 Yo soy el llama. The motivation for the Escuelo Latinoamericana de Matemática aplicada, el llama, arose from my own personal experience. When I decided to study mathematics in Argentina, my family and friends thought that mathematics was a really limiting career choice. Fifteen years later, I feel this could not have been further from reality. In Latin America, the utility and importance of mathematics is not always apparent to the general public. The aim of the school was to showcase the value of mathematics in an effort to begin changing the mentality. With this in mind, we chose Ecuador as the host country and applied mathematics as the topic of our school. Students who were mostly undergraduate and master students came from Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and Colombia with varying backgrounds in biology, computer science, engineering, physics, and mathematics. The school, which lasted two weeks, consisted of theoretical lectures and laboratory sessions where students could practice coding in different languages and running simulations with real data. The courses and lab sessions took place at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. In order to convey the universitariality of mathematics, a diverse range of applications were highlighted in the topics of the courses fluid mechanics, cancer dynamics, control of epidemics, and machine learning. Next, let's meet our instructors. Yes, so I'm Jacob Petrosian. I'm a professor of mathematics at University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. My research is in the mathematical analysis of differential equations, usually those arising in fluid mechanics or plasma physics or similar physical situations as this. So the course I'm teaching here is kind of an introduction to mathematical modeling using differential equations. So I introduce mostly mathematical biology examples, both ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations show a little bit of how to analyze them by hand and also how to simulate them numerically. And then in laboratories they do numerical simulations, they see pictures, and we discuss kind of what the dynamics are. So the emphasis is more on the dynamics than on any particular fine theory point. And I think this is a good place to start learning differential equations, even if you do want to do theory later in life, because you really need to understand the dynamics. And the focus of mathematics and applied math is understanding really the predictions and the limits of the models and what kind of dynamic goals, behavior you can see from models. Hi, my name is Doran Levy and I'm a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. My expertise is in mathematical modeling of biological and medical systems. I am here in Keto to teach a short course on mathematical methods of cancer. We cover a lot of things starting from cancer growth, cancer immunotherapy, cancer evolution, and many other things. Essentially providing tools for everyone to start thinking about how to do research in this area and what kind of questions researchers ask. It has been a great experience, and I hope that everyone likes it. Thank you. Hello, my name is Maria Soledad-Aronna. I'm from Argentina, but I'm a professor in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, in Fundación Jutulia Vargas. So I'm here in Keto, Ecuador, to give a course on optimal control with applications to biology. In particular, I will do some applications to disease control. So, my name is Rafael Coby and I work at the São Paulo State University. I'm a researcher there. I work at the high-energy physics group, which is called São Paulo Research and Analysis Center. We are members of the CMS collaboration at the LMC, and I work during machine learning analysis on mainly particle physics, high-energy particle physics. I'll be giving the course here on Introduction to Machine Learning. So I'm going to talk about the very basic topic of so much in learning. So we're going to discuss the idea behind the AI and what actually is being done right now. And during the lab sessions, I ask the students to play a little bit with machine learning tools on data sets. Most of them, they come from the real world, especially the ones that we use at their data from particle collisions and so their high-energy physics data. And I ask them to do manipulations and maybe try regressions and so on and so forth. In an effort to engage the general public, the lecturers of the courses were also asked to give a series of public lectures at La Escuela Politécnica Nacional, the titles of the lectures were Patterns and Chaos, Vortex Motion and Fluid Mechanics, Mathematical Modeling, the role of the immune response in leukemia, the mathematics of epidemics, machine learning, the industry and the basic science. To close the school, we held a panel discussion for students to ask questions about applying to graduate programs around the world and provide them with information regarding broader career opportunities in mathematics. We hope that the experience was beneficial and that there will be similar activities in the region in the future. Hello, my name is Nicola Zapata. I am from Ecuador and I am a physicist and a mathematician from Universidad San Francisco de Quito, the host university of the school here in Ecuador. I really have a lot of fun in these two weeks and I really enjoy the courses, I learn a lot and the lecturers were really, really good. So for me it was an amazing experience. And also I would really like if you continue to do these type of schools here in Ecuador and in Latin America because in that way we learn of different opportunities for doing our masters and our PhD outside of our countries. Hi, I am Esteban Murillo. I study mathematics at the EPN in Quito. I attended the First Land American School for Applied Mathematics. I really enjoyed the experience. I liked the topics that were taught to us and I met new people who I could collaborate with in the future. In the future I'd like to see more theoretical topics maybe, but I really liked the experience. Hello, my name is Juan Zurita. I am from Quito, Ecuador. I study biotechnology at Uesificu and I am 22 years old. What I really like about the course is the attitude of the teachers because they all had a lot of patience and taught us how to write code. And specifically in Matlab I do not have so much experience and they really helped me out. And I also love the contents, the diversity of the contents. It's really cool to be part of that kind of diverse environment. I would really love to see some mathematical models for the expression, for example in Applications to Synthetic Biology or maybe some mathematical physics. Hi, I am Ivan and I am from Guatemala. We went to the First Latin American School for Applied Mathematics at Quito. We learned new stuff such as light and cancer dynamics and fluid mechanics. We want to thank the ICTP for letting us be part of this amazing experience. And also thanks to Chia, Matias, all the teachers and the rest of the organizers that were involved in this activity for teaching us and letting us be part of this amazing journey.