Description
The sixth installment of the British Isles Graduate Workshop will focus on minimal surfaces. It will be held in the isle of Wight, from the 1st to the 5th of September 2025. It is targeted at PhD students and postdocs but open for application from all. The goal is for junior researchers to work together with three experienced mentors for a week. The format of the workshop is that three mentors propose three topics, split into six talks each. Participants sign up to give the talks. The atmosphere during the workshop is supportive, encouraging, and collaborative.
The meeting is held in-person only (no online option), and we aim to have around 30 participants. We will cover for accommodation and full board at the Isle of Wight - Totland Youth Hostel for all participants from Sunday afternoon to Saturday morning. Participants are expected to pay a 120 GBP registration fee as a contribution to the accomodation and sustenance expenses.
Limited travel funding might be available. If you require travel funding, please let us know during the application.
Topics
The topics for the workshop will be published later on.
Mentors
The mentors for BIGW VI are
Poster
You can download the poster: here.
Applications
To apply please fill in the form by the 30th of April.
Organisers
The organisers of BIGW VI are:
- Natasha Diederen, University College London
- Mahdi Haghshenas*, Imperial College London - University College London
- Yuze Jiang, University College London
- Enric Solé-Farré, University College London - Imperial College London
- James Tissot, Imperial College London
Previous editions
- BIGW V: Mathematical General Relativity (archive version)
- BIGW IV: Geometric flows and related topics (archive version)
- BIGW IV (cancelled): Calibrated Geometry and Geometric PDEs (archive version)
- BIGW III: Gauge Theory with a View to Higher Dimensions (archive version)
- BIGW II: Singularities and Symplectic Topology (archive version)
- BIGW I: Higgs bundles: algebraic and differential geometric perspectives
Sponsors
We gratefully acknowledge funding from the following institutions:- London School of Geometry and Number Theory
- Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research
