The Mathematical Physics Summer School 2026 officially opened at VNUHCM–University of Science (HCMUS) on 10 August. Jointly organised by HCMUS and the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM), the Summer School runs from 10 to 14 August 2026, bringing together scientists, lecturers, researchers and students from Ģ����ý and around the world.

Alongside Vietnamese higher education institutions including HCMUS, VNUHCM–University of Technology and Quy Nhon University, this year’s programme features experts from leading research institutes and universities worldwide, including Pennsylvania State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University and the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States; CNRS and ENS Lyon in France; Beijing Institute of Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China; The University of Tokyo in Japan; National University of Singapore in Singapore; and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.

In his opening remarks, Assoc. Prof. Trần Lê Quan, President of HCMUS, and Assoc. Prof. Lê Minh Hà, Executive Director of VIASM, highlighted the significance of the programme in strengthening connections among researchers in Ģ����ý and around the world. As Mathematical Physics continues to develop through increasingly interdisciplinary approaches, the Summer School provides an academic forum for scientists, researchers and students to exchange ideas, engage with current developments and explore emerging research questions.

The programme continued with a presentation by Prof. Nguyễn Trọng Toán, representing the Scientific Committee, who introduced the academic direction and structure of the Mathematical Physics Summer School 2026. The programme has been designed as an intensive academic forum combining foundational lectures, research-focused courses, invited talks and discussions, enabling participants to deepen knowledge, broaden academic perspectives and engage directly with specialists in the field.

As part of the Summer School, international and Vietnamese experts are delivering four specialised lecture series, alongside invited talks and short presentations, covering a range of contemporary research topics including conservation laws, extremal black hole thresholds, large bosonic systems, stochastic quantisation, incompressible Euler equations, epidemic models, quantum mechanics and partial differential equations.

The four main lecture series are led by Prof. Alberto Bressan of Pennsylvania State University, Prof. Christoph Kehle of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof. Nicolas Rougerie of CNRS and ENS Lyon, and Prof. Rongchan Zhu of Beijing Institute of Technology. The lecture series address advanced topics in conservation laws, extremal black holes, semiclassical tools for large bosonic systems and stochastic quantisation.

The programme also features invited talks by Prof. Yao Yao of National University of Singapore, Prof. Akitoshi Hoshiya of The University of Tokyo, Prof. Oanh Nguyen of Brown University and Prof. Xiangchan Zhu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The talks broaden the scope of academic exchange, connecting different approaches to contemporary research in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics.

In particular, short presentations by early-career researchers from Ģ����ý, China, Germany and the United States have created a lively forum for discussion, presenting recent findings in areas of Mathematical Physics including quantum spin systems, nonlinear Schrödinger equations, fermionic systems on lattices, quantum walks and Bose–Einstein condensates.

The Mathematical Physics Summer School 2026 builds on VIASM’s academic collaboration in Mathematical Physics, following the VIASM–IAMP Summer School 2023 in Quy Nhon and the VIASM Summer School 2024 in Hue. The programme also looks ahead to the International Congress on Mathematical Physics (ICMP 2027), scheduled to take place in Da Nang in 2027.