10th International Mathematics and Informatics Conference on

Distance and critical points


September 8-12, 2025

Târgu Mureş/Marosvásárhely, Romania

Tentative opening day of registration is 6th of January

Motto:
I created a new, different
world out of nothing.
(János Bolyai)

The aim of the conference is to connect researchers from different countries and different fields of Mathematics and Informatics in a pleasant place of a young and growing university. The topics of the conference include all fields of Mathematics and Informatics.

This conference is organized every two years in the same place, the city where the famous Hungarian mathematician János Bolyai has spent most of his life.

Papers presented at the conference can be submitted for publication in our journal Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Mathematica or Acta Universitatis Sapientiae Informatica.

The topics of this years conference is related to optimizing any kind of distance on algebraic varieties, manifolds, polytopes, etc. Topics will include, but will not be restricted to, the study of algebraic and topological properties of the singularities of the related distance functions, the study of their discriminants, etc.

Besides the invited plenary talks, the registered participants will have the possibility to submit contributed talks, additionally Ph.D. students will have the possibility to submit posters. There will be free accommodation for several Ph.D. students based on a preselection. On Wednesday there will be an excursion organized to visit the town of Sighișoara, which is a popular tourist destination for its well-preserved old town, being listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. In that evening there will be a festive dinner, including a wine tasting at the nearby Castel Haller.

General Info

When: September 8-12, 2025
Organized by: Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
Department of Mathematics and Informatics
http://www.ms.sapientia.ro
Contact: mathinfo ms.sapientia.ro



Conference Sponsors

Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania

Project “Singularities and Applications” - CF 132/31.07.2023 funded by the European Union - NextGenerationEU - through Romania’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan

Invited Speakers

 

Mathematics

Bernd Sturmfels (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany)

Sandra DiRocco (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)

Jan Draisma (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Antonio Lerario (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)

Mihai Tibăr (University of Lille, France)

Laurențiu Maxim (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Simon Telen (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany).

 

Informatics

Zoltán Gál (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Mihai Oltean, Independent researcher, Cugir, Romania

András Pataricza (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary)

László Szilágyi (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Targu Mures, Romania)

Scientific Committee


Margit Antal (Sapientia Hungarian Univ. of Transylvania)  Attila Kiss (Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest)
Lehel Csató (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)  Pál Kupán (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)
Tibor Csendes (University of Szeged, Hungary) Zoltán Makó (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)
László Dávid (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania) Hanspeter Mössenböck (Johannes Kepler Univ., Linz, Austria)
Csaba Farkas (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania) Marian Mureșan (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Emil Horobeț (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania) Adrian Petrușel (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Sándor Horváth (George Emil Palade Univ. of MPST. Tg. Mureș) Horia F. Pop (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Zoltán Horváth (Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest) Róbert Szász (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)
David Iclanzan (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania) Ferenc Szenkovits (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Zoltán Kása (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania) Daniela Zaharie (West University of Timișoara, Romania)
Zoltán Kátai (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)

Organizing Committee


Margit AntalPál Kupán
Szabolcs CsaholcziIbolya Lukács
Csaba FarkasGyöngyvér Márton
Ágnes GyőrfiMirtill-Boglárka Naghi
Emil HorobețTímea Zsuzsanna Nagy
David IclanzanBoróka Oltean-Péter
Katalin-Tünde Jánosi-RanczErika Osztián
Zoltán KátaiPálma-Rozália Osztián
Zoltán KásaRóbert Szász
Lehel Kovács