The "International conference on Class Groups of Number Fields and related topics" was held in Allahabad, India during the period 16-19 October, 2019. The conference covered a wide range of topics related to algebraic number fields, which is an active area of research in number theory. A number of internationally renowned experts from these areas where hosted, who shared their research and expertise to the researchers from India and other neighboring countries like Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

The CIMPA School on Finsler Geometry and Applications was held at the Baharas Hindu University, India, during the period 5-15 December, 2019. There were seven coordinated courses related to current research on Finsler Geometry. These courses were taught by renowned experts of the field.

The CNMAC was held at the Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, during 16-20 September, 2019. The CNMAC is an annual congress organized by the Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics (SBMAC), being the largest meeting about applied, computational and industrial mathematics in Brazil and in Latin America. The SBMAC has as its main purpose to promote the development and dissemination of computational and applied mathematics in Brazil.

Thanks to a generous donation by the winners of the Breakthrough Prizes in Mathematics, IMU with the assistance of FIMU (www.friends-imu.org) is opening a new call of the IMU Breakout Graduate Fellowship program to support postgraduate studies, in a developing country.

NEW CALL OF THE BREAKOUT GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM OF THE IMU COMMISSION FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES:

The 12th International Conference on Mathematics and Mathematics Education in Developing Countries (ICMMEDC 2019) was held at the at National University of Laos (NUOL), Dongdok Campus, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, during the period 1 - 3 November, 2019.

The CIMPA Research School: Syzygies, from Theory to Applications was held in Brazil during the period 4-13 November, 2019. During the research CIMPA Research School graduate students and young researchers had the opportunity to study some fundamental techniques and recent developments on syzygy based methods, including:
• applications to combinatorial and toric geometry,
• module of differentials,
• the Minimal Resolution Conjecture,
• regularity of powers of ideals,

The WAMS-Mathematics and their Interactions was held at the Nesin Mathematics Village in Izmir, Turkey during the period 27 October-3 November, 2019. The objective of this school was to offer a fairly complete offer of courses in the modeling field, ranging from theoretical approaches to concrete developments (modeling and numerical simulations).

The CIMPA Research School "Approches algorithmiques et statistiques de l'apprentissage" was held at University of Antananarivo in Madagascar during the period 16-25 July, 2019. The aim of this CIMPA School was to familiarize graduate students and young researchers with the field of Machine Learning and to show its many connections to other areas, especially mathematics, computer science, probability and economics.

This October, the IMU Executive Committee endorsed the proposal made by the Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) regarding the definition of Developing Countries to be used by IMU during the next 4-year period.