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 and Mathematics in interaction with other disciplines

• Workshops

Lasting 2 to 5 days, 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 interface with industry

• 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)

• CARMIN-IHP preparatory schools

Research schools organized as prequels to a trimester at Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP).

• SMF-CIRM weeks

Targeted towards young researchers and partly funded by the French Mathematical Society (SMF)

• the "Interface" programme with and for industry

Organized with Insmi/CNRS, French learned societies (SFDS, SIF, SMAI, SMF) and with Labex Amies, Archimède and CARMIN, this programme will start in 2019 and aims to create a link between academics and engineers as well as other professionals during residential sessions held inhouse.

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.