Participant Testimonials
... the BIRS meeting was wonderfully productive. I presented late in the meeting and I added four slides to my talk inspired by the overall themes covered and the common framework that I saw emerging. Today I gave a lecture in my graduate course on inverse problems that was essentially just an expanded version of those four slides.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
... This was one of the best meetings I have been to in a long time. The combination of facilities, location, organization, and warm hospitality is essentially unparalleled in my experience. Moreover, my research program benefited directly from information exchanged with other participants and we will actively pursue a number of new approaches as a result. Many thanks for sponsoring and facilitating such a productive and stimulating workshop.
The BIRS meeting last week was one of the best meetings I have ever attended both in terms of scientific quality and organisation. It helped me to focus my research program and enabled me to tie contacts with scientists from other fields interested in similar problems. In short, the meeting was exemplary in all respects. Many thanks to the organizers!
... I was very impressed by the impeccable organization and the excellent facilities at the Banff Center. Most importantly, the meeting gave me both the opportunity to expose my work to new audiences (mathematicians and biologists) with whom I normally have limited interaction, and to learn a lot from them.
I think that workshop was particularly successful. It brought together two very different groups of people and speakers really made an effort to make their work intelligible to the "other" community. I learned a lot from my stay at BIRS.
... as a biologist I found the workshop inspiring and have formed a collaboration with a mathematician on the spot there. I will keep you posted on our research progresses. I thank the organizers for doing a fabulous job of bringing different people together and for including me.
LMB, NIDDK, National Institute for Health
