Friday, 2 December 2016 Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon: "UP is a young University full of ambitions and potentials!"

On 1 December, a very special guest has visited the University of Primorska. We had the honour to host the president of the European Research Council, Acad. prof. dr. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon. The visit was organized in collaboration with the Slovenian Business and Research Association in Brussels.

Prof. Bourguignon has joined the meeting of the 8 EMC organizing committee, and after a fruitful meeting with the rector of UP prof. Dragan Marušič, he delivered a fascinating lecture titled "Modern geometry - from local to global, from smooth to rough, from static to dynamic."

The lecture was recorded and is available for viewing here.

Before his departure, prof. Bourguignon has shared with the press his impressions about the University of Primorska. He specially admires our dynamic research team which recently has been very successful. This ambitious group of researchers will not only organize the next European Congress of Mathematics in 2020 but they just obtained the European Commission grant for the establishment of the InnoRenew CoE. All this clearly shows the potential of the University which has been cooperating with many different (also business) institutions.

(Foto: meeting of the 8 ECM organizing committee, meeting with the rector, lecture. Credits: Alen Ježovnik)