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The program begins at 9 a.m. on September 29 in the Grand Hall of the Rényi Institute.

Hungarian combinatorics is strong and internationally renowned, which is why a record number of researchers came to Budapest for the Eurocomb'25 conference at the end of August. This provided the opportunity for a radio interview — on Trend FM and Radiocafé — with Balázs Patkós, a researcher at the Rényi Institute.

On September 26, at the Researchers' Night, our researchers will be presenting three lectures. The titles are: "Life-course analysis with artificial intelligence", "Stable marriages and admissions scores", and "Proving Pál Erdős' conjecture by bringing together different scientific fields".

András Némethi is one of the world's leading scientists in singularity theory. He was born and educated in Transylvania, worked in America for a decade and a half, and joined the Rényi Institute in 2004. It is thanks to him that algebraic geometry became known in Hungary - he also spoke about this work in the program broadcast on Trend FM and Radiocafé.

The goal of the program is for researchers to introduce discovery teaching methods to teachers and work together to ensure that mathematics teachers apply them in their teaching.

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the list of winners of this year's Starting Grants. András Gilyén is the 13th researcher to win an ERC grant from the Rényi Institute.

In 1993, University Eötvös Loránd (ELTE, Budapest) awarded an honorary doctoral degree to the eighty-year-old world-famous mathematician, Paul Erdős, and asked him to give a talk on “The Actual Problems of Mathematics” for a general audience (that is, not just for mathematicians) in the university’s largest auditorium, completely filled with about 500 people.

This year, mathematician László Lovász will receive the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy of Sciences, which he will receive at the institution's annual conference on October 16. An interview with László Lovász, research professor at the Rényi Institute, was conducted on the occasion of the award.

The European Combinatorics Prizes were awarded at the Eurocomb’25 conference. This year, three prizes were awarded, and the 2024 Euler Medal was also awarded during the ceremonial session.

Tudás.hu conducted an interview about the mathematical method used by the MIT Blackjack Team - a secret society of university students - to win huge sums of money in casinos in the 80s and 90s. Endre Csóka, senior research fellow at the Rényi Institute, talks about the card counting technique, why this method is no longer feasible today, and game theory is also discussed in the conversation.