A Nordic institute for research in mathematics

Institut Mittag-Leffler is an international center for research and postdoctoral training in the mathematical sciences.
It was founded in 1916 by Professor Gösta Mittag-Leffler and his wife Signe, who donated their magnificent villa with its first-class library for the purpose of creating the Institute that bears their name.
The Institute, the oldest mathematics research institute in the world, operates under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences but enjoys great autonomy.

The mission of Institut Mittag-Leffler is to support international top-level research in mathematics, with special attention to the development of mathematical research in the Nordic countries. This is done primarily in the following three ways:

* Research programs
A special subject area within the mathematical sciences, pure or applied, is chosen for each semester or full year. Internationally leading mathematicians in that area are invited along with Swedish and Nordic researchers. Postdoctoral grants are offered to junior participants. The research programs offer mathematicians the opportunity to spend a period of time at the Institute doing research under optimal circumstances, in the company of and in collaboration with the internationally leading scientists in their respective fields.

* Publication of journals
The journal Acta Mathematica, founded by G. Mittag-Leffler in 1882, is one of the most prestigious mathematics research journals in the world. It is published by the Institute together with its younger companion Arkiv för matematik, founded in 1903.

* Resource for mathematics in the Nordic countries
It is part of the Institute's mission to support mathematics and mathematicians in the Nordic countries and to serve as a contact and link to the international research community.