Ingenio MATHEMATICA (i-MATH) is a CONSOLIDER singular research project for the period 2006-2011. It proposes a complete activity research program for Spanish mathematics, with the purpose of promoting and carrying out strategic actions of national scope that qualitatively and quantitatively increase mathematical presence on the international scene, and in the Spanish system of science, technology and business and on the international scene. i-MATH is an initiative promoted and financed by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science with a budget of 7,500,000 €. i-MATH is a network structured around a coordinator-researcher (Enrique Zuazua), a management center (University of Cantabria), a steering commitee (SC), five nodes (CESGA, CIEM, CRM, ICMAT and IMUB) and more than 340 principal researchers (PRs) and their research groups.

The Research Activity Program of i-MATH covers a very wide scope and is structured around four main thematic areas:

• From basic research to applications
• How to understand the physical world
• The essential computational support
• Direct applications to society