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Résumé: The RIPS Program offers high-achieving undergraduate students the opportunity to work in teams on a real-world research project proposed by a sponsor from industry or a national lab. The students receive direction from a faculty mentor, who is in-residence at IPAM, and an industry mentor, who provides regular contact between the team and the sponsor. Ultimately, RIPS provides valuable real-world technical and managerial experience for students as well as valuable R&D for sponsors.

Résumé: Designed for graduate students and postdocs, the program will focus on recent progress in the theory of evolution equations. Such equations lie at the heart of many areas of mathematical physics. All turn out to be susceptible to analysis by a remarkably unified set of techniques. The first three weeks of the school will consist of three parallel courses introducing these techniques together with some applications. The fourth week will consist of mini-courses focusing on more advanced topics.

Résumé: Analytic number theory and Diophantine approximation are important and closely connected areas of number theory. The two topics have roots that are as old as mathematics, the first one being motivated initially by the study of prime numbers, while the second concerns the nature of numbers. In the last ten years there have been several striking developments in both fields (for example, Green and Tao's proof of arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions of primes and the work of Rivoal and others on zeta values at odd integers). This summer school will be an occasion for graduate students and young researchers to learn some of the latest developments in these rapidly developing fields and eventually contribute to them.

Résumé: Three courses will be given: R. Kenyon, Dimers and random surfaces; V. Koltchinskii, Oracle inequalities in empirical risk minimization and sparse recovery problems; Y. Le Jan, Markovian paths, loops and fields. Participants will also have the possibility to give a short lecture about their work.

Résumé: The Summer School is intended for PhD students and postdocs, having a good background in psychometrics, sociometrics, statistics, econometrics, or related areas. The Summer school will offer six master classes on current subjects in psychometrics and sociometrics, given by international experts.

Résumé: This summer program will focus on mathematical techniques used to measure, map and model brain structure and function.

Résumé: The Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference is aimed at research students in all areas of combinatorics and discrete mathematics who are currently working on their PhD. It allows students to meet and talk about their research, and related subjects. Most talks are contributed by the students themselves, apart from three talks by invited speakers.

Résumé: The Summer School is a joint venture of Centro Internacional de Matemática (CIM), and the University of Coimbra (UC), and is sponsored by the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Foundation for Science and Tecnology (FCT). It will gather a group of specialists working on Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, and will highlight emerging trends and issues of main research topics.

Résumé: Every participating university is invited to send several students and one teacher. Individual students are welcome. The competition is planned for students completing their first, second, third or fourth year of university education and will consist of 2 Sessions of 5 hours each. Problems will be from the fields of Algebra, Analysis (Real and Complex) and Combinatorics.

Résumé: The third international summer school in the series Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO program" will take place during August 2008 in the Towler Institute monastery in the Tuscan Apuan Alps

Résumé: The European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information focus on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. ESSLLI-2008 is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI).

Résumé: The aim of the Student Session is to give an opportunity to students at all levels (Bachelor-, Master- and Ph.D.-students) to present and discuss their work in progress with a possibility to get feedback from senior researchers. Each year, 18 papers are selected for oral presentation and a number of others for poster presentation. The programme committee invites submissions of papers for oral and poster presentation and for appearance in the proceedings. We welcome submissions with topics within the areas of Logic, Language and Computation.

Résumé: This is a semester-long research program that will also offer three workshops: Broader Connections: Analysis of Singular Spaces, August 28, 2008, to August 29, 2008; Introductory Workshop on Analysis of Singular Spaces, September 2, 2008, to September 5, 2008; and Elliptic and Hyperbolic Equations on Singular Spaces October 27, 2008, to October 31, 2008.

Résumé: This is the first of a planned biennial series of international summer schools on mathematical ecology and evolution in Finland, directed by Mats Gyllenberg and organised by the Biomathematics Group of the University of Helsinki. The school consists of graduate-level lectures on five topics at the research frontier.

Résumé: The summer school focuses on recent trends in universal algebra, especially in connection with theoretical computer science and logic. The program will consist of three tutorials, two plenary invited lectures, and short contributed talks of the participants.

Résumé: The Summer School is devoted to recent developments in the field of functional analytic methods in partial differential equations. This school addresses young scholars working toward a master or Ph.D. degree. Distinguished experts will each give three talks on new research results and the underlying mathematical methods and techniques.

Résumé: Lecturers: B. Fantechi (SISSA, It) A. Kresch (Universität Zürich, CH) Supporting lectures will be delivered by E. Mann (Université de Montpellier, Fr). Aim of the School: The School is mainly aimed to Phd students and young researchers in Algebraic Geometry, introducing the participants to research, beginning from a basic level with a view towards the applications and to the most recent results. A tentative program is as follows. Motivation: why stacks are needed. Basic example: moduli of curves of genus g. The 2-category of groupoids, schemes as functors, categories fibered in groupoids, pseudofunctors. The stack condition. Representable morphisms, definition of algebraic stack (in the sense of Deligne-Mumford). Quotient stacks, stacks associated to groupoids. The 2-category of stacks; open, closed substacks; topological space associated to a stack. Properties of stacks and of their morphisms; valuative criteria for separatedness and properness. Inertia stack. (Quasi)coherent sh

Résumé: Summer school in Mathematical Finance. Two plenary lectures will be organized: 1. Lévy Processes and Application in Finance, by Rama Cont and Monique Jeanblanc; 2. Random Matrices and Correlations in Large Financial Markets, by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud and Noureddine El Karoui. Advanced participants are invited to present their own work during the summer school.

Résumé: The Summer School aims at providing a meeting point for exchanging ideas and presenting new directions on the theory of copulas and related applications.

Résumé: Five lectures, accessible to upper division undergraduates in mathematics, on the state of the art in Nonlinear Functional Analysis will presented by: Peter Bates (Mathematical excursions inspired by material science), Monica Clapp (Classical and recent results on elliptic problems with critical nonlinearity), Yanyan Li (A Liouville theorem and a Harnack inequality), Ratnasingham Shivaji (Population dynamics with diffusion), and Zhi-Qiang Wang (A twisting condition, resonances, and periodic solution to Hamiltonian systems.

Résumé: Lie algebras and their representations form an extremely rich and important field of mathematics. Geometric representation theory is a relatively new field which has attracted much attention. The general idea is to use geometric methods to construct classically algebraic objects, such as representations of Lie groups and Lie algebras. Geometric techniques have proven to be particularly well suited to establishing positivity and integrality results, as these are often easy consequences of the geometric nature of the objects involved. One is also often able to use the representation theory of objects such as (affine) Kac-Moody algebras to organize and better understand the homology of various interesting spaces appearing in the constructions, like Hilbert schemes, flag varieties, Steinberg varieties, affine Grassmannians, and quiver varieties. In addition to its obvious connections to representation theory, geometric representation theory has been found to be intimately related to combinatorics (crystals, quivers), cluster algebras, mathematical physics, and many other subjects.