Mini Courses

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.

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