TODAY! Join ICM 2018 for 3 Facebook live interviews

August 9, 2018, 8:48 am

On the final day of the International Mathematics Congress, August 9, the ICM 2018 Facebook page will host three special live interviews, recorded in the ICM press room studio:

Join us online today to get to know:

• Marcelo Viana, Director General of IMPA (Brazilian Pure and Applied Mathematics Association)
• Constantinos Daskalakis, 2018 Nevanlinna Medal winner
• Étienne Ghys, Honorary IMPA researcher and first winner of the Clay Award for Dissemination of Mathematical Knowledge

Read more:

• ICM award winners reminisce about finding joy in math
• Claudio Landim presents metastability research
• Researchers from Germany, India, Iran and Italy win Fields Medal

At 9 am, the director general of IMPA, Marcelo Viana, will look back on ICM 2018.

Marcelo Viana

From 11 am, the guest will be Constantinos Daskalakis, winner of the 2018 Nevanlinna Medal.

Constantinos Daskalakis

Then at noon, we’ll be talking to Étienne Ghys, Honorary IMPA researcher and first winner of the Clay Award for Dissemination of Mathematical Knowledge

Étienne Ghys

In ICM 2018 official Facebook live interviews, the local organizing committee shows the vast diversity of perspectives within ICM 2018, the first time the international math meet-up has been hosted in the southern hemisphere. Since last Saturday (4), the following interviews were aired on the ICM Facebook page:

Rogério Martins (Portugal)

 

Júlia Jaccoud, the Matemaníaca (Brazil)

 

Marie-Françoise Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso)

 

Nalini Joshi (Burma / Australia)

 

Alicia Dickenstein (Argentina)

 

Tatiana Roque (Brazil)