The Annual International Conference of the Georgian Mathematical Union was established in 2010 and has been held traditionally at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. Batumi is the city of Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara. It is located along the coast of the Black Sea in the southwest region of Georgia. In accordance with recent developments, the conference has been conducted in a hybrid format since 2021. The purpose of the conference is to bring together mathematicians from various fields to present their original research results and provide opportunities to establish new connections within the fields of pure and applied mathematics, as well as science, engineering, and technology. The conference also provides valuable networking opportunities for you to meet great personnel in these fields.

The conference sections: Algebra and Number Theory; Differential and Integral Equations, and Their Applications; Geometry and Topology; Logic, Language, Artificial Intelligence; Mathematical Education and History of Mathematics; Mathematical Logic and Discrete Mathematics; Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis; Theoretical Physics; Probability Theory and Statistics, Financial Mathematics; Real and Complex Analysis.

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The application deadline for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2026 is Feb 11, 2026. See https://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/ for details.

The HLF offers a rare opportunity for students, PhD candidates, and postdocs in mathematics and computer science to spend a week interacting with Abel Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Prize, ACM Prize in Computing, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize laureates, as well as with other outstanding international early-career mathematicians and computer scientists from around the world, and a variety of distinguished guests. The program includes lectures, workshops, panel discussions, networking events, and more. All local expenses (hotel and meals) are covered and an option to apply for travel funding exists if needed.

Participating in an HLF is a wonderful opportunity in many ways.

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This workshop is sponsored by AIM, NSF, and the Simons Foundation. This activity, which is a part of the New Structures in Low-dimensional topology collaboration, will be devoted to developing an approach to q-series invariants of 3-manifolds and knots via 2-representation theory. Verma modules play a key role in the construction of an analogue for a generic parameter q of the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants. The workshop will consider the categorification of Verma modules constructed by Naisse-Vaz, their duals and tensor products, as well as braidings and traces. The goal is to apply these constructions to 3-dimensional topology and relate them to known invariants.

Main topics for the workshop are:

• determination of tensor products of 2-Verma modules, braidings and traces
• relation with the Dupont-Naisse construction
• extension to the case of tensor products of 2-Verma modules and their duals
• construction of homological invariants of particular knots and 3-manifolds