The BIOMAT Consortium / International Institute for Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Biological Sciences, a non-profit association of members of Universities and Research Institutions in five continents, has created interdisciplinary conferences since the year 2001. These BIOMAT Symposia – BIOMAT International Symposia on Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Biological Sciences – are adequate for creating opportunities to assemble together professionals from several fields, from applied mathematicians and theoretical physicists to biologists, biochemists, experts on computing as well as research engineers and physicians. The only link which is supposed to exist among them is the scientific interest on topics of the interface between Mathematical and Biological Sciences.
BIOMAT Consortium – Extended and Updated Version
The BIOMAT Consortium – International Institute for Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Biological Sciences – I³MBS, is a non-profit international scientific association composed of professionals, postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students, and researchers working at the interface between Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Biological Sciences. The BIOMAT Consortium organized 25 international conferences annually from 2001 to 2025. The book BIOMAT 2025, from the Trends in Biomathematics collection, published by Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, will be released with a summary of the history of the BIOMAT Consortium, containing the main facts from these 25 conferences. The countries and respective conference locations were:
1. BIOMAT 2001 – Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics – IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 02 – 04, 2001. 1st International Conference of Biomathematics in South America, 273 registered participants.
2. BIOMAT 2002 – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 22 – 24, 2002.
3. BIOMAT 2003 – Oswaldo Cruz Institute Foundation – FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 22 – 26, 2003.
4. BIOMAT 2004 – State University of Santa Cruz, UESC, São Jorge dos Ilhéus, BA, Brazil, November 27 – December 01, 2004.
5. BIOMAT 2005 – National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, LNCC, Petropolis, RJ, Brazil, December 03 – 08, 2005.
6. Federal University of Amazonas, UFAM, Manaus, AM, Brazil, November 25 – 30, 2006.
7. BIOMAT 2007 – Armação de Búzios, RJ, Brazil, Pérola Hotel, November 24 – 29, 2007.
8. BIOMAT 2008 – Campos do Jordão, SP, Brazil, Glória Hotel, November 22 – 27, 2008.
9. BIOMAT 2009 – National University of Brasilia, UNB, Brasilia, DF, Brazil, August 01 – 06, 2009.
10. BIOMAT 2010 – School of Naval Warfare, Brazilian Navy, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, July 24 – 29. The BIOMAT Consortium has organized the first International Symposium of the Society for Mathematical Biology in South America, the SMB 2010. together with the BIOMAT 2010, by invitation of the SMB Society and the recommendation of Prof. Nick Britton from Bath University, UK, during the SMB 2009, in Vancouver, Canada.
11. BIOMAT 2011 – University del Maule, Santiago de Chile, Chile, November 05 – 10, 2011.
12. BIOMAT 2012 – Tempe, Arizona, USA, Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, November 06 -10.
13. BIOMAT 2013 – Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences. Toronto, Canada, November 04 -08, 2013.
14. BIOMAT 2014 – Stefan Banach Institute of Mathematics, Bedlewo near Poznan, Poland, November 03 – 07, 2014.
15. BIOMAT 2015 – Roorkee Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India, November 02 – 06, 2015.
16. BIOMAT 2016 – Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, October 30 – November 04, 2016.
17. BIOMAT 2017 – Steklov Mathematical Institute, Institute of Numerical Mathematiics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, October 30 – November 03, 2017.
18. BIOMAT 2018 – Hassan II University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mohammedia, Morocco, October 29 – November 02, 2018.
19. BIOMAT 2019 – Institute Bolyai of Mathematics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, October 21 – 25, 2019.
20. BIOMAT 2020 – BIOMAT Consortium Headquarters at Rio de Janeiro, National Research Network of Brazil (RNP), Greenwich Mean Time, GMT(-3). Online, November 02 – 06, 2020.
21. BIOMAT 2021 – BIOMAT Consortium Headquarters at Rio de Janeiro, National Research Network of Brazil (RNP), Greenwich Mean Time, GMT(-3). Online, November 01 – 05, 2021.
22. BIOMAT 2022 – BIOMAT Consortium Headquarters at Rio de Janeiro, National Research Network of Brazil (RNP), Greenwich Mean Time, GMT(-3). Online, November 07 – 11, 2022.
23. BIOMAT 2023 – BIOMAT Consortium Headquarters at Rio de Janeiro, National Research Network of |Brazil (RNP), Greenwich Mean Time, GMT(-3). Online, November 06 – 10, 2023.
24. BIOMAT 2024 – Orthodox Academy of Crete, Kolympari, Chania, Greece. Hybrid, October 27 – November 02. 2024.
25. BIOMAT 2025 – Serbian Academy of Nonlinear Sciences, Mathematical Institute of Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hotel Palace, Belgrade, Serbia. Hybrid, November 10 – 14, 2025.
Following BIOMAT tradition since its founding in 2001, we do not have parallel sessions. Sessions with Keynote Speakers will last 50 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions and comments, and sessions with contributed paper presentations will last 25 minutes, plus five minutes for questions and comments. We usually have ten to twelve sessions per day, during the five days, and a maximum of 60 to 80 in-person speakers.
All papers accepted through a peer-review process conducted by the Editorial Board of the BIOMAT Consortium and other international reviewers abroad will be published as indexed chapters, with independent DOI link numbers, in a volume of the Trends in Biomathematics Collection from Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland.
President: Rubem P. Mondaini, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Centre of Technology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
General Secretary: Simâo C. de Albuquerque Neto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Centre of Health Sciences, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
BIOMAT CONSORTIUM BOARD OF DIRECTORS (2024 – 2027)
WE – WESTERN EUROPE – Lucia Maddalena, High Performance Computing and Networking Institute, Naples, Italy; Vitaly Volpert, Claude Bernard University Lyon I, France
EE – EASTERN EUROPE – Sándor Kovács, Roland Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary; Gergely Röst, University of Szeged, Hungary; Branko Dragovich, University of Belgrade, Serbia
NA – NORTH AMERICA – Panos Pardalos, University of Florida , USA; Jane Heffernan, York University, Canada
SA – SOUTH AMERICA – Rubem Mondaini, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
AF – AFRICA – Karam Allali, University Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco; Hamid Lefraich, Université Hassan Premier, Settat, Morocco
AS – ASIA – Somdatta Sinha, Indian Institute for Science Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India; Prashant Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India; Samares Pal, University of Kalyani, India
OC – OCEANIA – To be announced – Following the passing of Prof. Charles E. M. Pearce of the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 2011, the BIOMAT Consortium is left without a representative from Oceania on its Board of Directors. Prof. Pearce was an exemplary scientist in his many contributions to the interdisciplinary mathematical and biological sciences. A tribute to him was published in the opening pages of the book BIOMAT 2011, published by World Scientific Co. Pte. Ltd. On behalf of the BIOMAT Consortium, we would be grateful if a fellow scientist could be nominated in the current year 2026 as the Representative from Oceania on the Board of Directors.
BIOMAT CONSORTIUM’S POSTERS, 2001 – 2025
BIOMAT BOOKS, 2001 – 2025