TAMU-Q organises international mathematics workshop

Experts and students at the international mathematics workshop in Doha recently.

Leading experts and graduate students from Brazil, Europe, the Gulf region and the United States have gathered in Education City at the international mathematics workshop held from January 4 to 8.Organised by Texas A&M University at Qatar, the event aimed to promote the exchange of ideas and interactions among researchers.Dr Nordine Mir, professor of mathematics at Texas A&M at Qatar, said the workshop was designed to spark mutually beneficial collaborations between mathematicians in the region and colleagues in Europe, Brazil, and the US.“This meeting focused on recent results and developments in the analysis and geometry of several complex variables, CR manifolds and closely related areas, such as the theory of over determined systems of partial differential equations,” he noted. The workshop also helped build exposure for the Qatar research enterprise. “Therefore it will contribute to the Qatar National Research Strategy,” said Dr Mir.A lecture on complex Brunn-Minkowski theory was given by Bo Berndtsson (Chalmers University, Sweden). The conference was organised by Dr S Berhanu at Temple University in the US, Dr Mir and Dr Emil Straube at Texas A&M University at College Station. Besides Texas A&M University at Qatar, some of the sponsors included Texas A&M University, the US National Science Foundation and Qapco.“A conference of this calibre adds substantial further visibility to the science programme at Texas A&M at Qatar and to Qatar as the Middle East research hub,” said Dr Straube, professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University.