ICE-EM/AMSI Summer School 2008

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The 6th annual AMSI/ICE‑EM Summer School in Mathematics was hosted by Monash University, Clayton Campus, from 14 January to 8 February 2008. The organising committee, Prof. Robert Bartnik (Director), Dr Maria Athanassenas, Ms Gertrude Nayak, Dr Burkard Polster and Ms Amanda Teo presented an excellent program with both lecturers and students indicating a high level of satisfaction with the courses and overall organisation.

The School hosted a total of 116 students including international students from Hong Kong and Bogota, Columbia. The program covered eight honours-level topics in pure and applied mathematics and statistics with 64 students taking courses for credit.

pdf Summer School Report 2008.pdf

Course	Lecturer
Measure Theory	Marty Ross (ex The University of Melbourne)
Partial Differential Equations	Jerry Kazdan (University of Pennsylvania)
Knots and Links	Iain Aitchison (The University of Melbourne)
Approximation Theory	Markus Hegland (The Australian National University)
The Art and Science of Modelling, Analysing and Solving Decision-Making Problems	Moshe Sniedovich (The University of Melbourne)
Advanced Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations	Andrew Bassom (The University of Western Australia)
Lie Groups	John Stillwell (University of San Francisco)
Martingales in Discrete Time	Kais Hamza (Monash University)

Monash University, Melbourne,

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