Some weeks ago I bought a wonderful book called “Testimonios” published by the American Mathematical Society in which the stories of some Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians in the U.S. are featured. Now that I am in the thanksgiving break I finally have had the time to read it and it…

One of the things that has always allured me about studying abroad is the immense cultural interaction that you are likely to experience in a foreign country. The panorama is even more interesting in a country like the United States where an important sector of the university population is made…

March 13, 2021. That was the day I received the notice that would push me out of the nest. After a long process of consecutive failures that embraces rejections from universities in Chech Republic, Norway and the U.S. I finally got accepted to pursue PhD studies in mathematics at the…

On Wednesday June 2 / 2021, I was scheduled for an important interview in the embassy of the U.S. in Bogotá as a mandatory requirement for the expenditure of a student visa. The process had been long and due to the pandemic, the U.S. embassy had reduced considerably the number…

Within the framework of the “Gran Paro Nacional ‘’ in Colombia and the protests that have been going on for more than 18 days in the country, thousands of people have gone out to the streets to raise their voices against the tyranny. In spite of the violence and repression…

“ In the night, after the curfew, they broke down the doors with rifle butts, they took out the suspects of their beds and carried them on a journey of no return. It was still the seek and extermination of the evildoers, murderers, arsonists and rebellious of Decree Number Four…

It was a freezing afternoon of March of 2020 (March 10 of 2020 more precisely). By that time, I was taking the course “Differential Geometry” given by Professor José Francisco Caicedo, known as “Profe Pacho” by the mathematical community in Colombia. I had two weekly classes on Tuesday and Thursday…

In December 17–18 of 2020, within the framework of the “XIV JORNADA DE MATEMÁTICAS” of the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Professor Federico Ardila gave a delightful and thought provoking talk titled “Geometría, Robots y Sociedad”. Besides presenting a handful of really interesting results of the research of his…

When I was finishing my undergraduate studies at the Universidad Distrital (UD) by 2017 an atmosphere of uncertainty was damping my days. I had already decided that I wanted to go over postgraduate studies but I looked to the future with trepidation. I had made up my mind to study…