Project of Scientific Cooperation Belgium-Brazil.
It is our pleasure to announce that the Ghent Analysis and PDE Center has been awarded one of the Global Minds Fund (GMF) International Grants for 2025, funded by the Research Department at Ghent University. This initiative aims to address global challenges through innovative research and dynamic collaboration. We recall that is our second successful global minds cooperation project (visit the website of our Global Minds Project 2025 here!).
Since 2017, the Federal Government allocates funds, through the office of VLIR-UOS, to the Global Minds Fund (GMF) of Ghent University. GMF operates as driver of change for sustainable development, by producing and valorising relevant knowledge and expertise through mutually beneficial partnerships.
The idea is to cooperate with several key figures of Brazilian mathematicians on a project leading to educational advancement in Brazil. This project will be valuable to pass to younger generations a significant perspective in the field of partial differential equations and control theory through the leading Brazilian partners of the project.
The project is promoted by Prof. Dr. Michael Ruzhansky (PI) and co-promoted by our FWO Postdoctoral Researchers (Co-PIs) Dr. Duvan Cardona and Dr. Marianna Chatzakou. As part of our strategic alliances we will cooperate with ICMAM Latin America (International Community of Mathematicians from Latin America) in the organisation of several virtual conferences related to this project.
About the Project
Project Title: Global Minds in PDE and Control Theory
Value of the grant: €10,000
Promotor:
Prof. Dr. Michael Ruzhansky (PI), Ghent University.
Co-promotors:
Dr. Duvan Cardona (Co-PI), Ghent University
Dr. Marianna Chatzakou (Co-PI), Ghent University
Global South partners:
Prof. Dr. Jaqueline Godoy Mesquita (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
Prof. Dr. Paulo L. Dattori da Silva (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Kirilov (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil)
Prof. Dr. Marcelo R. Ebert (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
ICMAM Latin America (International Community of Mathematicians from Latin America)
Tentative plan of activities:
- Virtual Activities (in Brazil and in El Salvador):
14th-18th July 2025: ICMAM Satellite Conference in Analysis and
PDE for Central America and the Caribbean,
hosted at the University of El Salvador,
organised jointly with our group at UGent.
25th-26 September 2025: ICMAM Satellite Conference in Differential Geometry 2025
Organisers: Brian Grajales and Julieth Saavedra. Hosted by the Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil.
20th-24th October 2025: ICMAM Central America and the Caribbean,
hosted at the University of El Salvador, organised jointly with our group at UGent.
The goal of these conferences is the integration of Brazilian Mathematicians with the Central American Mathematical Community with the scientific cooperation of the Ghent Analysis and PDE Center, the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC) and ICMAM Latin America
(International Community of Mathematicians from Latin America). The organisation of these
conferences will be supervised by the co-promotor Dr. Duván Cardona. - Editorial Project: These two conferences will receive scientific contributions from outstanding participants and speakers collected in the book:
Analysis and PDE in Latin America 2025, Global Minds – ICMAM 2025,
and will be submitted to the Book Series of the Ghent Analysis and PDE Center: Research Perspectives Ghent Analysis and PDE Center, Springer-Birkhäuser. - In-person Workshop. From April 27th to 30th 2026 (tentative schedule), the workshop:
Global Minds in Partial Differential Equations and Control Theory
will take place in person at Ghent University at the facilities of the Ghent Analysis and PDE Center.
Visit also the website of our previous project of cooperation Belgium-Colombia: Global Minds in Pseudo-Differential Analysis 2025
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