors that require the assistance of mathematics.
The objectives of IMUS are articulated through the following functions:
- To organize and programme research activities of all kinds in the field of mathematics and related fields. In particular, IMUS will promote activities in which several research groups participate or which are developed in collaboration with other institutions and public and private entities.
- To design and develop R&D&I projects that use mathematics as their fundamental basis.
- To organize and develop doctoral programmes – both the training period and the research period – as well as its own undergraduate and postgraduate courses in mathematics and its applications to other disciplines, in accordance with the procedures set out in the Statutes of the University of Seville.
- To organize specialization and refresher courses and seminars.
- Disseminate the results of research and activities carried out.
- Promote the transfer of knowledge and application of mathematics in all fields and provide technical and scientific advice on issues related to the application of mathematics to all types of activities.
- Promote, streamline and intensify the exchange of information on mathematical research among researchers at the University of Seville and foster scientific relations between them and with researchers from other national and foreign centres.
- Provide material and organisational support to research groups and projects led by IMUS members.