The CIMPA research school “ Elliptic curves: Arithmetic and Computation " was organized by CIMPA in conjunction with the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay. It was held at the Universidad de la República, Montevideo, from the 11th to the 22th of Febraury 2019. The scientific program of the school was very interconnected as one of the main goals of the school was to developed the theory of elliptic curves from its very beginning to the level needed to understand and appreciate the Birch and Swinnerton Dyer conjecture.

The School and Workshop had 38 participants. Junior participants stayed for both the school and workshop. The school consisted of introductory lectures and problem sessions regarding algebraic geometry. The workshop consisted mostly of research level talks as well as a round table style discussion. 

Organizers of the pre-workshop school 

The EMALCA – Venezuela 2018 took place in the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) from the 2nd September until the 7th September 2018 in Mérida, Venezuela. A total of 42 participants were registered: 28 undergraduate students, 10 graduate students, 2 postdoctoral fellows and 2 mathematics teachers from national universities, almost all from different cities of the country. The three scheduled courses were carried out as planned.

The Colloquium on Algebras and Representations Quantum 60 was held in the Casa Serrana Hotel, Huerta Grande, Córdoba from the 10. December until the 14. December 2018 in Córdoba, Argentinia. The meeting was in honour of Prof.

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.

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

The grants are addressed to students from developing countries that plan to complete a doctoral degree in mathematical sciences in a developing country. The 2019 call was open from February 11 to May 31 (9:00 am CET).

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: