As part of the celebrations of Boole’s bicentenary, the George Boole Mathematical Sciences (GBMS) Conference will be held in University College Cork (UCC) during the last two weeks of August 2015. This is the first in a series of conferences and events to promote the George Boole Focus Programme in Mathematical Sciences at the School of Mathematical Sciences (SMS) which aims at maintaining and improving UCC as a focal point of mathematical research in Ireland with global visibility. The conference included more than 100 lectures on selected vibrant areas of modern mathematical research.