A Thematic Session may be:

• Focused: specialized in a research current subject. Its main purpose is the discussion between peers that reflect or could evolve in collaborative research.
• International: with participants from different countries and/or regions showing diverse approaches to a research area.
• Tutorials: with the purpose of communicating the state of the art on a subject to an audience not necessarily familiar to that area.
• Educational: about undergraduate and graduate mathematical education. This may include curricular development and/or assessment, professional development and projects formulated for, or produced by, developing mathematicians.

A Thematic Session or Mini symposium consists of four talks in a two hours period. The organizer will start the session with an overview of the session content. The first 40 minutes talk consists of a panoramic view of the subject by a person of recognized authority by the intended audience. Three 25 minutes sessions will follow with talks on the specialized area. All four periods should allow for at least five minutes of questions and/or discussion.

A proposal for a Thematic Session of Mini-symposium should submit the following information:

• Title: Describe the subject area as accurately and specifically as possible.
• Organizer: Provide complete name, affiliation, postal and electronic address, and telephone number of the organizer.
• Summary: Describe your Thematic Session or Mini symposium in about 300 words as it will appear in the congress program. A text addressed to specialists as well as to researchers from related areas is recommended. The following outline is also suggested:
  • Explain the problem area to be addressed by the speakers and its importance.
  • Identify current directions of research and methods being developed to solve problems, including their advantages and shortcomings.
  • Describe the scope of your mini-symposium.
• Support: List the sponsors that will fund travel, housing and stipends of speakers as they should appear in the program (if applicable).
• Speakers: List the complete names, affiliations, postal and electronic address and talk title for all proposed speakers. Talks abstracts should be provided by SIDIM’s abstract submission deadline. Be sure to mark the appropriate mini-symposium title when submitting the abstracts for the session.

• The organizer of the mini-symposium should take special care in selecting a first speaker who could provide a panoramic view of the subject area, its open problems, and suggest possible new venues for research. Researchers with such capacity and motivations are specially welcomed to submit proposals.
• Mini-symposium organizers are encouraged to reflect diversity and balance in the speakers’ genders and ethnic background and type of institution to which they are affiliated.
• Speakers preferably may not have the same affiliation or be co-authors of the works being presented.
• SIDIM inscription and activities fees are not waived for mini-symposia speakers. The organizer who wish to provide such incentive to participants should provide the corresponding payments to the SIDIM Organizing Committee.

The proponents should send proposals to sidimcp@gmail.com by January 31, 2020. SIDIM’s Technical Committee will evaluate the proposals for thematic sessions and notify organizers of final approval.

For additional information you may contact the SIDIM 2020 Organizing Committee by email sidimcp@gmail.com, or by phone at (787) 850-9386.