Institute of Mathematics, Research institute at University of Campinas, Brazil

The Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing is a research facility within the university with three departments covering pure mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistical studies. The building houses seven specialized laboratories, including facilities for image processing and dynamic systems analysis.

The institute belongs to Unicamp, created by state law on 28 December 1962, with effective operations beginning in 1966; the first lecture had been held on 20 May 1963. Campus construction in Barão Geraldo started on 5 October 1966, the first building completed being the Institute of Biology. The mathematics institute is one of the units that grew on that campus, offering undergraduate degrees in Statistics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and five postgraduate programs.

The institute shapes the mathematical community through regular seminars and lectures by visiting mathematicians from around the world. These gatherings bring researchers together and foster the exchange of emerging ideas within the academic sphere.

The institute occupies the Unicamp main campus in the Barão Geraldo district, about 12 km from downtown Campinas, in a valley near the intersections of several highways. The campus was laid out from 1966 on 110 hectares donated by the Almeida Prado family. The institute is one of 19 institutes and schools on the campus, which also holds the Hospital de Clínicas.

The institute runs seven research laboratories, among them the Laboratory of Discrete Mathematics and Codes (LMDC) and the Parallel Computing Laboratory (LCP). Its Department of Applied Mathematics also covers computational geophysics and mathematical image processing and computational intelligence.