Project: Consolider i-MATH
Marco Antonio López Cerdá
Research Coordinator
Index
• i-MATH Project
• Organization Chart
• Operation
• Activities
• Parameters
i-MATH Project
Aims
Ingenio MATHEMATICA (i-MATH) is a CONSOLIDER
singular research project for the period 2006-2011.
It proposes a complete activity research program for Spanish
mathematics, with the purpose of promoting and carrying out
strategic actions that, qualitatively and quantitatively, increase the
presence of Spanish mathematics in the international system of
science, technology, business, etc.
i-MATH is an initiative promoted and financed by the Spanish
Ministry of Education and Science with a budget of 7,500,000 €.
The official start of the i-MATH project is the 3rd of October,
2006 and the end is the 30th of April, 2012.
Aims
•To improve the role of mathematical research in the Spanish system of science,
technology and innovation.
•To increase and promote the activities of transference of knowledge and
technology of the Spanish mathematicians.
•To promote the use of computational methods both inside and outside
mathematical research.
•To achieve greater recognition for Spanish research groups at an international
level and to increase the presence of Spanish mathematicians in strategic areas.
•To create a Doctorate School of international status.
•To use research and innovation to improve education and mathematical training
at all levels.
•To make the results of mathematical research more accessible both from within
and from outside Mathematics.
Tools
Platforms:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
FUTURE
CONSULTING
COMPUTING
EDU
WEB
Thematic actions:
6. i-MATH International Graduate School (MIGS)
7. i-MATH Intensive Research Programs (PMII)
Cross-sectional Services of Support:
8. Service of Support to the Organization of Encounter
and Meetings (SARE)
9. Service of Support to the Institutes of Research and
the Thematic Networks(SAIRT)
10. Web i-MATH
(www.i-math.org)
Platforms and i-MATH
actions
MATHEMATICA FUTURE: Promoting transversal research lines of interaction among emerging
scientific and technological areas.
MATHEMATICA CONSULTING: Promoting the knowledge transfer and technology activities
of Spanish mathematicians.
MATHEMATICA COMPUTING: Promoting the use of computational methods
MATHEMATICA EDU: Using the research and innovation in Mathematical education to improve
the mathematical teaching.
MATHEMATICA INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE SCHOOL (MIGS): Creating a Doctoral
school of reference in the international.
i-MATH INTENSIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMS (PMII): Providing Spanish Mathematics with
greater visibility at an international level and increase the presence of Spanish mathematics in
emerging and/or strategic areas.
SERVICE OF SUPPORT TO THE ORGANIZATION OF ENCOUNTER AND MEETINGS
(SARE):This service is open to thematic meetings of different types: Exploratory meetings,
Modelling Weeks, Forums ‘Mathematics-Company of Mathematica Consulting’, etc.
SERVICE OF SUPPORT TO THE INSTITUTES OF RESEARCH AND THE THEMATIC
NETWORKS (SAIRT): Supporting Research Institutes and Thematic Networks created as the
result of alliances of different research groups belonging to i-MATH.
MATHEMATICA WEB: Increasing the accessibility of the results of the mathematical research.
Nodes
Node CIEM: The International Centre of Mathematical Meetings (CIEM) a joint initiative of the
University of Cantabria and the Castro Urdiales Town Hall with the principal founding purpose of
promoting quality mathematical research in its basic, applied and computational aspects.
Node CRM: The Mathematical Research Centre (CRM) is a consortium formed by the Catalonia
Generalitat and the Institut d’Estudis Catalans. The purpose of the CRM is to foment mathematical
research both qualitatively and quantitatively.
Node ICM: Joint institute between CSIC and three universities in Madrid: UAM, UCM and UC3M.
Its purpose is to develop high-level research.
Node IMUB: Institute created in the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Barcelona.
Coordinator node of the Platform MATHEMATICA COMPUTING.
