Welcome to the Global Math Summit

Sponsored by IMARK Impact, this pivotal event will be held from September 28 to October 1, 2025 at the Hotel Regina Margherita in Sardinia, Italy. 

Notable Attendees

  • Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College

    Dr. Francis Su is the former president of the Mathematical Association of America.  He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His research is in topological and geometric combinatorics and applications to the sciences, including game theory, voting theory, and the mathematics of fair decisions. He has co-authored numerous papers with undergraduates. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

    Su also has a passion for teaching and popularizing mathematics through writing and public engagement. His work has been featured in Quanta Magazine, Wired, and the New York Times. He authors the popular Math Fun Facts website. Three of his articles have been featured in Princeton Press' Best Writing on Mathematics in 2011, 2014, and 2018. 

    From the Mathematical Association of America, he received the 2018 Halmos-Ford award for mathematical writing, and the 2013 Haimo Award for distinguished teaching of college-level mathematics. His book, Mathematics for Human Flourishing, published by Yale University Press, won the 2021 Euler Book Prize, and has been translated into 8 languages. It offers an inclusive vision of what math is, who it’s for, and why anyone should learn it.

  • Jo Boaler Professor at Stanford University

    Dr. Jo Boaler is a Stanford Professor.  Her goal is to have all learners – and all people – know they are limitless. She works to remove the structural barriers that stop students going forward, including systemic racism – and share the strategies that empower teachers to be their most effective. Boaler is a lover of beautiful, creative mathematics and knows that people are changed when they experience mathematics in this way. She also prioritizes teaching of multidimensional mathematics, which makes more students successful. When students are provided with a rich, creative, growth experience, they change as people, the ways they interact with the world, and the new opportunities become open to them. This work is part of the on-going struggle for the more equitable and just society that she believes in.

  • Carnegie Mellon Math Professor | International Math OlympiadFoundation VP Advancement | Founder live.poshenloh.com novid.org expii.com

    Dr. Po Shen Loh is a social entrepreneur and mathematician, with a track record of inventing incentive-aligned solutions to address timely population-scale real-world problems, from pandemic control to helping humansociety thrive in the AI era. He is a math professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and served a decade-long term as the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team from 2013–2023. Since 2023, he has been the Vice President of the IMO Foundation, as the founder and organizer of the annual IMO Alumni Reunion. His latest innovation brings together math stars and professional actors, to mass-produce live-streamed creative problem-solving lessons that match the engagement level of online video entertainment.

    As an academic, Po-Shen has earned distinctions ranging from an International Mathematical Olympiad silver medal to the United States Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. His pure scientific research considered a variety of questions that lie at the intersection of combinatorics (the study of discrete systems), probability theory, and computer science. As an educator, he was the coach of Carnegie Mellon University’s math team when it achieved its first-ever #1 rank among all North American universities, and the coach of the USA Math Olympiad team when it achieved its first-ever back-to-back #1-rank victories in 2015 and 2016, and then again in 2018 and 2019. His research and educational outreach takes him to cities across the world, reaching over 10,000 people each year through public lectures and events, and he has featured in or co-created videos totaling over 24 million YouTube views.

    Po-Shen received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Caltech in 2004, graduating with the highest GPA in his class. He received a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2005, where he was supported by a Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarship. He continued his studies at Princeton, supported by a Hertz Foundation Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, where he completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the end of 2009, and has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University ever since.

  • Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College

    Dr. Art Benjamin earned his B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon and his PhD in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins. Since 1989, he has taught at Harvey Mudd College, where he is the Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics and past Chair. In 2000, he received the Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching by the Mathematical Association of America, and served as the MAA’s Polya Lecturer from 2006 to 2008.

    His research interests include combinatorics and number theory, with a special fondness for Fibonacci numbers. Many of these ideas appear in his book (co-authored with Jennifer Quinn), “Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof”, published by MAA. In 2006, that book received the Beckenbach Book Prize by the MAA.  Professors Benjamin and Quinn were the editors of Math Horizons magazine from 2004 through 2008. He is the 2017 recipient of the Communications Award from the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics.

    He has created six DVD courses for The Great Courses on The Joy of Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics, The Secrets of Mental Math, The Mathematics of Games and Puzzles, Math & Magic, and Fibonacci Numbers & the Golden Ratio. He is a past winner of the American Backgammon Tour and is in the American Backgammon Hall of Fame. He is Past President of the Fibonacci Association. 

    Dr. Benjamin is also a professional magician who performs his mixture of math and magic to audiences all over the world, including the Magic Castle in Hollywood. He has demonstrated and explained his calculating talents in his book “Secrets of Mental Math” and on numerous television and radio programs, including The Today Show, CNN, and National Public Radio. He has been featured in Scientific American, Omni, Discover, People, Esquire, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Reader’s Digest. Reader’s Digest calls him “America’s Best Math Whiz.”