[cmath] Winter school in pure and applied mathematics

[olga at math.mcgill.ca]

Winter school in pure and applied math

We are collecting
applications from Canadian and US last year undergraduate and
master's students to participate in the Winter 2010 school in Pure and
Applied Mathematics to be held January 8-10 at McGill University
(Montreal, Canada). Attending the school can be a very motivating
and exciting experience for a student. We will pay your travel and arrange
accommodation. The application should be submitted by e-mail and should
include the following:

Non-official transcript, Academic statement. (Applicants should
submit a statement of no more than one page outlining their general
academic interests). It would help if you submit one letter of
recommendation from some of your professors (in a sealed and signed
envelope or sent by e-mail). In addition we will have a poster
project competition. The aim of this weekend winter school is to
familiarize last year students with trends in modern mathematics and with
research at McGill and in Montreal. The following McGill
mathematics professors have agreed to give one-hour lectures.

Louigi Addario-Berry: Probabilistic Combinatorics
Henri Darmon: TBA
(Number theory)
Eyal Goren: "Equations over finite fields,
24-dimensional lattices, and rovers on Mars"
Tony Humphries:
"Lattices, Travelling Waves, and Differential equations with
retarded and advanced arguments"
Dmitry Jakobson: "Spectral theory,
geometry and dynamical systems."
Vojkan Jaksic: "Modern Mathematical Physics"
Olga Kharlampovich: "Geometric and asymptotic group theory"
Alexei Miasnikov: "Group Theory, complexity, probability,
cryptography"
Gantamur Tsogtgerel: TBA
Adrian Vetta: "Game theory"

Graduate students from Montreal are welcome to participate (and to present
posters).

Participants will arrive Thursday, Jan 7 or Friday Jan 8(rooms will be
booked by the organizers for each funded participant). The
workshop will begin Friday at 1 p.m. We will have two lectures on
Friday, then go to the Colloquium at UQAM (or run the colloquium at McGill
with one of our professors speaking). Then we all will go to Saint Sauveur
(a nice ski place on the North of Montreal) and
continue lectures (5 lectures on Saturday and 2 on Sunday) there.
The school will terminate Sunday, Jan 10 at noon.

Submit your application to Olga Kharlampovich (Graduate Program
Director, Dept. Math and Stats, McGill University) to
olga at math.mcgill.ca and Svetla Vassileva (PhD student at McGill who is
organizing the school) svassileva at math.mcgill.ca

Deadline December 1, 2009