The Basque Center of Applied Mathematics (BCAM) is a research center on applied mathematics, created with the support of the Basque Government and the University of the Basque Country. The BCAM headquarters are in Alda. Mazarredo, 14 in

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Background

In January 2007, the Department of Education, Universities and Research of the

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set up

Ikerbasque Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, is a foundation promoted by the Basque Government in 2007 to contribute to the development of scientific research in the Basque Country by attracting researchers of excellence and consolidating career ...

, the Basque Foundation for Science, which was charged with three objectives: the attraction and recovery of front-rank, consolidated researchers; the creation of new research centers with standards of excellence, and social outreach for science. The creation and current activity of BCAM – the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics - fall within the framework of the second of these objectives. In early 2008,

commissioned

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to carry out a prospective study on the viability of setting up a center for mathematical research in the Basque Country. In March, 2008, the Ikerbasque Board of Trustees decided to go ahead with the creation of such a center as part of the BERC program (Basque Excellent Research Centres), later to become known as BCAM – Basque Center for Applied Mathematics. At the same time, the first international call for submissions for posts of director, managers and scientists was made.Official centers grantees list
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, given the extensive industrial fabric that the region has had traditionally as well as its current development of R+D+i activities. BCAM was officially created as a non-profit Association on September 1, 2008, and backed by the following three institutions: Ikerbasque, the

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(UPV-EHU), Innobasque, the Basque Foundation for Innovation and The

Government.

Scientific Directors of BCAM till today

* Jose Antonio Lozano - In charge since January 10, 2019 * Luis Vega González - from May 8, 2013 till January 9, 2019. * Tomás Chacón, from October 1, 2012 till March 10, 2013. *

, from September 1, 2008 till July 31, 2012.

Research lines

The scientific program is structured in 5 research areas. These areas are intended to be the catalyst between basic research and technology transfer: * Computational Mathematics (CM) * Mathematical Modelling With Multidisciplinary Applications (M3A) * Mathematical Physics (MP) * Partial Differential Equations, Control And Numerics (DCN) * Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DS)

References

External links

* http://www.bcamath.org {{authority control Applied mathematics Mathematical institutes Research institutes in the Basque Country (autonomous community)

Background

Scientific Directors of BCAM till today

Research lines

See also

References

External links