Summer 2006
The fifth annual Summer School of the Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS) was held in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics on the campus of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, from Sunday July 16 to Saturday August 12.
School Director Tony Thompson at Peggy's Cove during the passing of a tropical storm.
The summer school was intended for graduate students and promising undergraduate students from all parts of the world. Each participant was expected to register for two of the courses. Each course consisted of five ninety-minute lectures each week. These were Dalhousie University graduate courses and transfer credits to the extent possible were facilitated.
For more information about AARMS go to the AARMS homepage. For information about the summer school and about Halifax go to the school web page.
As in the previous Schools, four courses were offered:
- Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Instructor: Mark Bauer, University of Calgary
- Introduction to Algebraic
Geometry
Instructor: Rick Miranda, Colorado State University - Introduction to
Wavelet Theory and Numerical applications
Instructor: Anita Tabacco, Politecnico di Torino - Massive Networks and
Internet Mathematics
Instructor: Anthony Bonato, Wilfrid Laurier University A list of accepted attendees is available in pdf form as of July 10th, 2006.