The collective and the interdisciplinary are main axes that govern my life since I was just a youngster. These phenomena naturally occur when one is engaged in applied mathematics, which is the best game that mankind has achieved.

I like to say that I am American as I was born in Central America and very soon, I came to Mexico where I learned about life and death. Finally, I got my academic and social education in the course of ten years living in South America, when I belong to the "Cidade Maravilhosa", Rio de Janeiro. Now, I have come back to North America at the ITAM.

Jorge Rivera Noriega obtained the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. As a fellow of the CONACYT-Fulbright-García Robles program he pursued the doctoral studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and upon obtaining the Ph. D. degree under supervision of Prof. Steve Hofmann, he took a three-year position as J. L. Doob Posdoctoral Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Rubén A. Martínez-Avendaño has an undergraduate degree from the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, Mexico and his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Toronto, Canada. He held a postdoctoral position at Michigan State University, U.S.A. Upon returning to Mexico, he joined the Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo and since August of 2018 he is a full profesor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.

Carlos Bosch Giral studied Mathematics as an undergraduate at the National Autonomous University (UNAM) in Mexico City. He then went on to obtain a D.E.A (Diplome d’études approfondis) and PH.D. (Doctorat de 3éme cycle) in Mathematics  at the Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I in France.