The online workshop at BIRS during the COVID19 pandemic lead to me gaining three new collaborators and new ideas for future research. This was at a time when travel to work with collaborators was not even possible. Thank you BIRS!

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While the online workshop could never replace being together in person at BIRS, I was quite happy with the format of the BIRS workshop online. During the week we discussed open problems. I proposed one of my own, and aided by the feedback I received will be preparing it into a NSF grant proposal. I also took part in discussions of other open problems, one of which is now leading to a new paper.

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