Eva Miranda selected to deliver a distinguished lecture in the Recent Mathematical Advances Distinguished Lecture Series
Apr 17, 2026
This series brings together leading international researchers to present recent advances in mathematics. Among the recent speakers are prominent figures such as Nalini Anantharaman, Anna Wienhard, Alexander Razborov, and Anton Zorich. The lecture will be accessible online upon prior registration.
🗓 May 26, 2026
🕔 5:00 PM (Barcelona time)
📍 Online format
Registration:
https://amathr.org/amr-rma/eva-miranda-rma/
Title
The Shape of the Undecidable
Abstract
Can the laws of nature perform computation?
This talk shows how Alan Turing’s undecidability can emerge in concrete physical systems. Building on Stephen Smale’s geometric chaos and Christopher Moore’s generalized shifts, results are presented where fluids (Euler and Navier–Stokes) and mechanical systems such as billiards become computationally universal.
The framework of Topological Kleene Field Theories allows us to understand flows as computational processes and opens the door to a fundamental question: can the dynamics of classical systems, such as the three-body problem, contain undecidable behaviors?
About the speaker
Eva Miranda is a full professor at UPC, a member of IMTech, and an ICREA Acadèmia researcher (2016, 2021). She has received the François Deruyts Prize and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, among other international distinctions.
She is a member of the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), leads the Laboratory of Geometry and Dynamical Systems at EPSEB, heads the GEOMVAP group, and co-leads SYMCREA. She has been an invited speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics and a Hardy Lecturer of the London Mathematical Society, and recently served as a Gauss Professor in Göttingen and a Nachdiplom lecturer at ETH Zürich.
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