Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques

CIRM hosts weekly workshops on diverse topics where mathematicians and scientists from all over the world come to do collaborative research.

[1] In 1954, a report from the CNRS discussed potential sites for a meeting place to hold international seminars and workshops in mathematics similar to the Mathematisches Forschunginstitut Oberwolfach.

Each year, CIRM runs around 35 week-long workshops with an average of 75 weekly participants.

The chair was named after Jean Morlet, a French geophysicist who worked with Marseille-based researcher Alex Grossmann, among others, to develop the wavelet transform.

[6] Past chairs have included Nicola Kistler, Boris Hasselblatt, Igor Shparlinski, Hans Georg Feichtinger, Herwig Hauser, François Lalonde, Dipendra Prasad, Mariusz Lemańczyk, Konstantin Khanin, Shigeki Akiyama, and Genevieve Walsh.