The Center for Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (CMTP) is an Italian institution supporting research in
mathematics
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and theoretical physics. The CMTP was founded on November 17, 2009 as an interdepartmental research center of the three Roman universities:
Sapienza
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,
Tor Vergata
Tor Vergata University of Rome, also known as the University of Rome II ( it, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"), is a public research university located in Rome, Italy. Located in the southeastern suburb of Rome, the university combine ...
and
Roma Tre
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. The CMTP's director is Roberto Longo, from the Mathematics Department of Tor Vergata University, and its scientific secretaries are Alberto De Sole, from
Sapienza University
The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a public research university located in Rome, Ita ...
, and Alessandro Giuliani, from
Roma Tre University
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Activities of the center
The CMTP promotes scientific research by organizing workshops, congresses, and periods of thematic research; sending invitations to scientists; and assigning study grants. The CMTP's goal is to attract foreign scientists of international prestige and young talented foreigners to Rome by offering a natural place for scientific education and a base of cultural interchange with other scientific centers abroad.
The opening activity of the center was to present the Seminal Interactions between Mathematics and Physics conference hosted by the
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
The Accademia dei Lincei (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed", but anglicised as the Lincean Academy) is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rom ...
in Rome. The invited speakers counted, among others, four Fields Medal">fields medalists
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; Alain Connes, Andrei Okounkov, Stanislav Smirnov and Cédric Villani, C. Villani; and an Abel prize winner, Isadore Singer.
As part of the conference, the center organized two evening public lectures for the general audience, held by Ludvig Faddeev and Singer.
Among its activities, the center runs the Levi Civita colloquia.