The West Asia mathematical Schools (WAMS) organized the event “Optimization with Industrial Applications” from the 19. December until the 29. December 2018 in Erbil, Iraq. Optimal control is concerned with control laws which maximize a specified measure of adynamical system's performance. The course was a rigorous introduction to the classical theory of optimal control. The topics covered in this course included: optimization, the calculus of variations, Pontryagin's principle, dynamic programming, linear quadratic optimal control, delay differential equation and shape optimization.

The conference took place in Fortaleza - Ceará - Brazil, from 23 to 27 July 2018. The scientific program
had an excellent level with 33 plenary lectures (40 minutes each) and a poster session where 11 colleagues presented their work. The lectures brought new developments on the area of partial differential equations distributed among the following themes:

The International School-Conference “Sobolev Readings” was held from December 10 to December 16 in Novosibirsk. It continued a series of conferences dedicated to Sergei L’vovich Sobolev (1908-1989), the outstanding scientist of the 20th century, one of the founders of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk State University and Institute of Mathematics, which bears his name now. This year the school-conference was dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the birthday of S.L. Sobolev.

The 11th ICMMEDC is a stage of gathering Mathematicians of developed and developing countries to present their research on Mathematics, promote the collaboration of Mathematical side among ASEAN countries and others. This conference is the 11th, the first five times were organized in Cambodia and the last five times were held in Myanmar.

The aim of the conference was:

As part of its policy of training young mathematicians and in order to bring the basic sciences closer to the realities of development, the Mathematics Department of the University of Lomé and the International Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics (CIMPA) organized September 3 to 14, 2018 at the University of Lome, a Research School on the theme: "Lifetime Statistics and Spatial Statistics: Applications to therapeutic trials, industrial reliability, epidemiology and climate change".

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.

This CIMPA School on control, inverse problems and geometry was held in Hammamet and featured 7 courses and seven lectures. The courses presented an opportunity for training in various fields like control and stabilization, inverse problems, Carleman inequalities, micro-local analysis and geometry. The different lectures were given in connections with these subjects.

For the short scientific report go here.

The 7th International Conference for Harmonic Analysis and Approximations (HAA, VII) was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Alexandr Talalyan and held in Tsaghkadzor.