Winding up

The two weeks at Bangalore provided quite a stimulating and exciting diet: elegant theorems, deep inequalities, wonderful results. Pity all the more that the follow up has once again left much wanting: no notes have been assembled (with one honourable exception - the TIFR group's fine collection on entropy [1]), no serious collaborations were initiated and no follow-up study seems to have been undertaken in the aftermath. It was once again a case of too many other things overtaking our lives. How can we set that right the next time?

Talking of next time, we feel that this series of workshops should be continued apace. Plenty of topics remain to be explored fully (some form this workshop, others conspicuous left-outs like Markov chain techniques) and this is, we have to repeat yet again, the best opportunity for Indian researchers to gather together and discuss the frontiers of research.