The special lectures will last 45 minutes and will be given by leading female figures in world mathematics. The following speakers have been selected by the scientific committee and are confirmed:

Ragni Piene (University of Oslo, Norway)
Counting problems and generating functions

Valeria de Paiva (Samsung Research America, USA and University of Birmingham, UK)
From Pure Algebra to Applied Category Theory: a personal journey
Yoshiko Wakabayashi (USP, Brazil)