Jimmy Petean 

Jimmy obtained his PhD in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1997 under the supervision of Claude LeBrun. His doctoral research focused on applications of Seiberg–Witten theory to the classification of indefinite Kähler–Einstein complex surfaces. He subsequently held a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. Since 1998, he has been a researcher at the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT), where his work centers on differential geometry and geometric analysis.

Karla García 

Karla earned her undergraduate degree in Mathematics and her master’s degree in Mathematical Sciences at UNAM-CU. She later completed her PhD at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and held a postdoctoral position supported by DGAPA-UNAM. She is currently a full-time professor at FES Acatlán, UNAM.

Padi Fuster Aguilera 

Padi is an NSF MPS Ascend postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research interests are Partial Differential Equations and Riemannian Geometry.

Padi is passionate about making mathematics a more community-based and inclusive discipline. She co-founded the conference “Math For All” with the main goal of creating a welcoming environment for learning and discussing mathematics, and she also co-founded “Meet a Mathematician”— a collection of video interviews to mathematicians from historically excluded backgrounds. When not doing mathematics, Padi enjoys playing electric guitar and screen printing. 

Raquel Perales 

Raquel earned her PhD in Mathematics from Stony Brook University in 2015. For seven years, she served as a Researcher for Mexico at the Instituto de Matemáticas, Unidad Oaxaca, UNAM. Since January 2024, she has been part of the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas. She has also participated as principal investigator of the Austrian emerging project A New Geometry for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity & Beyond.

Victoria Pelayo Alvaredo 

Victoria is a 3rd year PhD student at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Riemannian geometry, metric geometry, and high-dimensional convex geometry. She is particularly interested in concentration of measure phenomena, and the role of symmetry in geometric problems. 

Sean McCurdy 

Sean McCurdy grew up in California, USA. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he studied Philosophy and Mathematics.

After spending some time working as a farmer in Japan, he began his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in Seattle under the supervision of Dr. Tatiana Toro. His doctoral research focused on problems in geometry from the perspective of Geometric Measure Theory, as well as on free boundary problems and unique continuation for elliptic partial differential equations.

He subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Dr. Irene Fonseca and Dr. Giovanni Leoni. During this period, he worked on the analytic Traveling Salesman Problem while continuing his research on free boundary problems and the Stokes problem.

He later moved to Taiwan for a second postdoctoral appointment, where he worked with Dr. Ulrich Menne on regularity problems in Geometric Measure Theory.

In 2024, he joined the Institute of Mathematics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His current research focuses on measure-theoretic aspects of symmetrization and isoperimetric problems.