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Marina Garrote, Daniel Gil, Mar Giralt, Eulalia Montoro, Tássio Naia, Jordi Piñero and Iñigo Urtiaga Erneta joined the department this September.

A single ball bouncing across a billiard table can compute anything a computer can compute. This is the conclusion of an article by Professor Eva Miranda (UPC–CRM) and Isaac Ramos, Eva Miranda’s master’s student at ETH Zürich, recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The MAPTHE and CoDAlab research groups took part in the Health Day, “Applied Research: The Strength of Industry,” organized by UPC and the BCN Medicare Industrial Hub on September 15, 2026.

The four professors officially took up their new positions on 20 July 2026, together with 23 other newly appointed full professors, in a ceremony presided over by the Rector of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

They prove that quantum Latin squares cannot solve Euler’s 36 officers problem without entanglement.

From 23 to 30 July, the ICM is taking place in Philadelphia, USA, the world’s most important scientific meeting in mathematics.

Professor Eva Miranda has been awarded the new international reference prize from the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM).

MARIA is a portable device designed to improve the early detection of breast cancer.

J. Curbelo, professor in the department, receives a new international recognition that consolidates her scientific leadership.

The Matrix Analysis and Discrete Potential Theory group (MAPTHE) presents MARIA, a pioneering prototype in the medical field.