Felix Kirschner, an ESR at Tilburg University has just completed his online secondment with CNRS-LAAS from April to June 2021.

Go 60 Conference aims to celebrate Giorgio Ottaviani's 60th birthday by bringing together mathematicians working in both pure and applied algebraic geometry for a week-long meeting in the mountains, featuring talks about the most recent progresses in these fields, and lots of time to interact and discuss about mathematics. Giorgio is the representative at University of Florence (UNIFI) in POEMA project.

Luis Vargas, an early researcher at CWI was recently awarded the Best Poster Award at IPCO 2021, for his poster on his paper on Finite convergence of sum-of-squares hierarchies for the stability number of a graph

MEGA is the acronym for Effective Methods in Algebraic Geometry (and its equivalent in Italian, French, Spanish, German, Russian, etc.). This series of biennial international conferences, with the tradition dating back to 1990, is devoted to computational and application aspects of Algebraic Geometry and related topics, over any characteristics.