Former and current UNM faculty and students will have a presence at the
International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) to be held in
August 2018 in Rio De Janeiro.

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest
conference for the topic of mathematics.
It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical
Union (IMU).

The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize, the Gauss Prize, and the Chern
Medal are awarded during the congress's opening ceremony. Each
congress is memorialized by a printed set of Proceedings recording
academic papers based on invited talks intended to be relevant to
current topics of general interest. [Wikipedia] Numerous Satellite
Conferences are organized before and after the ICM congresses.

Two former UNM faculty are invited speakers at the ICM 2018: Wojciech
Kucharz (Poland) in the Algebraic and Complex Geometry Session,
and   Vladimir Koltchinskii (GATech) in the Probability and Statistics
Session.

PhD Graduate Jean Moraes (Professor at Universidad Federal do Rio Grande
do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil) and UNM Professor Cristina
Pereyra  are co-organizing  the ICM 2018 Harmonic Analysis Satellite
Conference to be held in Porto Alegre July 24-29, 2018  prior to
the ICM in Rio de Janeiro, see
  http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/approved-satellite-events
and the conference webpage  https://www.ufrgs.br/haicm2018

UNM Professors Alex Buium, Terry Loring, Cristina Pereyra, and Maxim
Zinchenko are respectively coauthors of Professors Bjorn Poonen
(MIT), Rui Exel ((Brazil), Stefanie Petermichl (France), and Alexander
Poltoratski (Texas A&M), all invited speakers at the 2018 ICM.

Furthermore, two invited speakers at the 2018 ICM have recently visited
UNM. First, Professor Ciprian Demeter (Indiana University)
visited UNM in 2017 invited by UNM Professor Matthew Blair. Second,
Professor Svitlana Mayboroda (U. Minnesota and the first recipient
of the AWM-Sadosky Research Award in 2014) was  plenary speaker in the
Conference honoring Cora Sadosky held in April 2014, at UNM,
moreover her first conference while still  a  graduate student at U.
Missouri-Columbia was a New Mexico Analysis Seminar which she remembers fondly.