I have the great pleasure of co-organizing the Ioannina Winter School together with my dear friends Athanasios Chatzikaleas (University of Athens, Greece) and Konstantinos Zemas (University of Bonn, Germany). The school is an annual event that brings together students and researchers from across Greece to meet in Ioannina and explore exciting topics in Geometric Analysis and General Relativity.
At the school, we offer mini-courses designed to provide students and participants with in-depth introductions to cutting-edge results in the field. However, the program is not just about lectures: these mini-courses on campus are mainly there to kick off the discussions. A big part of the experience happens outside the classroom (by the lake in Ioannina or on walks through the nearby villages of Zagorochoria) where we continue our mathematical conversations in a more informal setting.