BGSMath Advanced Courses Spring 2017

The Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics BGSMath offers intensive advanced graduate courses every semester on specialized topics.

The duration is 10 to 20 hours distributed along 2 to 3 weeks. Some are in connection with monthly programs while others stand alone.

The courses are organized by BGSMath members and taught by research leaders in the corresponding fields.

The courses offered in winter/spring 2017 are the following:

• Category Theory 

From 10th January to 21th January, by Joachim Kock, and Tom Leinster.

• p-adic methods for Galois representations and modular forms

From 30th January to 22th January, by Adrian Iovita, Vincent Pilloni, and Payman Kassaei.

• Random discrete structures

From 29th May to 30th June, by Colin McDiarmid, Luc Devroye, David Conlon, Benny Sudakov, and Tobias Muller.

• Algebraic and combinatorial phylogenetics

From 19th June to 7th July, by Mike Steel, Arndt von Haeseler, and Piotr Zwiernik.

• Interactions of harmonic analysis, combinatorics and number theory

From 24th April to 19th May, by Joaquim Ortega-Cerdà, Juanjo Rué, Jorge Jimenez, Oriol Serra, and Pablo Candela.

• Arithmetic properties of curves of small genus

From 14th to 24th February by Jordi Guàrdia, Joan-C. Lario, and Christophe Ritzenthaler.

More information and registration can be found in http://bgsmath.cat/bgsmath-graduate-courses/.