Three French mathematicians are meeting with Bulgarian pupils, students, lecturers and scientists from today to 5 June at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The event brings together some of the most famous and world-renowned mathematicians. Prof. Cédric Villani, winner of the Fields Medal in 2010, Prof. Bernard Teissier and Prof. Patrick Popescu-Pampu are participating in the meetings which are held under the title "Why become a researcher?" and aim to promote the career of the mathematician scientist among Bulgarian young people who have a strong interest in mathematics. The Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Corr. Memb. Peter Boyvalenkov, opened the event by stressing that the French scientists will share their experience and expressed hope that this would be the first step to [...]

The President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva opened the international conference "Women in Mathematics in South-Eastern Europe". The scientific forum takes place from 11 to 13 December at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of BAS. Mathematics is a science that has applications in life, said Corr. Memb. Slavcheva and highlighted its attracting many young women mathematicians. The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS-Sofia) at the institute is organising the event. The President congratulated the scientists for the initiative which had become a tradition and was being held for the fifth time. Corr. Memb. Slavcheva wished the participants interesting discussions and new partnerships. The "Women in Mathematics in South-Eastern Europe" initiative aims at promoting the role of women scientists working [...]

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has awarded corresponding member Peter Boyvalenkov with the "Marin Drinov" honorary medal on a ribbon. The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Member of the Academy, presented the award at a ceremony held today at BAS. The Honorary Medal is awarded to Prof. Boyvalenkov for his contribution within his scientific, scientific-organizational and expert activities. Corr. Memb. Peter Boyvalenkov, DSc, is the Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of BAS. He is one of the most respected, in Bulgaria and abroad, representatives of the Bulgarian school of coding theory, author of 117 scientific publications. Corr. Memb. Boyvalenkov is one of the most active participants in the preparation of the national team for the International Mathematical Olympiad. He is Vice-Chairman [...]

Georgi Shopov The PhD student Georgi Shopov from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT-BAS) took part in the world's leading conference in the field of natural language processing - "Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing" which was held from 12-16 November in Miami, USA. At the conference, Georgi Shopov presented new scientific results in the field of language modeling achieved at IICT-BAS and forming the main part of his dissertation. 1271 papers were selected for the main conference from 6105 submitted. Georgi Shopov's paper, co-authored with Associate Professor Stefan Gerdjikov from IICT-BAS and FMI of SU “St. Kliment Ohridski” were among the 168 awarded with an oral report. In recent years, language models have established [...]