As of 22 October, Academician András Stipsicz, Director General of Rényi Institute since 2019, took up his new role as President of HUN-REN. His responsibilities at Rényi will be assumed by Deputy Director General Dezső Miklós, supported by Károly Böröczky, Director of the Erdős Center
Incoming HUN-REN President and Rényi's Director General András Stipsicz on a research system that rewards excellence, gives researchers a predictable future and encourages collaboration across disciplines
JATE Award was established in 2023 by Katalin Karikó, who donated the full monetary component of her Nobel Prize, in collaboration with the University of Szeged
Academician Gábor Domokos, an architect and engineer with an unconventional approach, gave a lecture on natural tilings. His lecture will also be available in Hungarian at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) on November 3rd, as part of the Hungarian Science Festival.
Dániel Varga, a senior researcher at RÉNYI AI, is less optimistic about whether mathematicians will weather this dramatic transformation well. Together with Ákos Dúcz, he answered one of Paul Erdős’s questions using AI only as an auxiliary tool.
The recipients of this year’s Bolyai János Research Scholarship, including researchers affiliated with Rényi Institute, received their certificates at a ceremony held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The unchecked expansion of AI and humanity’s vulnerability to manipulation were at the centre of the latest episode of the Friderikusz Podcast, featuring Balázs Szegedy, research professor at Rényi Institute.