Workshop participant feedback
“I think it was quite unique in that it had both diversity and focus. There were basically three mini-workshops, on calculus of variations, harmonic analysis and dispersive equations, all bundled together. This allowed for non-standard interactions between mathematicians that would not normally interact. I am convinced that this will lead to several interesting collaborations.”
“It was a very good initiative that, I think, served the purpose of initiating the idea and discussion about developing collaborations between the two groups.”
“I was impressed by some of the talks of the younger researchers (of course also by those of the more senior researchers but maybe that is more expected). Younger people managed to give a lot of insight and content during their rather short talks.”
“Many of the talks were outstanding, and the atmosphere was very friendly and congenial.”
The aim of this meeting was to develop meaningful interactions between two important European research centres in analysis; the Maxwell Institute in Edinburgh and the Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bilbao.
We organised the programme around three themes which are seeing a recent surge of exciting activity and which cover the core interest of the communities of both nodes:
- harmonic analysis;
- analysis of dispersive PDEs;
- variational techniques.
Both these centres include academics at all careers stages, including a critical mass of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. The programme included talks from members of the two centres at all career stages, including PhD students, complemented by a substantial amount of time devoted to discussion of research directions, to open problems, and to work in groups.
