Program of the First Week, August 11 to 15

There will be five mini courses offered during the week August 11 to 15, 2008. Each will consist of five lectures of one hour. Four mini courses will be at the graduate level and one at the undergraduate level. The following mini courses have been planned

Graduate Level Mini Courses

The Speed of Propagation of Fronts For The Reaction-Diffusion Equation By Rafael Benguria, Universidad Católica de Chile.

Spectral Methods in Superconductivity By Bernard Helffer, Université de Paris Sud.
Lecture Notes

Geometric Scattering Theory with Applications to Conformal and CR Geometry By Peter Hislop, University of Kentucky.

Sharp Bounds on the Number of Resonances and Applications to Scattering Theory By Georgi Vodev, Université de Nantes.

Undergraduate Level Mini Course

Some Mathematical Problems Related to Medical Imaging By Antônio Sá Barreto Purdue University

Schedule of Classes

Monday

9:00- 9:15 opening, information, etc.
9:15 -10:15 Helffer
10:30-11:30 Vodev
1:30-- 2:30 Benguria
16:00-- 17:00 Sá Barreto

Tuesday

9:15 -10:15 Vodev
10:30-11:30 Helffer
13:30-- 14:30 Hislop
14:45 -15:45 Benguria
16:00-17:00 Sá Barreto

Wednesday

9:15 -10:15 Benguria
10:30-11:30 Hislop
13:30-- 14:30 Helffer
14:45--15:45 Vodev
16:00--17:00 Sá Barreto

Thursday

9:15 -10:15 Hislop
10:30-11:30 Benguria
13:30-- 14:30 Vodev
14:45 -15:45 Helffer
16:00-- 17:00 Sá Barreto

Friday

9:15 -10:15 Vodev
10:30-11:30 Helffer
13:00-- 14:00 Benguria
14:15 -16:15 Hislop
16:00-17:00 Sá Barreto