AIMS

CIRM's local, national and international missions:

• to share the latest discoveries in mathematical sciences
• to progress on core questions in this discipline
• to prepare ambitious projects in collaboration with other sciences
• to ensure transfer of knowledge towards young researchers and doctoral students.

CIRM's core activitity: organizing events of various types

CIRM programmes

• Jean-Morlet Chair

Lasting a whole semester and held by a foreign researcher working in collaboration with a local project leader, with the organization of 5 or 6 events of various types and duration.

• Conferences & Research Schools

Lasting 5 days with an average of 60 to 90 participants. The calendar is planned two years in advance. 

• Multiyear programmes

Mathematics & Mathematics in interaction with other disciplines. This is the ticket for regular meetings.

• Workshops

Lasting 2 to 5 days, these are more specialized than larger events and attended by 20 to 40 participants on average.

• Research in Pairs
  

Two to four people meet for a week or fortnight in order to finish a paper, a book chapter or to set up a new collaboration.

Joint programmes with other entities

•  CEMRACS

A 6-week CIRM-SMAI advanced summer research school with an industrial stance

• The Thematic Month

A 4- or 5-week winter session on a special theme chosen by the departments of Aix-Marseille University (mathematics, computer sciences, theoretical physics)

• IRiGs (International Research in Groups)

​IRiGs are meant to combine a stay at CIRM (1 to 2 weeks) with a stay in another centre in Europe such as the ICMS Edinburgh, CRM Barcelona, Banach Centre Bedlewo and IHP Paris.

• CARMIN-IHP preparatory schools

One-week research schools organized as prequels to a trimester at Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP).

• SMF-CIRM weeks

One-week research schools targeted towards young researchers and partly funded by the French Mathematical Society (SMF)

• INTERFACE: a programme with and for industry

Organized with Insmi/CNRS, some learned societies (SFDS, SIF, SMAI, SMF) and with Labex Amies, Archimède and CARMIN, this programme aims to create a link between academics and engineers as well as other professionals during short residential sessions.

Governance 

CIRM has a Director, who is the only full-time academic employed permanently onsite.

CIRM has an Administrative Council.

The International Scientific Committee is in charge of  steering the scientific policy of the unit and deciding on its calendar of activities.

The INTERFACE programme also has its own Steering and Strategic Committee , gathering members from academia and from industry.