10th International Mathematics and Informatics Conference

Distance and critical points


September 8-12, 2025

Târgu Mureş/Marosvásárhely, Romania

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

Zoltán Balogh (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Károly Böröczky (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest)

Sandra DiRocco (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)

Jan Draisma (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Antonio Lerario (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)

Laurențiu Maxim (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

Matteo Muratori (Department of Mathematics of Politecnico di Milano university (Milan, Italy))

Paolo Salani (UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica (DIMAI) )

Bernd Sturmfels (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany)

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

Mihai Tibăr (University of Lille, France)

 

Informatics

Zoltán Gál (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Buza Krisztián (Budapest University of Economics and Business, Budapest, 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)  Zoltán Kátai (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)
László Dávid (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania) Alexandru Kristály (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
József Domokos (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania) Pál Kupán (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)
Csaba Farkas (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania) Zoltán Makó (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)
Emil Horobeț (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania) Andrei Mărcuș (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
David Iclanzan (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania) Adrian Petrușel (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)
Cezar Joiță (Institutul de Matematică „Simion Stoilow” al Academiei Române (I.M.A.R.)) Róbert Szász (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)
Zoltán Kása (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania)

Organizing Committee


Chair of the Commitee: Csaba Farkas, Emil Horobeț
Vice chair: David Iclanzan
Secretary: Ibolya Lukács
Technical support: Ágnes Györfi

Margit AntalGyöngyvér Márton
Szabolcs CsaholcziMirtill-Boglárka Naghi
Katalin-Tünde Jánosi-RanczTímea Zsuzsanna Nagy
Zoltán KátaiPálma-Rozália Novák
Zoltán KásaErika Osztián
Lehel KovácsRóbert Szász
Pál Kupán

Accommodation


We would like to offer FREE ACCOMMODATION for several Ph.D. student in our student dormitory, on an application base. To apply please send your CV, publication list and a letter of recommendation from your supervisor to the following e-mail address: mathinfo ms.sapientia.ro. Deadline for this is 31st of May! Extended deadline 13th of July. Soon after the deadline closes we will let you know of the results.

Note that the available rooms have three beds each, so if you have a colleague you are fine to share your room with, then please also let us know of this in your e-mail, sharing the persons name. In the case of two or more students willing to share their room, their application is almost surely accepted!

Other participants can also opt for our student housing, where the price is 135 RON/room/day. Let us know about this till the 31st of May. Extended deadline 13th of July.

More accommodation possibilities are:

Vila Cheșa guesthouse *** close to the Campus https://vilachesa.ro/en/
Sandoria Hotel *** close to the Campus https://hotelsandoria.ro/en/
Business Hotel *** close to the Campus https://v.hotel-business.ro/

Travel


To Cluj-Napoca (we will organize shuttle transport to the conference venue)

  • By plane: from Bucharest (1 hour) or from more than 40 destinations

To Târgu-Mureș

  • By plane: from Budapest (WizzAir every second day, 1 hour)
  • By train: from Budapest via Oradea (12 hours), from Bucharest (7 hours)
  • By car: from Budapest via Oradea (560 km; 7 hours), from Bucharest via Brașov (350 km, 5 hours)

Registration


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The registration fee is 500 RON (or 100 EUR equivalently), for every participant, with the exception of the invited speakers.
This amount covers three meals per day during the conference for the participant.
To be paid at the Conference Registration Desk, or by international bank transfer to:
Universitatea Sapientia P.L Corunca Adr. Corunca 1/C
CF: 14645945 Banca OTP Tg.Mures
IBAN: RO42BTRLRONCRT0039221821 (RON)
IBAN: RO03BTRLEURCRT0039221817 (EUR)
Swift: BTRLRO22
https://payments.sapientia.ro/en/BFRXB4 (only in RON)

Abstract upload

For those participants who whish to contribute with a talk the abstract submission is open now and ends on the 31st of July 2025.
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Participants

Margit Antal (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania)
Farhad Babaee (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
Zoltan Balogh (University of Bern, Switzerland )
Károly Böröczky (Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary)
Andi Brojbeanu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Krisztian Buza (Budapest University of Economics and Business, Hungary) Twenty Years of Time Series Classification: From Nearest Neighbors to ROCKETs and Beyond
Carles Checa (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) an effective criterion for multiple positive solutions of vertically parametrized polynomial systems
Erin Connelly (Univeristy of Osnabrück, Germany)
Szabolcs Csaholczi (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania) Optimized U-Net Architecture with Residual and Attention Blocks for Multi-Class Tumor Segmentation
Maria Csernoch (University of Debrecen, Hungary) Problem-Solving Strategies and Wastes in Digital Text Management
Clara Dérand (University of Lorraine, France)
Dániel Derzsi (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, România)
Jan Draisma (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Rob Eggermont (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Csaba Farkas (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania)
Ádám Gulácsi (University of Debrecen, Hungary) Games and algorithms: a co-operative board game for teaching elementary algorithms
Ágnes Györfi (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania)
Lóránt Hadnagy (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania) Algorithmic Expression of Tensor Operations in Iversonian Languages
Emil Horobeț (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania)
Nidhi Kaihnsa (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Zoltán Kátai (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania) The Sapientia ECN AI Baseline Index: Comparing LLMs to Student Performance in Competitive Programming
Janosi-Rancz Katalin Tunde (Sapientia EMTE, Romania)
Nikhil Ken (University of Florence, Italy)
Bence Kovács (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania) Investigation and Application of Traveling Salesman Algorithms in Urban Route Planning
Khazhgali Kozhasov (Université Côte d'Azur, France)
Pál Kupán (EMTE Sapientia, Ro)
Ioana-Claudia Lazar (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)
Giacomo Maletto (KTH, Sweden)
Gyongyver Marton (EMTE Sapientia, Romania)
Laurentiu Maxim (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Linear optimization on varieties and Chern-Mather classes
Matteo Muratori (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Mirtill - Boglárka Naghi (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania, Romania)
Pálma Rozália Novák (Osztián) (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania)
Mihai Oltean (Independent Researcher, Romania) F-Roof: a single-layer multifunction roof
Erika Osztián (Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Romania)
Adam Parusinski (Université Côte d'Azur, France)
Laurentiu Paunescu (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Cornel Pintea (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Miklos Pinter (Corvinus, Hungary) Maximal complete algebras
Isaac Ren (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Morse theory of distance functions between algebraic varieties
Paolo Salani (University of Florence , Italy)
Fahad Sarwar (Government College University Lahore (GCUL), Pakistan)
Dirk Siersma (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Luca Sodomaco (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) Higher-order Osculating Eigenvectors of Symmetric Tensors
Bernd Sturmfels (MPI Leipzig, Germany) The Likelihood Correspondence
Svala Sverrisdottir (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
Laszlo Szabo (ELTE IK, Hungary)
László Szilágyi (Sapientia University, Romania)
Máté Telek (MPI MiS, Germany) Copositive geometry and positive A-discriminants
Simon Telen (MPI MiS, Germany) Euler stratifications of hypersurface families
Rodrigo Thomaz da Silva (Université de Lille, France)
Ioan-Adrian Tofan (Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai (UBB), Romania)

Connected Events


The week before the conference (September 1-5, 2025), there will be a Research School on Singularities and Applications to Optimization in Bucharest, designated for Ph.D. students where Emil Horobeț, Cezar Joiță, Khazhgali Kozhasov, Laurențiu Maxim, and Mihai Tibăr will give lectures on related topics. Here is the website for it: https://sites.google.com/view/singularitiesandapplications/accueil.