Our vision is an ICM within a green city of 1 million, but which feels like the coming-together of a scientific global village, over an area spanning little more than a square mile.
A place and climate optimised for mathematical serendipity, where at every street corner, someone wearing the iconic ICM tartan lanyard may come into sight. A new connection, a new interaction, a new collaboration, a new theorem?
A congress where time spent with colleagues does not end within the confines of its venue but naturally extends to the streets and establishments of its host city within a 2km circle.
Whether it is an after-hours discussion over a glass at an open-air dockyard pub under the long Glasgow evening sun, a joint morning stroll across one of the large parks, a group visit to a museum to see Lord Kelvin’s instruments, or enjoying one of the many concerts that Glasgow’s vibrant cultural scene has to offer; nothing will seem too far, and everything will be geared towards maximising interaction between participants.
A week in Scotland that connects us and that we, the mathematical community, will remember: “Here is the place where I got to know collaborator X, there I met Y again.” A humanscale ICM made for people because it recognises that People Make Mathematics.
