| 12th Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry |
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Charmey, 30 January to 3 February, 2023
The 12th Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry took place on 30 January to 3 February 2023 at the Centre de Vacances VIVA GRUYERE in Charmey, with a historical
participation of 52 researchers and two family caretakers.
The mini-courses, each consisting of five lectures, were given by Xavier Caruso (Université de Bordeaux), Nguyen-Bac Dang (Université Paris-Saclay) and Victoria Hoskins
(Radboud University Nijmegen). Six additional talks, 50min each, were given by postdocs and PhD students.
The familiar atmosphere promoted many mathematical discussions and networking opportunities, with young and advanced researchers discussing easily and freely.
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| SMS Doctoral Day |
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Neuchâtel, March 14, 2023
The 2023 edition of the SMS Doctoral Day held at Université de Neuchâtel. It hosted more than 40 participants from all Switzerland. The event started by some welcoming
words by Alain Valette and continued by 10 short talks by PhD students and postdoc on different mathematical subjets. The Day ended with a plenary talk by Dr. María
Cumplido Cabello from the University of Sevilla on Mental health during the PhD. The participants also discussed about their works and exchanged and shared their
experiences during the social part of the program.
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| Fribourg MAPS |
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Fribourg, April 13-15, 2023
The workshop Fribourg MAPS (Metric Analysis, Parametrizations, Surfaces) was attended by approximately 40 participants from Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Poland,
Sweden, and Switzerland. In addition to nine 50-min presentations by invited speakers and a poster session, the three-day event offered ample opportunities for networking
across different career stages and different subfields of geometric analysis such as analysis on metric spaces, geometric measure theory, conformal and quasiconformal
mappings, and geometric group theory. The organized networking activities facilitated the interaction between researchers who have not previously met. According to
participants’ feedback, the conference overall, the talks, the choice of research topics, as well as the emphasis on networking opportunities were successful and
appreciated.
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| Borel Seminar on Lattices in Negative Curvature |
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Les Diablerets, July 17-21, 2023
Together with her colleagues Martin Deraux (Grenoble) and Vincent Emery (BFH Biel), Ruth Kellerhals performed the conference on Lattices in Negative
Curvature as a Borel Seminar within the traditional CUSO maths series, and this during the period July 17 - 21, 2023, in the
Hotel Les Sources at Les Diablerets.
The conference covered various topics in the realm of real, complex and quaternionic hyperbolic geometry.
The number 23 of participants was small though, and in particular the number of CUSO PhD students was lower than expected. On the other hand,
the scientific quality of the invited speakers was exceptionally high, and their lectures were outstanding. The mini-course speaker Alexander
Kolpakov unfortunately had to cancel his venue at the very last moment, but he could be replaced in an excellent way by Alan Reid (Rice) and
Pavel Tumarkin (Durham). All speakers, from the mini-courses to the individual lectures, were best prepared for the younger participants and
offered the audience a good introduction to and perfect overview of their research topics.
From the very beginning, the familiar atmosphere favored the desired exchange and many stimulating conversations. Highly valuable contacts
between younger and established mathematicians were made immediately.
For this reason, the main organizer Ruth Kellerhals, together with her PhD student Naomi Bredon, will organize a Junior Borel Seminar 2023 at
the University of Fribourg in early December, giving all younger participants the opportunity to present their own research results and to
further deepen the existing contacts.
All details of the Borel Seminar 2023 are available on the corresponding webpage (click title above).
The organizers and all participants thank the SMS responsibles and the other sponsors for their generous
support.
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| Young Topologists Meeting |
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Lausanne, July 24-28, 2023
The Young Topologists Meeting is an annual, international meeting of topology students primarily at a doctoral level. The biggest
conference of its kind, each year, the event rotates between the major European topology centres of KTH, the University of Copenhagen and the
Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne.
The 2023 Young Topologists meeting was held at EPFL in July 2023. The event was run for over 170
mathematics masters and doctoral students from all over the world, with participants from every continent attending and presenting. Since
it's inception, the YTM has provided a crucial stepping-stone for early-career researchers to enter the academic community and a platform for
other to engage with their work.
As part of the conference, 40 participants were invited to give presentations of their work and another 40 to give poster presentations. This
conference provides an important opportunity for students to present their work to a large audience that is largely unavailable in regular
conferences, in addition to facilitating international collaborations and academic networking opportunities.
A feature of the event was plenary talks from Marc Hoyois (University of Regensburg) and Katharine Turner (Australian National University), both
leading academics in their respective fields. Marc Hoyois presented 3 lectures on motivic homotopy theory, and Katharine Turner on the
persistent homology transform. Both topics were met with enthusiasm and well-received by the attendees.
Thanks in large part to our sponsors, the organisers were able to provide accommodation for many of the speakers and poster presenters. In
particular, this meant accessibility for participants from diverse backgrounds and institutions with access to limited funds.
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| Ventotene International Workshop |
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Ventotene, September 11-23, 2023
The VI Ventotene International Workshop took place in Ventotene (LT), Italy, September 11th-September 16th, 2023. The title this
year was "GRAZP: Groups and RIgidity around the Zimmer program", as the workshop focused on the recent proof of Zimmer's
conjecture by Brown-Fisher-Hurtado and the plethora of ramifications that this opened.
There were three minicourses, held by David Fisher (Rice University), Mitul Islam (Universität Heidelberg) and Amie Wilkinson
(University of Chicago). Each minicourse was complemented by an accompanying talk and the program included shorter talks in the
afternoon as well as a session of lighting talks at the beginning of the week.
It was attended by over 120 participants, of which over half of them students or mathematicians at the beginning of their
career.
In addition to the support from the Swiss Mathematical Society, the workshop was funded by the Zürich Graduate School in
Mathematics, the Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik, the USA National Science Foundation, the Italian GNSAGA, the Department of
Mathematics of the Università di Bologna and the Stiftung zur Förderung der mathematischen Wissenschaften in der Schweiz.
As for the previous editions, the workshop was an enormous success. It generated already a flurry of activities and lead to many
connections and collaborations among the participants.
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| Week-end des Jeunes Chercheur.ses de l'ARDM |
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Lausanne, 18 au 20 mai, 2023
Le weekend des jeunes chercheur.ses de l'Association pour la Recherche en Didactique des Mathématiques (ARDM), qui s'est tenu à
Lausanne du 18 au 20 mai 2023, a réuni 21 doctorant.es
et 4 chercheur.ses invité.es de différents pays (Suisse, France, Italie, Québec).
L'événement a permis aux doctorant.es d'établir une communauté
tout en se formant à la recherche lors des conférences, ateliers et
discussions qui ont jalonné ces quelques jours.
Les jeunes chercheur.ses ont également pu présenter leur projet dans un
environnement bienveillant et obtenir des retours constructifs afin
de poursuivre leur travail.
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