Trinity College Dublin August 26th - 28th
The 2026 annual meeting of the Irish Mathematical Society (Cumann Matamaitice na hÉireann) was hosted by the School of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin.
This was the 39th annual IMS meeting; a list of past meetings is available on the IMS website. In 2026 the IMS reached the 50th anniversary of its founding and to mark this milestone a public talk was organised in conjunction with the annual meeting.
As part of the meeting there was a public talk by Hugo Parlier on Wednesday, August 26th at 5:30pm . The talk took place in the Academy House of the Royal Irish
Academy, 19 Dawson Street.
Traces
How do shapes relate to one another? Where the artist intuitively grasps the balance between forms, mathematicians map out these relationships by incorporating notions of distance and transformation into what they call moduli spaces—vast structured landscapes of all possible geometric shapes.
Together with Bruno Teheux, in order to sample collective creativity, we imagined the project Life Lines and collected thousands of drawings from around the world. The game Quadratis, designed with Paul Turner, allows players to explore and visualize moduli spaces.
Both projects will be at the heart of a resolutely interactive talk.
On the afternoon of Thursday, August 27th there was a poster session. The event included a competition for early career participants, generously sponsored by the Susquehanna Intl. Group Ltd. MSc and PhD students as well as early stage postdocs (up to one year after graduation) were eligible.
The founding of the IMS can be to dated to a meeting in House 39 of TCD on April 14th 1976 where the original constitution was accepted. A recounting of the origins of the IMS by T.T. West was published in the IMS Bulletin. The secretary's report, by T.C. Hurley, of the first year's activities is also available from the IMS Bulletin here.
A printable version of the conference poster can be found below:
IMS 2026 is organised in partnership with the Clay Mathematics Institute and is generously supported by:
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