Summer School in Mathematics

Welcome!

Important Dates

Application for
financial support:
April 30, 2026

Deadline for paying
the reduced fee:
May 15, 2026

Final deadline for registration:
June 20, 2026

Summer school:
June 29 – July 3, 2026

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The Institute of Mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University will organize its regular one week long summer school between June 29 and July 3, 2026. The main topic of the school will be

ALGEBRAIC CURVES

The topic of algebraic curves is an area of mathematics that is fundamental in topology, complex analysis, number theory and differential geometry via Riemann Surfaces, especially elliptic curves, and, in turn, widely applied, for example, in cryptography and robotics, or in string theory. The summer School concentrates mostly on topological aspects, like classification and the genus formula for projective curves, algebraic knots and links, algebraic plane curve singularities, monodromy, Milnor number and fibers.

The summer school will consist of lectures and of practice classes, delivered by professors of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and of HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest (RI). The featured speaker and main coordinator of the program is Prof. András Némethi (RI, ELTE). The lectures will be aimed at advanced undergraduate / starting graduate students but interested PhD students are also welcome. We expect that participants would have a solid background in basic undergraduate mathematics (in particular, algebra, analysis, geometry and topology).

Although an independent event, the summer school is also related to the research month, organized by ELTE and RI for BSc and MSc students (for more information, see the web page of the event).

The lectures will take place at the Lágymányos Campus of Eötvös Loránd University (1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c, Hungary).

List of possible topics:

algebraic curves, global and local classification problems
plane curve singularities
Puiseux parametrizations
classification of algebraic links
Milnor fibration, monodromy zeta function
lattice homology of algebraic links
global properties of projective plane curves
classification of rational cuspidal projective plane curves

City

Budapest, capital of Hungary is also known as The Pearl of the Danube. Regardless of the length of your stay, whether you come for one day or a week, you will always find enough things to do or places to visit: you can climb the Castle Hill and enjoy the view of the Danube and the Pest side of the city; you can have a walk through the City Park and visit one of the numerous museums (e.g. Museum of Fine Arts or the newly built House of Music) or the Millenium Monument; or in the evening you may want to attend an opera performance in the recently renovated Opera House. Thus, if you are interested in a true European metropolitan city with a vivid cultural life, then Budapest is an obvious choice.

Cost and Deadlines

The fee for participation in the Summer School is 120 euros (135 USD) if paid by May 15, and 170 euros (190 USD) afterwards. The fee covers printed course material and refreshments.

Please note that the university is not able to refund the registration fee in case of cancellation.

Deadline of application for financial support: April 30, 2026

Registration begins on April 1, 2026 and will be closed on June 20, 2026. See the payment information.

First day of classes: June 29, 2026 (9 AM)

Last day of classes: July 3, 2026 (early afternoon)

Cancellation policy

Please, note that due to university restrictions we are unable to send back the transferred registration fee even if you have to cancel your participation for medical reasons or for travel restrictions affecting your entrance to Hungary. However in this case you may use your fee to cover the registration cost of another (registered or unregistered) participant. Please, let us know if you would like to ask for such an arrangement.
The organizers would like to reserve the right to cancel the event if the external circumstances would warrant such measures. In this exceptional case we will try to refund the participants by sending back the registration fee (within a month). However we will ask each participant to apply for such remibursement individually and let us know the account number to which the money should be sent back. — If cancellation seems to be unavoidable, we would inform participants about this by June 23, 2026.

Financial support

Financial support in the form of

complete or partial waiver of the registration fee

will be available in limited numbers for the participants. If you would like to apply for support, please, send a letter before April 30, 2026 to the organizers. The letter should also contain:

a short CV, containing among others your study data and motivation
a recommendation letter

A decision based on academic excellence and financial circumstances will be made by the organizers before May 10, 2026. Due to the limited amount of available resources we encourage everyone to apply for external funding, too.

Venue

Address of the university: 1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C
Lectures will be held in room 3-218, in the Southern Building of ELTE.