Node CESGA: Composed of research teams in areas of the National Applied Mathematics, Statistics
and Operations Research from the three Galician universities coordinated by the CESGA. Increase
the presence of mathematical methods and techniques in the productive sectors. Coordinator node of
the Platform MATHEMATICA CONSULTING and collaborator node in COMPUTING
MATHEMATICA contributor.
Research Program
A. From basic research to applications
A.1. Enigmas to decipher: Fundamental Mathematics and Cryptography.
A.2. From Classical Analysis to the digital era.
A.3. New frontiers in Algebra and Geometry.
B. How to understand the physical world
B.1. From Geometry and Topology to Physics and Cosmological models.
B.2. Mathematics, Dynamics and Complexity.
B.3. Partial Differential Equations as a tool for modeling.
C. The essential computational support
C.1. Intelligent structures and materials: Design & control.
C.2. Math software: Mathematics as the basic foundation for Scientific and
High Performance Computing.
C.3. New techniques and horizons in Computational Mathematics.
D. Direct applications to society
D.1. Mathematics and the information society and communications.
D.2. Statistical models and their applications.
D.3. Stochastic modeling of complex evolving phenomena and configurations
in random media.
D.4. Optimization and decision-making support techniques.
D.5. New horizons in Mathematics education and training.
D.6. Bringing Mathematics closer to society.
Organization Chart
Organization Chart
Research Coordinators:
Enrique Zuazua Iriondo (October 2006 – July 2008)
Marco Antonio López Cerdá (July 2008)
Management Center:
University of Cantabria
Steering Committee
Nodes:
CESGA, CIEM, CRM, ICMat, IMUB
Node Committee
Platform Committees
Research Groups: 330 (1.784 researches)
Steering Committee
Alfredo Bermúdez de Castro (October 2006- February 2009, USC)
Joaquim Bruna (October 2006,UAB)
María Jesús Carro (February 2009, UB)
Eduardo Casas (October 2006,UC)
Antonio Durán (October 2006, USC)
Laureano González Vega (October 2006 – September 2007)
Àngel Jorba (February 2009, UB)
Manuel de León (October 2006, CSIC)
Marco Antonio López-Cerda (October 2006,UA)
Ignacio Luengo (October 2006, UCM)
Consuelo Martínez (October 2006, UOV)
Gabriel Navarro (February 2009, UV)
Peregrina Quintela (February 2009, USC)
Francisco Santos Leal (September 2007, UC)
Marta Sanz-Solé (October 2006 – February 2009, UB)
Oriol Serra (October 2006 – February 2009, UPC)
Carles Simó (October 2006 – February 2009, UB)
Luis Vega (October 2006, EHU-UPV)
Enrique Zuazua (October 2006 – June 2008, UAM)
Platform Committee




FUTURE:
 Manuel de León
 Luis Vega
 Diego Córdoba
 José Antonio Carrillo
 Wenceslao González
CONSULTING:
 Peregrina Quintela
 Alfredo Bermúdez
 Laureano Escudero
 Aureli Alabert
 Julio Rubio
COMPUTING:
 Ignacio Luengo
 Àngel Jorba
 Bosco García-Archilla
 Ana Mª Mancho
 Andrés Gómez Tato
EDU:
 Francisco Santos
 Luis Rico
 Sebastià Xambó




MIGS:
 Consuelo Martínez
 Emilio Carrizosa
 Joaquín Pérez
 Inmaculada Higueras
PMII:
 Joaquim Bruna
 Gabriel Navarro
 Rosa Donat
 Pablo Pedregal
SARE:
 María Jesús Carro
 Jesús Bastero
 Miguel Sánchez Caja
SAIRT:
 Antonio Durán
 Juan Carlos Marrero
 Amadeu Delshams
18 meetings from July 2006:
Madrid (UAM): July 2006
Castro Urdiales (CIEM): August 2006
Madrid (UCM): September 2006
Oviedo – Barcelona: November 2006
Castro Urdiales (CIEM): January 2007
Bilbao (EHU): March 2007
Castro Urdiales (CIEM): August 2007.
