The Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA) is a research team hosted at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Aveiro. It was created in 2010 as a fusion between the research centers MA and CEOC, continuing the main goal of carrying out fundamental and applied research in several domains of Mathematics.

The CIDMA also aims to contribute for the scientific development of young researchers as well as for the preparation of new researchers through post-graduate and advanced education.

The CIDMA is one of the largest mathematical research centers in Portugal having over one hundred members and collaborators, and its scientific activities are organized in seven research groups:
- Algebra and Geometry Group
- Complex and Hypercomplex Analysis Group
- Functional Analysis and Applications Group
- History of Mathematics Group
- Mathematical Theory of Systems and Control Group
- Optimization, Graph Theory and Combinatorics Group
- Probability and Statistics Group

In order to achieve its goals, the CIDMA promotes activities such as: regular talks, courses and seminars; dissemination of the scientific production of its team through the participation in scientific meetings; international cooperation (by means of visits to foreign countries and invitation of foreign researchers); organization of workshops and congresses; post-graduate and advanced research. In order to increase its contribution to social and economic development, the CIDMA also strives for an active participation in multidisciplinary projects in cooperation with other research teams.

SOME NUMBERS OF THE 2012 YEAR:
2 Books were published;
189 papers were published (8 as book chapters, 111 in peer review international journals, 2 in national journals, 67 in proceedings of international conferences and 1 in proceedings of national conferences);
197 talks were presented by elements of the team in conferences, workshops or research seminars
57 seminars were organized;
47 Scientists from abroad visited CIDMA;
43 visits of members of CIDMA were made to international research centers or universities;
6 Ph.D. and 11 M.Sc. theses were completed.

SOME NUMBERS OF THE 2011 YEAR:
3 Books were published;
189 papers were published (7 as book chapters, 114 in peer review international journals, 6 in national journals, 61 in proceedings of international conferences and 1 in proceedings of national conferences);
215 talks were presented by elements of the team in conferences, workshops or research seminars
98 seminars were organized;
60 Scientists from abroad visited CIDMA;
34 visits of members of CIDMA were made to international research centers or universities;
6 Ph.D. and 14 M.Sc. theses were completed.

CIDMA Members Scientific Production included in the WEB OF SCIENCE in the five years 2007—2011.

CIDMA2013 -- A meeting of the Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications. This was the first of a series of yearly meetings of CIDMA, aimed to serve as a gathering point of all the members of this Center and where each of its groups selects a number of presentations regarding the research carried out during the past year.





EXTERNAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMISSION:

Hans G. Feichtinger (Institute of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria)
Brendan McCabe (University of Liverpool, UK)
Carsten W. Scherer (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Egon Schulte (Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Tamás Terlaky (Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA)
Wolfgang L. Wendland (University of Stuttgart, Germany)


The Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications is supported by FEDER funds through COMPETE – Operational Programme Factors of Competitiveness (Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade) and by national funds through Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia), within project «PEst-C/MAT/UI4106/2011», with COMPETE number «FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-022690».