Erdős Center was established in 2021 in Budapest, Hungary by the Rényi Institute with the support of HUN-REN (formerly ELKH) in Budapest.
We aim to organize workshops, summer schools and conferences as well as to host visiting researchers within the framework of thematic semesters.
In addition, informal Focused Workshops addressing timely challenges in mathematics are organized in the Summer.
The Center is located in Reáltanoda utca, the historic center of Budapest, just accross the Rényi Institute. The centre started operating in the spring semester of 2022. More info about us...
The goal of the semester is to bring together prominent scientists of the field to discuss the frontline of research and to introduce the next generation of researchers to the wide range of ideas and methods of contemporary probability and mathematical statistical physics.
The primary theme of this special research semester is to explore recent advancements in the theory of complex manifolds, with a focus on both Kählerian and non-Kählerian cases.
The semester will focus on the intersections between modern harmonic analysis, number theory as well as arithmetic and geometric Ramsey theory, which are still evolving.
Several postdoc positions are available in Budapest in various research groups in Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory and Probability theory. To make the application process more efficient and joyful, we are organizing a drafting workshop for young researchers interested in these positions at the Rényi Institute.
Part of the thematic semester New Directions in Modern Harmonic Analysis and Applications January-June 2026) hosted by the Erdős center. Participation by invitation only.
The conference will bring together experts from various fields of low-dimensional topology, including exotic phenomena, contact and symplectic geometry, Heegaard Floer homology, gauge theory, and knots and knotted surfaces.
Based on the 4 lecture series of 4 lectures each, the Simons School will highlight the enumerative and birational geometry of the moduli spaces of curves, abelian varieties and K3 surfaces, presenting modern techniques of geometric, combinatorial and tropical nature that have led to decisive progress. Part of the thematic semester Algebraic Geometry (August-December 2026) hosted by the Erdős Center.
The Workshop will highlight the enumerative and birational geometry of the moduli spaces of curves, abelian varieties and K3 surfaces, presenting modern techniques of geometric, combinatorial and tropical nature that have led to decisive progress. Part of the thematic semester Algebraic Geometry (August-December 2026) hosted by the Erdős Center.
The 4 lecture series of the School will focus on modern techniques in the classification theory of higher dimensional algebraic varieties, highlighting connections to K-stability and singularity theory. Part of the thematic semester Algebraic Geometry (August-December 2026) hosted by the Erdős Center.
The Workshop will focus on modern techniques in the classification theory of higher dimensional algebraic varieties, highlighting connections to K-stability and singularity theory. Part of the thematic semester Algebraic Geometry (August-December 2026) hosted by the Erdős Center.
Recently, I participated in the Winter school in singularities and low-dimensional topology. This was the opening event of the Erdős Center semester Singularities and low-dimensional topology. The workshop was intended to form a link between low-dimensional topology and singularity theory in the minds of more than a hundred young researchers and PhD-students such as myself.
In the last two weeks of September we were welcome at the Rényi institute for a school and workshop on optimal transport on quantum structures. After a very nice school introducing some of the main ideas in this field, we got to start on the research talks.
Matthijs Vernooij
During my visit to the Hungary National museum, I learned that during the cold war Budapest was seen as a city where scholars came together, minds were sparked and conventions where challenged. Well, for at least two weeks in September history seemed to have repeated itself. Robert de Keijzer
The Erdős Center organised the Automorphic forms conference from 5 - 9 September, 2022. This 5 day conference included 21 invited talks and 15 contributed talks by leading researchers in the theory of automorphic forms from various universities across the world. Keshav Aggarwal
In the semester preceding the summer school, Gergely Harcos and Péter Maga gave an introductory course about automorphic forms at Eötvös Loránd University. This helped us to gain insight into automorphic forms, and for me, it opened a whole new area of mathematics. Csaba Anderlik
During the past few weeks, I participated in two summer schools at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, as part of the Erdős center semester on Large Networks and their Limits...
Vilas Winstein
