On November 10, 2025, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences will host the Atanasoff Memorial Day event – a new initiative of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS-Sofia) at the IMI-BAS. The organizers’ ambition is to hold the event every year, thus commemorating the memory of John Vincent Atanasoff (1903–1995) – a computer pioneer, inventor of a model of an electronic digital computer and renowned as the “Bulgarian – father of the electronic computer”, by marking the intersection of mathematics, computer calculations and complexity sciences – the fields that unite topology, geometry and machine learning in the 21st century and connect Bulgaria’s intellectual heritage with the world’s scientific peaks in the field of mathematics and calculations.
Every year, a series of lectures will be held in the Atanasoff Memorial Day program – the Atanasoff Memorial Lecture Series. This year’s theme, “In Topological, Computational & Algebraic Aspects of Complex Systems and Machine Learning,” will examine the interplay between modern computational methods and deep geometric structures.