Madrid (CSIC) – Barcelona: November 2007 and january 2008
Castro Urdiales (CIEM): July 2008
Alicante (UA): September 2008
Barcelona (UPC): December 2008
Santiago de Compostela (USC): February 2009
Madrid (CSIC): June 2009
Madrid (CSIC): November 2009
Sevilla (US): January 2010
Valencia (UPV): June 2010
Madrid (UCM): October 2010
Madrid (CSIC): November 2010
Operation
Operation
Nodes Action Plan
Top-down Activities: 3 Calls
i-MATH Calls:
• 6 General Calls
• 1 Extraordinary Call
• 1 call of ‘Contratos flechados’: 10
• 2 calls for FUTURE i-MATH contracts: 3
Activities
Activities
FUTURE
CONSULTING
1st
Call
4
3
2nd
Call
12
8
3rd
Call
24
10
Top-Down
3rd Call
0
0
4th
Call
13
21
Top-Down
4th Call
4
6
5th
Call
7
10
Top-Down
5th Call
4
1
6th
Call
10
7
Top-Down
Total
6th Call
82
4
70
4
48
0
38
0
30
0
51
2
COMPUTING
EDU
PMII
MIGS
10
5
2
6
1
2
4
4
10
8
7
6
0
0
0
1
10
7
8
7
5
0
0
3
5
8
4
12
1
0
1
0
6
8
4
10
SARE
SAIRT
Out of
platform
11
0
20
0
27
6
0
0
20
3
1
0
21
2
0
0
34
4
10
2
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
2
0
144
17
4
Activities
120
100
80
60
40
20
Other actions
InterConsoliders
DocCourses
Advanced
Courses
Thematics
Periods
PMII
Meetings
Seminaries
Workshops
Courses/Schools
0
Forums/Jornadas
74
47
59
63
42
21
25
14
20
4
2
100
471
Conferences
Conferences
Forums/Jornadas
Courses/Schools
Workshops
Seminaries
Meetings
PMII
Thematics Periods
Advanced Courses
DocCourses
InterConsoliders
Other actions
Total
Activities
1st Call
FUTURE
CONSULTING
COMPUTING
EDU
PMII
MIGS
SARE
SAIRT
Out of
Platform
2nd Call
21.600,00 €
83.305,28 €
136.965,29
18.000,00
200.000,00
54.300,00
€
€
€
€
3rd Call
175.915,00 €
45.150,00 €
169.582,00 €
145.490,04 €
12.000,00
23.050,00
246.000,00
120.240,00
73.572,65
35.261,00
242.800,00
30.942,00
€
€
€
€
€
€
€
€
Top-Down 3rd
Call
0,00 €
0,00 €
0,00
0,00
0,00
0,00
€
€
€
€
34.600,00 €
0,00 €
108.586,00 €
0,00 €
126.682,61 €
42.600,00 €
0,00 €
0,00 €
0,00 €
0,00 €
0,00 €
28.464,00 €
Activities
FUTURE
239.200,00 €
Top-Down
4th Call
16.000,00 €
CONSULTING
153.234,39 €
231.941,54 €
68.919,70 €
26.200,00 €
78.928,70 €
37.600,00 €
46.287,25 €
0,00 €
4th Call
COMPUTING
EDU
PMII
MIGS
SARE
SAIRT
Fuera de
plataforma
54.120,00
407.002,00
83.025,00
133.520,00
20.000,00
€
€
€
€
€
45.500,00 €
0,00
0,00
167.000,00
9.000,00
0,00
€
€
€
€
€
93.000,00 €
94.695,00 €
Top-down
5th Call
57.252,00 €
5th Call
78.400,00
228.668,00
73.753,00
136.085,00
9.000,00
€
€
€
€
€
0,00 €
0,00
50.000,00
0,00
0,00
0,00
Top-Down
6th Call
37.260,00 €
865.454,00 €
36.419,16 € 177.396,06 €
968.056,17 €
55.374,00 €
440.727,89 €
6th Call
53.950,00 €
€ 66.820,00 €
€ 107.672,00 €
€ 85.200,00 €
