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The Mathematical Congress of the Americas is Coming to the US in 2025

The Fourth Mathematical Congress of the Americas (MCA 2025) will be held in Miami, Florida, at the Intercontinental Hotel from July 21–25, 2025. It is being hosted by the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA) at the University of Miami. This marks the first time the MCA will be held in the United States.
The first MCA was hosted by the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT) in Guanajuato, Mexico, August 5–9, 2013, followed by the Montreal MCA, hosted by the Canadian Mathematical Society from July 24–27, 2017. The 2021 MCA was sponsored by the Department of Mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic it was held virtually from July 9–July 23.
The umbrella organization for the MCA is the Mathematical Council of the Americas, a network for professional mathematical societies and research institutes based in the Americas, dedicated to promoting the development of Mathematics, in all its aspects, throughout the continent. As a continental collaborative effort, special attention is given to cooperating with UMALCA—the Mathematical Union for Latin America and the Caribbean. The Mathematical Council aims to highlight the excellence of mathematical achievements in the Americas within the context of the international arena and to foster the scientific integration of all mathematical communities on the continent. The principal vehicle by which the Math Council advances its goals is through the now well-established quadrennial MCA.
The 2025 Miami MCA will feature a roster of distinguished plenary and invited speakers and 50–60 Special Sessions across a full range of mathematical areas and applications. A particular opportunity for MCA 2025 arises from the bourgeoning financial services and advanced knowledge industries in Miami. We expect to feature a Miami Tech evening dedicated to advancing mathematical entrepreneurship across the hemisphere. It also comes at a special moment for the University of Miami. The University will mark its centenary on April 8, 2025, and MCA 2025 will be one of the premier events celebrating its centennial year. Miami is a cultural crossroads and one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities; it glows with an entrepreneurial lean, a vibrant spirit, and an innovative approach to problem-solving that has sparked an unprecedented inflow of technology-rich companies. Here, at this confluence of cultures and synergetic interests, the University of Miami has been able to leverage strategic outreach to lead regional, national, and hemispheric change. Strengthening and strengthened by Miami’s expanding convergence of scientific and medical research, the University continues to extend and expand its reputation and the impacts of its work. To this end, in 2019, with generous crucial initial support from the Simons Foundation, the Department inaugurated IMSA—the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas at the University of Miami. This milestone followed fifteen years of ground-up collaboration among mathematical scientists from the Department of Mathematics at the University and colleagues throughout the Americas, including hosting the only US-based Satellite Conference for the 2018 Rio de Janeiro International Congress of Mathematicians. Hosting the first US-based MCA is an enormous source of pride for both IMSA and for the University as a whole, particularly in its centennial year of celebration.
The mission of IMSA is threefold: (1) To foster and facilitate research in mathematics and its applications across the Americas; (2) To disseminate advances from this research broadly and interactively to the global mathematical and scientific communities; and (3) To build national and international capacity in the mathematical science workforce by providing targeted educational opportunities at key points in human intellectual development, from middle school through postdoctoral training. Gathering over 1000 mathematicians in beautiful, diverse Miami for a week of scientific interchange is an ideal opportunity to advance all three aspects of IMSA’s mission.

As noted at the top of the article, the Intercontinental Hotel, Miami, will serve as the headquarters for MCA 2025. Located in the heart of booming downtown Miami, with commanding views of the Atlantic Ocean, Biscayne Bay, and the Port of Miami, the Intercontinental is the city’s premier locale for hosting events on the scale of MCA 2025. The Intercontinental is ideally appointed, with 653 guest rooms and over 100,000 square feet of meeting space spread over 35 meeting rooms, making it the ideal focal point for MCA 2025.
The Program Committee for the 2025 MCA is chaired by Bryna Kra of Northwestern University, the current President of the American Mathematical Society. Plenary speakers for MCA 2025 are Alexei Borodin (MIT), June Huh (IAS), Jorge Vitorio Pereira (IMPA), Melanie Matchett Wood (Harvard), and Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley).

Alexei Borodin is professor of mathematics at MIT. He studies problems at the interface of representation theory and probability that link to combinatorics, random matrix theory, and integrable systems. He was awarded the Prize of the Moscow Mathematical Society in 2003 and the Prize of the European Mathematical Society in 2008. In 2015, Borodin received both the Loeve Prize and the Henri Poincaré Prize at the triennial International Mathematical Physics Congress.

June Huh is professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He is a 2022 recipient of the Fields Medal. His research focuses on the geometry, topology, and combinatorics of algebraic varieties. The IMU Award Citation observes that “using methods of Hodge theory, tropical geometry and singularity theory, June Huh, with his collaborators, has transformed the field of geometric combinatorics.” Huh has received numerous other awards for his work, including being named a MacArthur Fellow in 2022.

Jorge Vitorio Pereira is professor of mathematics at Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA). His research interests are at the intersection of foliation theory and algebraic geometry. He was a 2020 Jean Morlet Chair at Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques CIRM and 2021/2022 Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

Melanie Matchett Wood is professor of mathematics at Harvard University. Her research interests are in number theory, particularly in understanding the distribution of number fields and their fundamental structures. She received the Association for Women in Mathematics-Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory, the Alan T Waterman Award from the NSF, and in 2022 was named a MacArthur Fellow.

Maciej Zworski is professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include microlocal analysis, scattering theory, and partial differential equations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of the Sierpiski Medal from the University of Warsaw and the Polish Mathematical Society.
The names of semi-plenary speakers along with brief biographical sketches are available on the MCA 2025 website https://www.math.miami.edu/mca/. The plenary and semi-plenary addresses by luminaries from across the Americas will be greatly enhanced by 50–60 Special Sessions across a full range of mathematical areas and applications. The window to submit a proposal to organize either a one-day or two-day session is now open until March 31, 2024. Proposals are welcome in any area of mathematics or its applications. The team submitting a proposal must include mathematical scientists from at least two countries of the Americas. Proposals are being approved on a rolling basis, so early submission is highly encouraged. For full instructions on submitting a proposal, please visit https://www.math.miami.edu/mca/.
The Mathematical Council of the Americas is enormously grateful to the American Mathematical Society for its very generous and continuous support of the Math Congress since its inception in 2013. The AMS has committed funding to seed a pool of funds to help mathematicians from Latin America and the Caribbean to attend and has also agreed to submit a proposal to the NSF to help with travel support for US-based mathematicians. In addition, the local organizing committee anticipates that other benefactors will be inspired by the AMS to offer significant support for participants of MCA 2025.
Details concerning applications for support will be posted on the MCA 2025 website https://www.math.miami.edu/mca/ and on the AMS website.
Credits
Figure 1 is courtesy of the Mathematical Council of the Americas and Art Wager via Getty.
Figure 2 is courtesy of InterContinental Miami.
Figure 3 is courtesy of the Simons Foundation/Radhika Chalasani.
Figure 4 is courtesy of International Mathematical Union; Photographer: Lance Murphy.
Figure 5 is courtesy of Jorge Vitorio Pereira.
Figure 6 is courtesy of Melanie Matchett Wood.
Figure 7 is courtesy of Maciej Zworski.
Photo of Robert Stephen Cantrell is courtesy of Robert Stephen Cantrell.
Photo of Susan Friedlander is courtesy of Susan Friedlander.