International Mathematical
Summer School for Students
Introduction
This summer school is an introduction to top-level mathematical
research topics for highly selected international students at the
age of transition between high school and university. Presentations
and mini-courses will be given by international leading university
mathematicians.
The summer school combines the best features from several
successful international activities for talented students, such as
the Russian-language summer school "Sovremennaya Matematika"
(Contemporary mathematics) in Dubna near Moscow, the MASS research
semesters program at Penn State University/USA, and the 50th
anniversary celebration of the International Mathematical Olympiad
(IMO 2009) in Bremen/Germany. Key organizers of all these
activities are among the initiators of our school. We hope that our
school will help foster connections among the international
participants as well as develop the attractiveness of the European
Research Area at the international level, and we hope that it will
encourage international students to study in Europe and in
particular in the host countries.
We are very happy that some of the most prominent and exciting
international research mathematicians have agreed to joining the
Scientific Committee and coming to Bremen as lecturers.
The scientific age of the contestants should be so that they are
in their last years of high school, or in their first two years of
university. Of course this means different things, in terms of
preparation, for different countries. In particular, participants
should have working knowledge in basic calculus, and they should
not yet have specialized into any particular area of
mathematics.
We are committed to admitting talented students with diverse
backgrounds.
Étienne Ghys, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Chair of scientific committee
Dierk Schleicher, Jacobs University
Chair of the organizing committee
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