The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences hosted the 16th International Conference on “Digital Representation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage” (DiPP2026). The event took place from 24 to 27 September in Burgas under the patronage of UNESCO and Burgas Municipality, and with the support of National Science Fund. The conference featured presentations of scientific and applied research, innovations and projects in the field of digital documentation, archiving, presentation and preservation of global and national tangible and intangible cultural and scientific heritage. The forum brought together researchers from Bulgaria, the USA, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Serbia, Romania and other countries to exchange experiences, ideas and findings. A special focus this year was placed on the [...]

From September 1 to 4, 2026, the Thirteenth International Conference “New Directions in Applications of Differential Equations in Sciences (NTADES2026)” was held in the city of Sozopol. This year, the conference was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Academician Petar Popivanov, a prominent mathematician in the field of differential equations with international recognition. NTADES2026 was organized in cooperation with the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). During the conference, Academician Petar Popivanov delivered a plenary talk on problems of Goursat and Darboux for the string equation. Plenary talks were also given by famous mathematicians in the field of partial differential equations. In connection with the applications of differential equations in artificial intelligence, a plenary talk was delivered by Prof. Christos Volos from the Aristotle [...]

Scientists from leading universities and institutes in the Americas, Asia, and Europe participated in the fifth international conference “Numerical Methods for Scientific Computations and Advanced Applications” – NMSCAA’26.  The forum took place from June 15 to 18 in Sozopol and was organized by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of BAS. The conference was opened by Corresponding Member Svetozar Margenov. Traditionally, the topics covered included: modeling, simulation and optimization; multiscale and multiphysics problems; robust iterative methods and sparse matrix computation; fractional differential equations and non-local problems; parallel numerical methods and scalable algorithms; advanced applications in science and engineering. The scientific program also included presentations on new areas of research, such as synergies between parallel numerical methods and algorithms and artificial intelligence methods, new approaches [...]

Awards for outstanding research and publication achievements have been presented to doctoral students at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of BAS (IICT) during a ceremony held today. This is the first time such an award has been established with the aim of encouraging and recognizing young researchers at the institute. The chair of the awards committee, Prof. Stanislav Harizanov, expressed his gratitude to the doctoral students who participated in the competition and their academic advisors. With best wishes for continued success in science, the awards were presented by Corresponding Member Margenov to: Miryana Raykovska, supervised by Prof. Ivan Georgiev, for her work on the creation of digital twins using high-resolution microstructural models obtained through industrial computed tomography. The applications of the results obtained [...]