The CIMPA School on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra was held at Department of Mathematics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology(CIIT), Lahore Campus. A total of 78 researchers have participated in the event. In each morning session there used to be three lectures of one hour each while evening sessions were dedicated to tutorials and short presentations by the participants. Ten students have presented their research while many students had actively participated in the tutorial sessions.

The aim of the school was to give students and young researchers from the Central African subregion a training in algebraic topology and geometry, on topics that are the subject of current research. The Cameroonian participants came from different universities (Yaounde, but also Dschang, Maroua ...), foreign participants came mainly from the Republic of Congo. The courses focused on the foundations of algebraic topology, configuration spaces, opera theory, homology and cohomology, pre-algebra and information geometry.

The International Conference on Algebra, Discrete Mathematics and Applications was organized in the Department of Mathematics, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad. About 150 people, including resource persons from India, USA, France, Italy and delegates from all over India were present or this conference.

The report can be found here.

The conference consisted on five mini-courses directed at PhD students and faculty, six plenary talks and sixteen shorter talks. It was attended by sixty participants from fifteen different countries.The meeting was organized by the Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da Universidade de São Paulo (IME-USP), the Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Matemática (INCT-MAT) and the Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA).

The aim of the CIMPA school has been to provide a stimulating intellectual environment for researchers from Vietnam and neighborhood countries to interact.