Based in Buenos Aires, the Instituto Argentino de Matemática (I. A. M.) [1] is a research center of the National Research Council of Argentina ( CONICET). It is named after Alberto Pedro Calderón in honor of one of its former directors, the Argentinian mathematician widely recognized as a towering figure of 20th-century mathematics. The overarching goal of the institute is to promote the development of pure and applied mathematics research in Argentina.