Plenary Speakers
- Ángel González Prieto (UCM-ICMAT)
- Makrina Agaoglou (UPM)
- Pablo Candela (UAM-ICMAT)
- Vanesa Guerrero (UC3M)
Ángel González Prieto
Ángel González Prieto is an Assistant Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research lies at the interface between complex geometry, algebraic geometry, and theoretical physics, with a special focus on character varieties, Hodge theory, Geometric Invariant Theory and Topological Quantum Field Theories (in their lax and extended versions). He also studies theoretical aspects of machine learning and data science, particularly recommender systems, generative adversarial networks (GANs), and dimensionality reduction through manifold learning. He is a member of the Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Vice Dean of International and Institutional Affairs at the School of Mathematics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 2021, he received the Vicent Caselles Award, granted by the Real Sociedad Matemática Española and BBVA Foundation.
Makrina Agaoglou
Makrina Agaoglou is a researcher in applied mathematics, and more specifically in dynamical systems. Her research mainly focuses on applications of dynamical systems in physics, chemical reaction dynamics (from the mathematical point of view) and geosciences.
Coming from Greece, she is currently an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. She has a wide international experience, having held positions in Spain, Greece, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She has received several national and international research fundings, including a Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Grant from the Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, as well as funding from the European Union. She is also an Early Career Editor for the journal Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, renowned for its rich tradition and significant contributions in the field.
Pablo Candela
Pablo Candela is a Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and a member of the Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, directed by Timothy Gowers, and he has a broad international experience, including long-term research stays at the University of Cambridge, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, and the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest. He has been a speaker at a number of international conferences, and has participated in several projects funded by prestigious organizations, including an ERC grant. His research interests comprise analysis and combinatorics, especially combinatorial applications of harmonic analysis. In recent years his work has focused on a new theory in these areas, known as higher-order Fourier analysis.
Vanesa Guerrero
Vanesa Guerrero is a Juan de la Cierva - Incorporación postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Statistics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She obtained her PhD in Mathematics from Universidad de Sevilla in 2017. She has completed research stays at the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and the École Polytechnique (France). Vanesa has received the Vicent Caselles Award (granted by the Real Sociedad Matemática Española and BBVA Foundation) and the Ramiro Melendreras Award (given by the Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa) both in 2018. Her research interests focus on the development of mathematical optimization models that help in data-driven decision making and in improving their interpretability.