On December 4th we had the honour of welcoming Juan Ignacio Pérez, Minister of Science, Universities and Innovation of the Basque Government, and Adolfo Morais, President of BCAM and Deputy Minister of Science, Universities and Innovation to BCAM.

It was a fantastic opportunity to share, first hand, all the work we carry out at the centre.

The project “Classical Singularity theory meets positive characteristic methods” by Javier Fernández de Bobadilla (Ikerbasque Research Professor and leader of the Singularities and Algebraic Geometry group at BCAM) and Ilya Smirnov (Ikerbasque Research Fellow and Ramón y Cajal Fellow at BCAM / Singularities and Algebraic Geometry group) has been selected in the 2023 AEI-DFG bilateral Spanish-German research project call. The two researchers will carry out cutting-edge research aimed at addressing fundamental questions in algebraic geometry, focusing on the interaction between zero, positive, and mixed characteristic methods. This ambitious project tackles multiple objectives with the potential to transform the understanding of singularities by bridging seemingly distant methods.
The BCAM researchers will collaborate with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.

This consortium is focused on the development of innovative technologies to ensure the safety of infrastructures associated with green hydrogen. SegurH2 focuses on analysing possible risk scenarios and creating advanced models to simulate and predict potential impacts.

On behalf of BCAM, Tomás Teijeiro (Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow) and Ana Fernández Navamuel (Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow) are participating in this project.

On 18 December, Daniel Eceizabarrena (Marie Curie Fellow, BCAM) and Luca Fanelli (UPV/EHU, BCAM & Ikerbasque) from the WAVE research line gave a talk at Durango BHI secondary school to 61 students from 1. Bachiller. Under the name "¿Qué onda wey?" they explained the behaviour of waves, including both musical waves and light waves. It was an outreach talk full of experiments and discoveries.

Last December 12, a very enriching meeting was held with the center's predoctoral students. In this event, the students themselves, the PhD representatives and several members of the center's staff actively participated.
During the meeting, key aspects that are fundamental for the day-to-day work of the predoctoral students were presented and discussed. Topics such as time management, available resources, and administrative procedures, among others, were addressed. In addition, a significant amount of time was devoted to resolving recurring doubts that students had previously raised.
One of the highlights of the meeting was the discussion space. In this segment, attendees had the opportunity to openly discuss various controversial aspects of predoctoral student life. Topics such as the balance between personal and academic life, postdoctoral job expectations, and the common difficulties they face in their career were discussed. This exchange of ideas and experiences proved to be very valuable, as it allowed the students to feel heard and supported by their peers and the center's staff.

The defence took place at Salón de Grados at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Leioa Campus and online.
Carlo Estadilla has previously done research on the optimal control, modelling, and forecasting of COVID-19. He took his graduate degree in applied mathematics from the University of the Philippines - Diliman, where he studied the optimal control of an HIV/AIDS epidemic model. His general interest is in the optimization of interventions and policies affecting population-level dynamics and behavior. Estadilla works as a PhD student at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) in the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology research line (MTB). His thesis, titled Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions and vaccination using mathematical modeling and cost-effectiveness analysis is under the supervision of Dr. Maíra Aguiar (BCAM & Ikerbasque) and Dr. Javier Mar.

This agreement strengthens their joint commitment to promoting gender equality and encouraging scientific and technological vocations among women.