Jointly   organized   with  AIMS-Senegal   and   the   Senegalese   Women   in   Mathematics Association (SWMA) created in 2015, the forum focused on Financial and Actuarial Mathematics. It   highlighted   advanced   and   new   scientific   works   on   Financial   and   Actuarial Mathematics.

The workshop program included four mini-courses of 3hours and 45 minutes each. Diane Wilcox, University of Witwatersrand, Christian Francq, University of Lille and CREST-Paris, Olivier Menoukeu  Pamen,  University of Liverpool, Akim Adekpedjou, University of Missouri Sciences and Technology delivered them. The forum showed the participation of young people coming from various countries. There   were   31   participants   (researchers,   young   faculty,   and   advanced   graduate students) coming from:  Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, France, United Kingdom, Togo, Ghana.

For the website go here. A short report can be found here.

This conference was devoted to the memory of Academician Mileva Prvanovic, who was one of the founders of (Yugoslav) Geometrical Seminars(which were established 45-50 years ago), and who passed away in February of 2016.

In the work of the conference, eminent participants from 27 different countries from 4 continents were presented (mainly) new and original works on the following topics: Differential and Discrete Geometry and their Applications, Topology, Lie Theory, Mathematical Physics, Integrable Systems, Visualization and related topics and Applications.

For further information see the website.

The CIMPA-ICTP research school “Lattices and applications to cryptography and coding theory" was organized by Saigon University (SGU) and University of Science (HCMUS, VNU-HCMC) at Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. It was held at Saigon University during August 01 – 12,2016. 

Official website with updated information

The classes were given by nine lecturers including two Vietnamese lecturers (one from Finland and one from Japan), two from France, three from Italy and two from Netherlands; there are two female lecturers which is 22. 2% of total lecturers. There are 104 participants from 22 countries.

The aim of the conference was to bring together leading mathematicians and young researchers (graduate students), to discuss modern advances in the vast diversity of topics professor Borisenko contributed to. The primary goal of the event was to boost through the broad list of participants the development of geometry in Kharkiv region, Ukraine and some neighboring countries (Belarus, Poland, Serbia, Russia). As the secondary goal, the conference served as a platform that will gather together several generations of mathematicians for an intense scientific exchange and collaboration. And finally, the third goal of the event was to promote Ukrainian science in general.

The conference took place at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv Univeristy in Kharkiv, Ukraine from September 12 till September 16, 2016. For the complete and detailed information we refer to the web-site of the conference (http://magt.karazin.ua).

GeToPhyMa is a series of summer schools organized since 2011 by the research group Moroccan Area of Algebraic Topology (MAAT : http ://algtop.net). The school is essentially intended for students and young researchers in geometry, topology and mathematical physics. Researchers in other fields can take advantage of introductory courses and are cordially invited to join the school. The main objective is to provide participants with a solid backround in algebraic topology, and assimilating them to current research topics such operads, string theory, applied and computational topology, algebraic geometry, ...

The 70 attendees were coming from all continents :
— Africa : Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Kenya.
— Europe : Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Serbia, Germany, Belgium.
— Americas : USA, Chili, Colombia.
— Asia : Koweit, Japan, Palestine.

 For more information please click here.

The SEAMS School “Topics in Stochastic Analysis” is organized by Sanata Dharma University (USD) at Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It was held at Kampus III USD in Paingan, Yogyakarta from August 3 to August 11 of 2016. The school started on August 3. The opening ceremony took place on the main building of Kampus III USD including speeches given by the rector of Sanata Dharma University (Johanes Eka Priyatma, Ph.D) and the representative of the lecturers of the school (Prof. Ludwig Streit).

The SEAMS School focused on various topics in stochastic analysis such as basics of stochastic calculus and its applications in finance, insurance, biology, physics, as well as advanced topics including white noise theory, fractional Brownian motion and interacting particle systems. After the School is finished, the participants are expected to have broad knowledge and sufficient background to start research in this area. The school is expected also as a mean to build cooperation between mathematicians in the region.

The International Conference of Applications of Mathematics to Non-linear Sciences (AMNS-2016) was successfully held in Kathmandu, Nepal from May 26 to 29 of 2016. In addition, a Mathematical Biology Workshop was organized on the first day of the conference. The conference drew more than 200 participants from 17 countries around the world. Among these participants, 87 of them also attended the Mathematical Biology Workshop. Five major themes of the AMNS-2016 conference were “Differential Equations and Nonlinear Analysis”, “Probability, Statistics, and Big Data”, “Mathematical Biology”, “Algebra, Topology, and Mathematical Education”, and “Numerical Analysis, Scientific computation, and Optimization”. Along with the Principal Speakers Dr. Dongho Chae (Korea), Gerhard Pfister (Germany), Ratnasingham Shivaji (USA), Lindi M. Wahl (Canada), and Jiahong Wu (USA), the total of 104 talks and 22 posters were presented during the conference. The detailed abstract and the other conference information are found in the conference website.

The IMU has been very sensitive to the needs of mathematicians working in developing and economically disadvantaged countries. In order to consolidate the efforts of the IMU to help such mathematicians through its various agencies, it established the CDC in 2011, which is responsible for all IMU initiatives to help mathematicians from developing countries.

Major problems faced by such mathematicians include working in understaffed mathematics departments and being subjected to heavy teaching loads, thereby having very little time for pursuing individual research interests. Further, each mathematician is often the only person working in his/her research area and so (s)he cannot have useful and stimulating mathematical discussions which are essential to generate new ideas in research. Such mathematicians need time off from their usual duties to recharge their intellectual batteries and to initiate collaborative research with mathematicians working in centres of excellence elsewhere in the world under favourable working conditions.

The need for support is particularly high in Africa. According to the United Nation's 2013 Human Development Report, out of the 46 poorest countries in the world, 37 are located in Africa. To overcome this problem the IMU Commission for Developing Countries (IMU CDC) is launching the "IMU - Simons African Fellowship Program" a research travel support program aimed for African Mathematicians working in African developing countries.

The program will allow African mathematicians to travel to a centre of excellence in any part of the world for collaborative research. The program is funded by the Simons Foundation from New York who has granted USD 50,000 per year for five consecutive years starting in September 2016. The Fellowship grant covers travel, accommodation, visa, travel insurance and living costs up to USD 5,000.

The duration of the visit should be of a reasonable length of time to allow fruitful interaction. In particular, the minimal length of a visit is one month. Interested mathematicians must hold a valid doctoral degree and must be employed as a faculty member of a university or equivalent institution.

Further information can be found on the program website.

The IMU-CDC is very thankful for the generous support by the Simons Foundation.

The CIMPA school (International Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics) took place between 2016-07-11 - 2016-07-21.

The school "Combinatorics and Algorithmics" proposal aims to strengthen scientific interactions between researchers of the Ocean Indian Islands and their french and spanish colleagues. The school is intended to form PhD and Master students from the islands of Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion Island on the fields of the workshop. Another major goal is to establish and reinforce scientific exchanges, existing collaborations and to initiate new ones during the school.

The main themes lie in the study of Computer Science, Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Random Structures, Randomized Algorithms. The school's principal objective concentrates on how to elaborate algorithms and to quantify their complexities by means of combinatorial and probabilistic methods.