€ 199.850,00 €
€ 29.400,00 €
106.705,00 €
28.953,00 €
0,00 €
0,00
0,00
2.150,00
63.500,00
0,00
€
€
€
€
€
0,00 €
Total
275.651,00
1.482.142,00
616.610,00
811.823,61
101.000,00
€
€
€
€
€
302.622,00 €
5.864.086,67 €
Activities
Concession by Platforms
900.000 €
1st Call
800.000 €
2nd Call
700.000 €
3rd Call
Top-Dow n 3rd Call
600.000 €
4th Call
500.000 €
Top-Dow n 4th Call
400.000 €
5th Call
300.000 €
Top-dow n 5th Call
200.000 €
6th Call
Top-Dow n 6th Call
100.000 €
Total
Platforms
Out of Platform
SAIRT
SARE
MIGS
PMII
EDU
COMPUTING
CONSULTING
FUTURE
0€
Administrative Expenses
Salaries of administratives
(UC+UAM+UA)
Map of de Interrelations
Contratos flechados
Contratos FUTURE
Contratos FUTURE2
Total
440.475,98
60.907,13
137.740,45
177.000,48
193.321,57
1.009.445,61
500.000
450.000
400.000
350.000
300.000
250.000
200.000
150.000
100.000
50.000
0
Salaries of
administratives
(UC+UAM+UA)
Map of de
Interrelations
Contratos
flechados
Contratos
FUTURE
Contratos
FUTURE2
Node
Activities
168.070,57 €
57.150,00 €
Top-down 3ª
Call
98.080,07 €
0,00 €
38.700,00 €
39.000,00 €
22.800,00 €
28.464,00 €
75.300,00 €
200.000,00 €
216.875,00 €
228.200,00 €
0,00 €
304.647,00 €
ICMAT
26.200,00 €
185.615,00 €
207.432,00 €
0,00 €
237.000,00 €
IMUB
34.600,00 €
49.000,00 €
6.000,00 €
0,00 €
37.000,00 €
Out of Nodes
81.200,00 €
183.301,00 €
304.418,23 €
0,00 €
393.320,00 €
Nodes
CESGA
CIEM
CRM
Nodes
CESGA
CIEM
CRM
ICMAT
IMUB
Out of Nodes
1ª Call
Top-down 4ª
Call
247.541,54
61.000,00
8.000,00
102.000,00
68.000,00
68.000,00
2ª Call
Top-down 5ª
Call
5ª Call
€
€
€
€
€
€
84.506,95
59.000,00
210.256,00
63.000,00
9.000,00
310.045,00
3ª Call
€
€
€
€
€
€
26.200,00
0,00
0,00
163.957,00
0,00
50.000,00
89.393,36
94.750,00
101.350,00
47.520,00
33.700,00
309.825,00
167.263,09 €
Top-down 6ª
Total
Call
6ª Call
€
€
€
€
€
€
4ª Call
€
€
€
€
€
€
177.395,86
3.100,00
22.970,00
11.850,00
0,00
52.090,00
€
€
€
€
€
€
1.115.601,44
422.114,00
1.292.298,00
1.044.574,00
237.300,00
1.752.199,23
5.864.086,67
€
€
€
€
€
€
€
Node
Activities
2.000.000 €
1.800.000 €
1.600.000 €
1ª Call
2ª Call
1.400.000 €
3ª Call
Top-dow n 3ª Call
1.200.000 €
4ª Call
1.000.000 €
Top-dow n 4ª Call
5ª Call
800.000 €
Top-dow n 5ª Call
6ª Call
600.000 €
Top-dow n 6ª Call
Total
400.000 €
200.000 €
0€
CESGA
CIEM
CRM
ICMAT
Nodes
IMUB
Out of
Nodes
Parameters
Parameters and
indicators
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Map of the situation of the scientific publications:
 Increase of the publications
 Improve of the quality of the publications
Annual increase of proposal, projects and networks
proved in competitive calls of the European Union.
