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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 at 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.

The conference on combinatorics is being held in Budapest for the second time, organized by the Rényi Institute. Participants from nearly 30 countries around the world are coming to this year's Eurocomb. The prestigious European Combinatorics Award will also be presented here.

The Rényi Institute has won funding from the European Union's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks consortium, which will enable the organization of important training courses in collaboration with other universities.

László Lovász received a prestigious award, the Erasmus Medal was awarded to the Abel Prize-winning research professor for his consistently outstanding international scientific work by the European Academy of Sciences.

The list of speakers for the conference in Philadelphia (USA) in July 2026 has just been announced. László Lovász, Research Professor at the Rényi Institute, has been invited by the organisers to deliver the Abel Lecture.

The leader of the Hungarian team, senior research fellow at the Rényi Institute, Viktor Harangi, gave an interview to the Trend Fm news program about the progress of the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the tasks, the preparation of the competitors, and the impact of the Olympiad on their future opportunities.