Rabat: A Moroccan-Mexican mathematics meeting kicked off on Monday in Rabat, at the headquarters of the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, with the participation of experts representing various research centers and university institutions from both countries.

According to Agence Marocaine De Presse, this two-day event, organized at the initiative of the College of Modeling and Information Sciences under the Academy, aims to create and strengthen ties between the mathematical communities of Morocco and Mexico, as well as to present recent advances in several research fields, notably analysis, probability, and partial differential equations.

Speaking at the opening session of this meeting, the Permanent Secretary of the Academy, Omar Fassi-Fehri, stated that the usefulness of mathematics and its applications in virtually all areas of human activity make it an almost universal discipline. Fassi-Fehri added that the day serves to highlight the important role of mathematics at the scientific level across all disciplines, ranging from exact sciences to the humanities, and at the moral level, given the virtues mathematics fosters in terms of rigor, logic, objectivity, and critical thinking.

Jos© Seade, the President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and member of the Institute of Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, noted that mathematics is central to scientific development. He emphasized that this meeting provides an ideal opportunity to strengthen Moroccan-Mexican collaboration in the field. Seade expressed hope that this first meeting will mark the beginning of a lasting partnership, observing that the two countries share deep similarities conducive to strengthening their scientific and technological cooperation.

By fostering sustained scientific dialogue over two days, this event will contribute to establishing new prospects for bilateral collaboration and to strengthening Morocco’s international standing in the field of mathematics.