About Workshop

The deadline to apply to attend has now passed. The scientific organisers are now reviewing all applications and the aim is to notify applicants of decisions by the end of November 2025.

Workshop participants will participate in one of three types of working groups during the week.

  1. Traditional groups: There will be two research groups in the by-now-traditional WICA format (as in WICA I – BIRS, WICA II – CIRM and WICA III – CMO Oaxaca), each with group leaders who have been recruited in advance of this announcement by workshop organizers.
  2. Proposed research groups: There will be three research groups whose group leaders are selected from among those who propose a research problem via the link above.  Proposals may be made by a single mathematician or by a team of two.  Proposers need not be senior mathematicians. They are expected to take the lead in getting the group started on the proposed problem during the workshop. However, because proposers will not necessarily be more senior than other group members, there is less of an expectation that they will serve as mentors within the group if the group chooses to continue the project beyond the week of the workshop.  Because (parts of) these problem proposals will be posted publicly, we understand that people may wish to keep the statements of their problems somewhat vague. The most important information is the general topic of the problem and the background that would be required for someone to work on it.
  3. Research dialogue groups: There will be two groups, each with four to six participants, who will work together to learn background material on topics on which they are not yet experts. The goals in these groups will be to build working relationships and lay the foundation for future research collaborations. There is no expectation that these groups will continue beyond the week of the workshop itself.

Funding is available and from a gift from Jane Street Capital to cover participants’ local expenses.  We are in the process of seeking sources of funding to defray the costs of participant travel; there is no guarantee that such funding will be obtainable.  Additionally, there will be a 150.00 GBP registration fee.

If you have questions about the workshop or about proposal topics, please email the workshop organisers.