Since my last blog entry, I was able to attend the first POEMA Workshop which was held in Florence in January. 

The organisers did a great job and all POEMA students were briefed in the very basics of polynomial optimisation, tensor decompositions and computer algebra. 

In addition to the short courses, I have benefited a lot from discussions with other students or researchers. It is definitely interesting to see which problems the other students are trying to answer. Furthermore, it is helpful to see that we also share similar difficulties with administrational things and the work.