Open problem session

Our conference will feature an Open Problem Session in which interested participants may share and discuss open problems with other participants. The problem posers will have to create a short pdf document introducing their problem containing the following information:

  1. Introduce the problem in less than 2 pages. You should either define all non-standard terms that you use or provide references to these. If possible, provide some motivation for the problem.
     
  2. Clearly state at the start of your problem the mathematical area to which this problem belongs. This will help us with scheduling and will also help the other participants in selecting problems they might be interested in. Using MSC classification is highly recommended.
     
  3. Clearly state the prerequisites required for the problem at the end of the document.
     
  4. If possible, provide some trivial exercises so that other participants may get start getting a feel for the kind of problem that you are suggesting.
     
  5. You should provide your name and email address on this document.
     

You will be asked if you are interested in submitting a problem during registration. Shortly before the conference, the organisers will get in touch with you to ask for your problem document.

We shall upload all the problems to our website on a secret link and make the link available to all participants just before the conference. This should provide some time to all the participants to look through the list of problems posed and possibly start thinking about some of them. We encourage all participants to discuss these problems during the conference. We intend to have a discussion area available to the participants for discussing any math that they may want to.

Apart from this, we shall also have a session dedicated to discussing open problems. This session will start with, the problem posers presenting their problems in a short presentation of less than 3 minutes. After the presentations, the participants may divide themselves into separate problem groups and discuss the problems. A participant may choose to participate in multiple groups during this session.

At the end of the session, we will ask the interested participants to sign up for problem discussion groups so that the discussion can continue even after the conference has ended as well. We would recommend all the problem posers to organise at least one meeting (virtual or in-person) with those who signed up for their problem to meet and discuss the problem.

Note that we may have to organise this session simultaneously in separate venues depending on the participation. In this case, we shall keep allot problems from similar problem areas to the same rooms.

A few months after the conference, one of the organisers will contact the problem posers to ask the status of the problem and feedback.

We hope that some of the problems will lead to successful collaborations and lifelong friendship.