Life and Matter Sciences activities

Mathematics

Libro Blanco de las Matemáticas

The Ramón Areces Foundation and the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society published in 2020 the "Libro Blanco de las Matemáticas". This is an exhaustive and rigorous analysis of the situation and the impact of this science in our country. Participants in the online presentation of the work were Raimundo Pérez-Hernández, Director of the Ramón Areces Foundation; Francisco Marcellán, president of RSME; Alfonso Novales, of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences; and Carlos Kenig, President of the International Mathematical Union. In a recorded greeting, the Minister of Science and Innovation, Pedro Duque, stated that "the Libro Blanco de las Matemáticas makes a rigorous analysis and sets out interesting conclusions for the improvement of this science in Spain." 

The presentation was followed by a colloquium in which Luis José Rodríguez Muñiz (University of Oviedo); Mireia López Beltrán (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya); and David Martín de Diego (Royal Spanish Mathematical Society) addressed the need to formalize an education settlement for science and debated essential aspects for the improvement of the teaching of Mathematics, key to the development of the digital society.

Mathematics in Robotics’ New Developments

Nowadays we are beginning to envision a future in which humanity will be surrounded by machines with levels of mobility, perception and practical intelligence that can exceed, in certain circumstances, that of human beings. These robotic systems are already changing modern society, but their margin of transformation is still hard to imagine with the new developments in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence that are coming in the near future. Carlos Balaguer Bernaldo de Quirós, Professor of the Robotics Laboratory of the Carlos III University of Madrid participated with Carme Torras, from the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (CSIC-UPC), in this round table.