1 – 5 September 2025

Totland Youth Hostel, Isle of Wight, UK

Supported by the Heilbronn Institute Small Grants Scheme

The goal is to bring together a group of approximately 25 graduate students to work on a specific topic under the guidance of three senior mathematicians. The majority of the talks will be given by the participants, and there will be time in the afternoons and evenings for further discussions and more informal sessions. The character of the workshop is expository in nature, starting with the basic ideas and leading to a survey of the most recent developments in the field; no prior knowledge of the topic will be assumed. Since both the participants and the mentors will be living in the same building, we hope to create an informal, yet mathematically intensive, atmosphere.

Organisers:

Natasha Diederen (UCL)
Mahdi Haghshenas (Imperial College/UCL)
Yuze Jiang (UCL)
Enric Solé-Farré (UCL/Imperial College)
James Tissot (Imperial College)

Mentors:

Giada Franz (MIT)
Stephen Lynch (King’s College London)
Paul Minter (Princeton)

More information on the Workshop website

Previous Editions

BIGW V: Mathematical General Relativity

BIGW IV: Geometric Flows and Related topics

BIGW IV (cancelled): Calibrated Geometry and Geometric PDEs

BIGW III: Gauge Theory with a View to Higher Dimensions

BIGW II: Singularities and Symplectic Topology

BIGW I: Higgs Bundles: Algebraic and Differential Geometric Perspectives