Jean-Bernard Bru is a (Ikerbasque) Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1999 at the center of theoretical physics of Aix-Marseille University, France. The bulk of his research covers a scope from the mathematical analysis of many-body problems to operator algebras, stochastic processes, evolution equations, convex and functional analysis, to name a few.
Walter Alberto de Siqueira Pedra is a full professor at the Mathematics Department of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and an external scientific member of the BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (Bilbao). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2006 at the University of Leipzig with summa cum laude distinction, having done graduate studies in mathematical physics at the Mathematics Department of the ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for
