Program of the academic year 2007/2008

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Graduate Course: Residues and Topology
Prof. Andras Szenes, University of Geneva
Fall term 2007 and Spring term 2008
Time: Tuesday 15:15 - 17:00, followed by Exercises 17:15 - 18:00
Place: University of Geneva, Section de Mathématiques salle 624
Abstract: Differential forms on manifolds. Vector bundles and characteristic classes. Problems in enumerative geometry and integration manifolds. Residues in several dimensions. The Bott residues formula and its applications to enumerative geometry. Residues and quotients by group actions.

Graduate Course: L'invariance conforme en physique mathématique
Prof. Stanislav Smirnov, University of Geneva
Fall term 2007
Time: Friday, 10:15 - 12:00, starting September 21
Place: University of Geneva, Section de Mathématiques salle 623
Contents: Mouvement brownien, Courbes de Schramm-Loewner, Modele d'Ising, Percolation, Champ libre Gaussien, etc

Third Graduate Colloquium
January 24-25, 2008, Bern
Organizer: Stephane Materna, Thomas Zürcher

Geometry Week in Neuchâtel
February 11-15, 2008, Neuchâtel
Organizer: Bruno Colbois

Journée de Rham (IIIe Cycle Romand de Mathématiques)
EPFL, March 5, 2008
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz and Gang Tian
Organizer: Norbert Hungerbühler, Francine Meylan, Paolo de Bartolomeis

Séminaire hors-ville du III Cycle Romand de Mathématiques: Groups and Dynamics
Les Diablerets, March 9-14, 2008
Organization: Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda

Schweizer Numerik Kolloquium / Colloque Numérique Suisse
Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing
Fribourg, April 25, 2008
Organization: Jean-Paul Berrut, Ales Janka

Topology in the Swiss Alps: Young Topologists' Meeting
Le Châtelard, Mai 26-31, 2008
Organization: patrick.muller@epfl.ch

Analyse, géométrie et dynamique sur les groupes
Neuchâtel, June 11-13, 2008
Organization: Alain Valette

Mini course: Graphs and complexes of groups
Neuchâtel, June 2-23, 2008
Instructor: Seonhee Lim
Organization: Alain Valette

Workshop: Symmetries in Geometry & Topology 2008
Fribourg, July 3-5, 2008
Organization: Anand Dessai, Uwe Semmelmann, Wilderich Tuschmann

Mini Course by Pengfei Guan: Topics of nonlinear partial differential equations in complex geoemtry
Event in the framework of the Conference on Complex Analysis 2008.
Fribourg, Monday, July 7, 2008
Organization: Norbert Hungerbühler

Poisson 2008 School
Bernoulli Center at EPFL, July 1-4, 2008
Info: Anton Alekseev

Poisson 2008: Poisson Geometry in Mathematics and Physics
Bernoulli Center at EPFL, July 7-11, 2008
Info: Anton Alekseev

Mini Course by Mei-Chi Shaw: Methods of partial differential equations in several complex variables
Event in the framework of the Conference on Complex Analysis 2008.
Fribourg, Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Organization: Norbert Hungerbühler

Mini Course by Ngaiming Mok: Holomorphic maps on bounded symmetric domains of rank ≥ 2: Ergodic Theory, bounded holomorphic functions and geometric structures
Event takes place in the framework of the Conference on Complex Analysis 2008.
Fribourg, Thursday, July 10, 2008
Organization: Norbert Hungerbühler

Summer School: Bounded Cohomology, Coxeter Groups and Hyperbolic Geometry
August 18 - 20, 2008, Fribourg
Instructors: Michelle Bucher-Karlsson (KTH Stockholm), Anna Felikson (Moscow/Fribourg), Pavel Tumarkin (Moscow/Fribourg)
Organization: Ruth Kellerhals

Conference on Algebraic Topology
August 18 - 24, 2008, Arolla
Organization: Christian Ausoni (Bonn), Kathryn Hess (EPFL), Jérôme Scherer (Barcelona)

Séminaire Borel, III Cycle Romand de Mathématiques: New approaches to curvature
Les Diablerets, August 24 - 29, 2008
Organization: Andreas Bernig, Bruno Colbois

Workshop: Analytic Properties of Infinite Groups
Geneva, August 25 - 29, 2008
Organization: Goulnara Arjantseva, Nicolas Monod

Three Mini-courses and a Workshop. Field: Probability, Statistical Mechanics.
Neuchâtel, September 1-12, 2008
Mini-courses (September 1-10):
  • Béatrice de Tilière (Neuchâtel): The dimer model in Statistical Mechanics
  • Grégory Maillard (EPFL): Infinite memory chains and Gibbs measures
  • Yvan Velenik (Geneva): The Ising model
Workshop (September 11-12): Consists of research seminars accessible to doctoral students in the field of probability.
Info: Béatrice de Tilière

CIME-EMS School in Applied Mathematics Mathematical models in the manufacturing of glass, polymers and textiles
Pistoia, September 8 - 19, 2008
Antonio Fasano (Firenze), John Ockendon (Oxford)
Info: Rolf Jeltsch

Fourth Graduate Colloquium
September 18 - 19, 2008, Neuchâtel
Organization: Kolawolé Atchade, Gregory Roth

Séance d'information pour doctorant-e-s
September 18, 2008, Geneva
Organization: Eliane.Barth@rectorat.unige.ch

Graduate Course of the III Cycle: Mathematical aspects of cryptology
Prof. Arjen Lenstra, EPFL
Fall term 2008, Wednesdays, 11:15 - 12:30, start: September 17
Place: EPFL, room GR A3 30

Graduate Course of the III Cycle: Elliptic Genera
Prof. Anand Dessai, Fribourg
Fall term 2008, Wednesdays, 14:15 - 15:30, start: September 17
Place: EPFL, room CM 1 106

Graduate Course of the III Cycle: Poisson Lie groups and Poisson homogeneous spaces
Prof. Jiang-Hua Lu, University of Hongkong, visiting CIB
Fall term 2008, Wednesdays, 15:45 - 17:00, start: September 17
Place: EPFL, room CM 1 106
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