Due to the coronavirus epidemic, many universities are implementing their seminar talks through online video conferences. One may see this as a new positive opportunity to feel more unite than before.

Some researchers from the USA, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Finland thought it would be helpful to gather the community of mathematicians interested in sub-Riemannian geometry and related topics around an international seminar; it has been decided to launch a seminar called the `international sub-Riemannian seminar', ISRS.

Sub-Riemannian spaces are the main connection. However, the scope of ISRS is broader and devoted to:

Initially, we aggregate every two weeks (when the epidemic is over we may decide to keep it as it is or to meet less often). The proposal for the meeting times is on Fridays, in the evenings for Europe and the morning for America, see below.

The times are as follows:

• California 8am

• Illinois 10am

• New York 11am

• England 4pm

• France, Switzerland, and Italy 5pm (17:00)

• Finland 6pm (18:00)