2-12 JULY 2011

MATHEMATICAL

HOST AND VENUE for Students Jacobs University Scientific Committee Étienne Ghys (École Normale The summer school is based on the park-like campus of Supérieure de Lyon, France), chair Jacobs University, with lecture halls, library, small group study rooms, cafeterias, and recreation facilities within Frances Kirwan (University of Oxford, UK) easy walking distance. Dierk Schleicher (Jacobs University, Germany) Alexei Sossinsky (Moscow University, Russia) Jacobs University is an international, highly selective, Sergei Tabachnikov (Penn State University, USA) residential campus university in the historic Hanseatic Anatoliy Vershik (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) city of Bremen. It features an attractive math program Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud, France) with personal attention to students and their individual interests. Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (Collège de France) Don Zagier (Max Planck-Institute Bonn, Germany; › Home to approximately 1,200 students from over Collège de France) 100 different countries Günter M. Ziegler (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) › English language university › Committed to excellence in higher education Organizing Committee › Has a special program with fellowships for the most Anke Allner (Universität Hamburg, Germany) talented students in mathematics from all countries Martin Andler (Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, › Venue of the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad France) (IMO) 2009 Victor Kleptsyn (Université de Rennes, France) Marcel Oliver (Jacobs University, Germany) For more information about the mathematics program Stephanie Schiemann (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) at Jacobs University, please visit: Dierk Schleicher (Jacobs University, Germany) math.jacobs-university.de Sergei Tabachnikov (Penn State University, USA)

at Jacobs University, Bremen The School is an initiative in the framework of the European Campus of Excellence (ECE).

Endorsed by: European Mathematical Society (EMS) Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV), Animath

Supported by: VolkswagenStiftung and Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) 2-12 JULY 2011

Summer School for Students The school is open to students from all countries in their Some of the last two years of high school or first two years of university. Main Speakers & Tentative Topics The school is held in English. Mario Bonk (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Instructors of the School include some of the leading »Analysis without Smoothness« international mathematicians who enjoy giving exciting John H. Conway (Princeton University, USA) presentations to talented students from high schools and »The Game of Life and a Life of Games« universities and discussing with them! Étienne Ghys (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France) »Surfaces and Geometry« Are you really Participation Details John H. Hubbard interested in Mathematics? Participants are expected to have solid working command (Cornell University, USA; Université Aix-Marseille, France) of English. Limited support on English mathematical »Dynamics and Chaos« terminology will be offered in selected languages. Sergei Tabachnikov (Penn State University, USA) The school is generously supported by VolkswagenStiftung »Flavors of “Bicycle Mathematics”« Do you want to... and Clay Mathematics Institute. The nominal contribution Tadashi Tokieda (University of Cambridge, UK) for participants is 400; this includes accommodation, › learn about mathematics approaching the frontier € »Geometry and Physics« meals, scientific program, and excursion. We have gener- of current knowledge? Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France) ous (partial) fellowships available: nobody should be »Probability« › spend ten days discussing problems with leading excluded for financial reasons! Limited support for travel international mathematicians? expenses may be available in exceptional cases. Don Zagier; tentative › meet exciting mathematicians and interesting (Max Planck Institute Bonn, Germany; Collège de France) »Number Theory« fellow students from around the world? Contact Günter M. Ziegler (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Then join us at the International Mathematical [email protected] »Extremal Geometric Structures« Summer School for Students! math.jacobs-university.de/summerschool … and more.

Important Deadlines

04 May 2011 Applications Due

10 May 2011 Notification of Selected Participants

30 May 2011 Deposits Due

02 June 2011 Notification of Wait-List Participants Begins