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The Rényi Institute's Christmas party was a great success. András Stipsicz opened the program with a brief review of the past year. Among other things, the institute's director spoke about the changes that will take place in Hungarian academic life in 2025.

NeurIPS is the world's leading scientific conference on machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is a huge success that the AI group of the Rényi Institute was also included in the Spotlight program, one of the featured categories of the event held in San Diego. Christ Miranda Anna, Csiszárik Adrián, Becsó Gergely, and Varga Dániel presented their results last week to Meta, Google, other leading IT companies, and the scientific elite in the field, according to an article in HVG.

"With this algorithm, we will be able to see something that no one has ever seen before" – Hungarian success in an international quantum competition – this was the title of an article in Telex about András Gilyén and his team reaching the final seven in the XPRIZE Quantum Applications competition.

The finalists of the XPRIZE Quantum Applications competition have been announced, and András Gilyén, a mathematician specializing in quantum computing at the HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute for Mathematical Research, is among the seven best research teams.

The research group of the Rényi Institute, Anna Christ Miranda, Adrián Csiszárik, Gergely Becsó and Dániel Varga, was invited to the world's most prestigious artificial intelligence conference. During their research, they discovered that language models do not store isolated facts, but capture the relationships of the world along interconnected conceptual patterns - their paper on this was presented a few hours ago.

How did the Rényi Institute, originally established for applied mathematics, become a world-renowned research center employing theoretical mathematicians? What work did renowned mathematicians of the past — Alfréd Rényi, Pál Erdős, András Hajnal, and others — do to make research of such high quality possible here? Research professor Péter Pál Pálfy, former director of the institute, was a guest on Trend FM and Radiocafé, with a conversation revolving around the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Rényi Institute.

Maryna Viazovska, a Ukrainian mathematician who became world-famous for solving the 8- and 24-dimensional sphere packing problem, received the Fejes Tóth László Medal yesterday. The Rényi Mathematical Research Institute intends to recognize an internationally significant mathematical work in the field of geometry with this award every year.

The list of winners of the National Research Excellence Program applications announced by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) has been published. Researchers from the Rényi Institute received funding in four sub-programs.

The posthumous award was received by the son of Richárd Wiegandt yesterday at the opening ceremony of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Jubilee Science Celebration 2025 program series.

A compilation was made on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Rényi Institute in the program Felfedező — a tudomány világál. In the popular science magazine of Kossuth Radio, Péter Pálfy talked about the history of the institute, the world-famous Hungarian mathematics, and András Stipsicz talked about the significance of mathematics and Rényi's achievements.