Definition and start of a Mathematical Doctoral
School
Annual increase of the number of PhD students
Organise annually at least 15 meetings, workshops,
forums, etc.
Organise annually at least 4 thematic semesters.
Organise annually at least 2 intensive courses to
young researchers.
Create and start a Press office and increase the
number of papers geered toward the general public.
Design and annual updating of a map of
interrelations.
1 manager specializing in technology transfer
1 support manager specializing in computer
 Achieved
 Achieved
 Poor results
 Failed attempt
 Achieved : Contratos flechados,
Contratos FUTRUE
 Achieved:SARE
 Achieved: PMII
 Achieved: DocCourses, Exploratory
Workshops, etc
 Achieved: Divulga
 Achieved: CONSULTING MAP:
TransMath Offer and Demand.
 Achieved: CESGA
 Achieved: CESGA
Papers from i-MATH
Nº papers
Papers in journals of Q1
Papers in journals of Q2
Papers in journals of Q3
Papers in journals of Q4
*Data until june 20011
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011* Variación 2006-2010
43
89 122 171 213
131
395%
21
42
55
92
81
51
286%
10
20
24
36
58
30
480%
6
13
14
7
17
11
183%
3
5
1
7
7
3
133%
250
Nº papers
200
Papers in journals
of Q1
Papers in journals
of Q2
150
Papers in journals
of Q3
100
Papers in journals
of Q4
50
0
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011*
Spanish papers
14.000
12.000
# of Papers
10.000
Times Cited
8.000
6.000
4.000
2.000
0
20002004
20012005
20022006
20032007
20042008
20052009
20062010
Published papers
14.000
12.000
FRANCE
GERMANY
10.000
ENGLAND
ITALY
8.000
SPAIN
POLAND
6.000
BELGIUM
NETHERLANDS
4.000
CZECH REPUBLIC
SWEDEN
2.000
0
2000-2004
2001-2005
2002-2006
2003-2007
2004-2008
5-years intervals
2005-2009
2006-2010
Visibility of the Programme
Platform
Foreign
audience
Audience
% Foreign audience
Arithmetic Geometry(PMII-C4-0248)
CRM
114
120
95,00%
Foliations(PMII-C4-0251)
PMII
44
52
84,62%
Research Programme in Variational Analysis and
Optimization: Theory and Applications (PMIIC5-0333)
PMII
36
55
65,45%
IV Modelling Week del Master en Ingeniería
Matemática de la UCM(CONS-C5-0280)
CONSULTING
21
43
48,84%
New directions in the mathematical analysis of
fluids( PMII-C4-0279)
PMII
45
55
81,82%
Taller de Trasferencia Matemática (CONS-C40226)
CESGA
45
25
55,55%
58
35
60,34%
Activity
Compositional
Data
Analysis
(CoDaWork08) (C3-0153)
Workshop
Ecuaciones en derivadas parciales no lineales
(C3-0100)
ICMAT
84
58
69,04%
Foro de interacción 'Matemáticas e Industria
Biomédica‘ (CONS-C2-0064)
CESGA
72
33
45,83%
Summer School on Mathematical Modelling and
Numerical Simulation of the Cardiovascular
System(CONS-C4-0231)
CONSULTING
11
34
32,35%
Further Information
http://www.i-math.org:
Documentation.
Researchers.
News
Calls
Communication bureau
Activities
E-mail:
i-math@unican.es
Indicators
•Patents / prototypes
•Thesis
•Diffusion / media presence of the Consolider projects
•Great discoveries: 2 solved conjectures:
•Conjetura de Hirsch (Francisco Santos, CIEM)
•Conjetura de Nash (Javier Fernández de Bobadilla,
ICMAT y María Pe Pereira)
•Transfer: data collection of number of spin-offs and emerged
industrial projects
•Creating platforms of difussion: Nodes
•International difussion