AMSI Summer School 2010

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The 8th Annual AMSI Summer School was hosted by La Trobe University from 11 January to 5 February, 2010.

The organising committee, Grant Cairns, Brian Davey, Marcel Jackson, Chris Kozaris and Andriy Olenko presented an excellent program comprising seven subjects and a number of guest lectures.

Course	Lecturer
Soap films - Minimal surfaces and partial differential equations	Maria Athanassenas (Monash University)
Applications of mathematics and statistics to bioinformatics	Conrad Burden (ANU)
Geometry and group actions	Grant Cairns (La Trobe University)
Nonparametric curve estimation	Aurore Delaigle (University of Melbourne)
Introduction to the numerical approximation of partial differential equations	Markus Hegland (ANU)
Computational complexity in theory and practice	Marcel Jackson (La Trobe University)
Measure theory	Marty Ross (ex University of Melbourne)

There will be a number of other activities: some mathematical and some social.

This is an excellent opportunity for students to broaden their mathematical base, and to make useful connections with mathematics students and staff from around Australia. Past experience has shown that students find the summer school to be a very enjoyable and enriching experience.

LaTrobe Summer School

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