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The focus of this meeting was on reduced order modelling, an extremely wide topic in which the number of deep mathematical results are still largely open, especially in complicated and challenging industrially-oriented applications. With this in mind, the choice of speakers for the meeting aimed at reflecting how wide the area is, and even how the term Reduced order modelling can be interpreted in drastically different ways.
 
As can be seen from the list of speakers, they range from lectures in engineering and applied mathematics (Fossati and Wray), to well-established professors in the topic (Rozza). Somewhat between both ends, G. Li is a mathematician whose interests lie in the interface of reduced order models (in terms of reduced bases) with multiscale finite element methods, with an emphasis on the mathematical justification of the resulting methodologies. As such, the idea of the meeting was to gather an as wide as possible spectrum of speakers, spanning from finite-element experts, to researchers with a speciality in continuum mechanics, to more industrially focused engineers.