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This week at CRM
9–13 November 2026
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Mon, Tue, Thu9–12
Alberti representations, the WALA conjecture and applications
Andrea Merlo · Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU)
Six lectures over two weeks, the first three this week. The minicourse is part of the Intensive Research Programme on Analysis of Free Boundary Problems.
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Tue, Thu10, 12
Formalizing Mathematics in Lean with AI
Michail Karatarakis · Radboud University Nijmegen & Axiomatic AI
In Barcelona · Room iC (ground floor), Facultat de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona
An introduction to Lean and Mathlib, and to the AI tools that now write much of the code, with time to work on a theorem of your own. Four two-hour sessions, the first two this week.
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Friday13
The Denjoy–Wolff Theorem in simply connected domains
Anna Miriam Benini · University of Parma
In Barcelona · Room iC (ground floor), Facultat de Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de Barcelona
The first of three lectures, on the simply connected domains where the Denjoy–Wolff Theorem holds and a geometric characterisation of them through the behaviour of horospheres near the boundary. The next two follow on 23 and 27 November.
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Friday13
Traveling salesman metrics and embeddings into Banach spaces
Emanuele Caputo · University of Trento
The first of the weekly seminars that follow the two intensive weeks of the IRP. Caputo proves that the planar lamplighter metric admits no bi-Lipschitz embedding into L1, and its square root none into Hilbert space.
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Latest issue of the CRM magazine · Nº49 · October 2026
All Facing the Same Way
Guillaume Chapuy (Université Paris Cité, CNRS) and Guillem Perarnau (UPC, CRM) prove that almost every random automaton can be reset by a word, and pin down the order of its length.
Also in this issue
- The mathematics of Gaudí, a special section
- Near the jackpot, the brain moves its yardstick
- A Directors’ Gallery for the new academic year
- The sum π gatecrashed
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Latest video · 27 October 2026
From the local to the global in biology: James Sharpe and Chiara Villa
James Sharpe (EMBL Barcelona) and Chiara Villa (CNRS, Université Paris Cité) talk about mathematical models of living systems, from cells that only sense their neighbours to hormones that travel through the whole body. Recorded at the Barcelona Workshop on Kinetic and Macroscopic Models in Biology with Friends II, in September 2026.
11:33From the local to the global in biology: James Sharpe and Chiara Villa
12:10Curves, abelian varieties and who gets to do mathematics | CAVARET 2
9:24Anna Florio: the mathematics of billiards
8:46NeuroMunt: bifurcacions, sèries temporals i decisions a la muntanya
6:18The topology of the backrooms
22:34Xavier Cabré: “I changed my mind, and I have never regretted it”
















