Program of the academic year 2009/2010

Please consider also the program Transferable skills of the CUSO, and StartingDoc.

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Recommended for all doctoral students
Recommended for all doctoral students working in the field
Recommended for advanced doctoral students working in the field


Graduate Course of the III Cycle: Special topics in biomathematics
Prof. Christian Mazza, Prof. Jean-Pierre Gabriel (Fribourg)
Fall term 2009, Wednesdays, 11:15 - 12:30, start: September 16
Place: EPFL, room CM 10

Graduate Course of the III Cycle: Introduction to global singularity theory
Prof. Andras Szenes (Geneva)
Fall term 2009, Wednesdays, 14:15 - 15:30, start: September 16
Place: EPFL, room MA A1 12

Graduate Course of the III Cycle: Numerical ranges of matrices and linear operators
Prof. Christiane Tretter (Bern)
Fall term 2009, Wednesdays, 15:45 - 17:00, start: September 16
Place: EPFL, room MA A1 12

Séance d'information pour doctorant-e-s
September 21, 2009, University of Geneva
12.15 to 14.00, room S130 Uni Mail
Organization: Eliane.Barth@unige.ch

Workshop and mini-courses: Invariant Hilbert Schemes and Wonderful Varieties
September 28-30, 2009, Basel
Research talks by young researchers in the field are complemented by two mini-courses taught by M. Brion and D. Luna aimed at students working in the field of the theory of Algebraic Groups and in Algebraic Geometry.
Organization: Jonas Budmiger

Michel Plancherel Lecture 2009
Stephan Stolz (University of Notre Dame / MPI Bonn):
Field theories and modular functions
November 2, 17:15
University of Fribourg Pérolles, Lecture Room 0.110, Biology Building

Mini Course by N. Th. Varopoulos: Le Problème de Dirichlet discret et classique dans des domaines Lipschitziens
University of Geneva, November and December 2009
First meeting: Tuesday, 3 November, 13:15, room 623, Section de Mathématiques, rue du Lièvre, 2-4.
Organization: Yvan Velenik (Geneva)

Symposium: Trends in Essential Dimension
December 17, 2009, Basel
This symposium is intended for mathematicians interested in the fields of group theory, representation theory, algebraic groups, algebraic geometry, quadratic forms, central simple algebras, invariant theory, moduli spaces and related topics, the unifying theme being the notion of essential dimension. The symposium focuses on trends and new techniques in essential dimension.
Organization: Giordano Favi and Roland Lötscher

Mini Course: Schrödinger operators: Resonances arising from a perturbed eigenvalue
Arne Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
EPFL - CIB, January 11 - February 26, 2010
Organization: Christiane Tretter (Bern)

Séminaire Borel: Winter School in Mathematical Physics
Les Diablerets, January 31 to February 5, 2010
Organization: Anton Alekseev, Andras Szenes (Geneva)

Mini course: Numerical integration of stochastic differential equations
Des Higham (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)
Basel, February 11-13, 2010
Organization: David Cohen

Sixth Graduate Colloquium
February 11-12, 2010, Geneva
Organization: David Albertani

Mini course: Plongement des espaces métriques et applications
Florent Baudier, Neuchâtel
Dates: February 24, March 3, 17, 24 and 31, 2010
Time: 14-17
Place: Salle B217, Institut de Mathématiques, Université de Neuchâtel, 11 Rue Emile Argand

Seminar: Geometry and Dynamics in Negative Curvature
Neuchâtel, begin: February 25, 2010
Organization: Bruno Colbois, Felix Schlenk (Neuchâtel)

Journée Georges de Rham
Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) and Alexander Bobenko (Technische Universität Berlin)
March 10, 2010, EPF Lausanne
Organizer: Marc Troyanov (EPFL)

Séminaire Kervaire: Geometry, Topology and Computation in Groups
Les Diablerets, March 7-12, 2010
Organization: Laura Ciobanu (Fribourg), Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda (Geneva)

Mini Course: Low eigenvalues of the Laplacian (analysis, geometry and numerics)
Pedro Freitas (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and Universidade de Lisboa)
Date: March 15, 2010
Time: from 14h to 16h
Place: Salle B217, Institut de Mathématiques, Université de Neuchâtel, 11 Rue Emile Argand

Mini Course: Random Schrödinger operators
Peter Hislop (University of Kentucky) and Frédéric Klopp (Université de Paris 13)
EPFL - CIB, May 17 - May 30, 2010
Organization: Christiane Tretter (Bern)

Mini Course: Foncteurs associées aux bi-ensembles
EPFL, June 25 and 28-30, 2010
Organization: Donna Testerman, Jacques Thévenaz (EPFL)

Mini course: La structure des p-groupes finis et la théorie des représemtations
EPFL, June 25 and 28-30, 2010
Organization: Donna Testerman, Jacques Thévenaz (EPFL)

Colloquium: Group representation theory and related topics
EPFL, June 22-25, 2010
Organization: Donna Testerman (EPFL)

Graduate Course of the III Cycle: Autour des problèmes de Linnik
Prof. Philippe Michel (EPFL)
Fall term 2010, Wednesdays, 11:15 - 12:30, beginning: September 22.
Place: EPFL

Graduate Course of the III Cycle: Homologie de Floer et applications
Prof. Felix Schlenk (Neuchâtel)
Fall term 2010, Wednesdays, 14:15 - 15:30, beginning: September 22.
Place: EPFL

Graduate Course of the III Cycle: Introduction to complex analysis in several variables
Prof. Frank Kutzschebauch (Bern)
Fall term 2010, Wednesdays, 15:45 - 17:00, beginning: September 22.
Place: EPFL

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