The Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (IMT) is the Toulouse Mathematics Institute, a CNRS Research Laboratory which federates the mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

 community of the Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

 area in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. The IMT is constituted by three main teams (in 2008):

• Partial differential equations, numerical analysis
  Numerical analysis
  Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation for the problems of mathematical analysis ....
  
  , optimization
  Optimization (mathematics)
  In mathematics, computational science, or management science, mathematical optimization refers to the selection of a best element from some set of available alternatives....
  
   (formerly MIP)
• Pure mathematics
  Pure mathematics
  Broadly speaking, pure mathematics is mathematics which studies entirely abstract concepts. From the eighteenth century onwards, this was a recognized category of mathematical activity, sometimes characterized as speculative mathematics, and at variance with the trend towards meeting the needs of...
  
   (formerly Laboratoire Émile Picard)
• Statistics
  Statistics
  Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
  
   & Probability
  Probability
  Probability is ordinarily used to describe an attitude of mind towards some proposition of whose truth we arenot certain. The proposition of interest is usually of the form "Will a specific event occur?" The attitude of mind is of the form "How certain are we that the event will occur?" The...
  
   (formerly LSP)

The IMT is one of the largest French research centers in mathematics, and its scientific activities cover almost all domains of mathematics. It comprises approximately 180 permanent researchers

Researcher

A researcher is somebody who performs research, the search for knowledge or in general any systematic investigation to establish facts. Researchers can work in academic, industrial, government, or private institutions.-Examples of research institutions:...

 and 100 PhD students (in 2008), belonging to various institutions of the University of Toulouse

University of Toulouse

The Université de Toulouse is a consortium of French universities, grandes écoles and other institutions of higher education and research, named after one of the earliest universities established in Europe in 1229, and including the successor universities to that earlier university...

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The main buildings of the IMT are located on the Paul Sabatier University

Paul Sabatier University

Paul Sabatier University is a French university, in the Academy of Toulouse.Founded in 1229, the University of Toulouse is one of the oldest in Europe. Today’s Toulouse III was named for Paul Sabatier, winner of the 1912 Nobel prize in chemistry, when it was established on the foundations of the...

 campus.

The IMT is responsible of the Fermat Prize

Fermat Prize

The Fermat prize of mathematical research rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive:* Statements of variational principles* Foundations of probability and analytic geometry* Number theory....

 and the Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse

Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse

The Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse is aninternational peer reviewed scientific journal, in the domain of mathematics research. Its ISSN is 0240-2963....

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External links

• Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
• Geographic location with Wikimapia
• IMT scientific production on HAL
  Hyper Articles en Ligne
  Hyper Articles en Ligne, generally shortened to HAL, is an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields....