The K-theory Foundation is a non-profit corporation that seeks to promote research and scholarship in the mathematics related to K-theory. It organizes a K-theory conference every 4 years, to coincide with the ICM. On this occasion, the K-theory conference was a 2 week event,  consisting of a school followed by a workshop. The school took place at the University of La Plata, from  July 16 to July 20, and the workshop in the University of Buenos Aires, from July 23 to July 27. The whole event was an official ICM2018 Satellite event.

The K-theory prizes, meant to highlight the achievements of the most deserving mathematicians working in K-theory and related fields, are presented in these quadrennial conferences. For more information on the prizes go here.

For a short scientific report go here.

The main purpose of EMALCA (La Escuela de Matemática de América Latina y del Caribe) is, in addition to promoting the interrelation of Central American students and professors, to contribute to reducing the deficit of mathematical knowledge and the gap in research capacities in pure mathematics and applied between the countries of the region, as well as to increase in the medium term the human capital in Central America. EMALCA El Salvador was held in San Miguel and hosted 49 students. The main objectives were among others a) to strengthen a common Central American space to put students in contact with relevant topics of current interest, b) offer students the opportunity to know current research topics in several areas of mathematics and to motivate them to undertake research projects. 

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The CIMPA Research School on "Commutative Algebra with Applications to Statistics and Coding Theory" took place in Zacatecas, Mexico and was attended by a total of 41 students from 12 different countries. The program was made up of 6 lectures for the main courses, 7 invited talks, 5 contributed talks and a variety of social activities. The students participated in daily sessions of tutorials with the lecturers and the local as well as scientific community.

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The International Conference on Algebra and Related Topics 2018 (ICART 2018) was held at the Mohammed V University in Rabat and gathered more than 180 participants from 30 nationalities. The event envisaged several joint PhD projects and involved students with researchers from USA, Spain and France. It was followed by a two-days excursion to Marrakech City. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Journal "Algebra Colloquium" and in “Contemporary Mathematics” of the American Mathematical Society (for more information go here).

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The CIMPA Research School "Geometric and Homological Methods in the Representation Theory of Associative Algebras and Their Applications " was held at the Maison Marie Pouseppin during 18-27 June. Also these three universities organized the “3rd Internacional Colloquim on Representations of Algebras and Its Applications; Alexander Zabadskij”, which was held at the Maison Marie Pouseppin during June 27 – 29. Both events were held in 2018, in the city of Medellín. Both events developed mainly in the following topics: Geometric aspects of the representation theory of algebras, homological aspects of the representation theory of algebras and applications of the representation theory of posets and algebras. The event was attended by 103 people, of which 34 were national and international speakers, 23 international students, 42 national students and Colombian professors.

The Emil Artin International Conference dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Emil Artin has taken place in Yerevan, Armenia from 27 May to 2 June, 2018. The conference has been very successful and attracted significant attention from well-known scientists in the field, including mathematicians from the United States, France, Italy, Russia, China, India, Poland, Norway, Iran, Canada, and Brazil. Several key speakers, including Efim Zelmanov, Armen Sergeev, Ivan Shestakov, Yuri Movsisyan, Alexey Parshin, Mikhail Volkov, Jonathan Smith, Daniele Mundici have discussed solutions to open problems in the fields of algebra, geometry, topology, number theory, algebraic geometry, etc.

For the program go here.

For the abstracts go here.

The International Conference 20. Geometrical Seminar was held in Vrnjacka Banja. The organizers of this conference was the Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics University of Nis,the Mathematical Faculty in Belgrade with the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Kragujevac and the Mathematical Institute SANU, as co-organizers. The Geometrical Seminar has brought together 101 participants from 19 countries around the world. The Geometric Seminar was attended by professors, associates and students from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Niš.

The short activity report can be found here.

The International Workshop on Groups & Representations and Related topics (IWGRR) has been successfully held in Chongqing, China. More than 140 people from 7 different countries attended the conference and 52 talks were held during the 4 day program. 

For more information go to the conference website.

For the program go here.

The school took place in the Faculté des Sciences of the University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, from May 7 to May 18, 2018. It gathered about 50 participants:
7 mathematicians from several countries (France, Italy, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, USA) who gave 40 hours of lectures on selected topics as well as exercise sessions, 8 young participants from neighbouring countries (Benin, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Ivory Coast, South Africa), master students or PhD students, in number theory or cryptography, about 40 regular local participants from the University of Kinshasa and other universities in DRC, mathematicians or computer scientists, students or researchers, interested in the topics of this school. The conference succeeded particularly well in gathering people from different mathematical backgrounds with interests in computational aspects of number theory and cryptography. Attendance remained high until the end of the school. Participants took a very active part by asking questions during lectures or solving exercises during tutorial sessions.

For the scientific report go here.