清华大学数学科学中心今年暑期请到了不少国际著名数学家来访，并且在清华大学教授一系列暑期课程，
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MSC Summer Program, 2011 

Mathematical Sciences Center (MSC), Tsinghua University is founded on December 17, 2009. Prof. Shing-Tung Yau acts as its director. Since the establishment, MSC focuses on inviting world-class famous mathematician to Tsinghua, enhancing the communication between magnificent grandmaster and Chinese young scholars. This summer (from May to August), MSC sets up nearly 30 courses, mainly covering three mathematical branches, Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry, Geometric Imaging and Computation, Topology, Geometry and Analysis.

Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry

It’s the second year of the intensive summer program on number theory, arithmetic geometry and algebraic geometry. In this program, there are short courses on the basic and fundamental issues in these areas as well as advanced courses to take the well prepared students to the current research frontier. According to recent elective data, two basic courses, Basic Algebraic Geometry (By Xinwen Zhu, Havard University and Weizhe Zheng, Columbia University), and Basic Number Theory (By Yichao Tian, Princeton University) are the most welcome. Another four more advanced courses are Introduction to Euler System (By Liang Xiao, University of Chicago and Wei Zhang, Harvard University), Topics in Arakelov Theory (By Huayi Chen, Institut de Mathematigues de Jussieu, Paris and Xinyi Yuan, Columbia University), Representation Theory of Real Reductive Groups (By Binyong Sun, CAS and Hongyu He, Louisiana State University), Automorphic Forms (By Dihua Jiang, University of Minnesota). These serious courses are sponsored by MSC and Morningside Center of AMSS together.


Geometric Imaging and Computation

This is an advanced and inter-disciplinary program. In this program, there are eight courses on fundamental geometric issues as well as applicable computations. One organizer of this program is Prof. David Xianfeng Gu from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He devotes himself to the study of Computer Graphics. Another young professor Jian Sun from MSC of Tsinghua University is interested in applying Geometry and topology to shape analysis and data analysis. They work together to build this series program. What’s in particular is that non-Chinese descent mathematician Ken Stephenson from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville joins this program and will direct a course, Discrete Conformal Geometry via Circle Packing. Other five Chinese decent mathematicians from America and Taiwan are invited to participate.

Topology, Geometry and Analysis

This program is converged with several big shots. Prof. Ari Laptev, President of the European Mathematical Society, will give a course, functional and Spectral Inequalities. Prof. David Gabai, focused on low-dimensional topology and hyperbolic geometry, is a leading researcher in those subjects. He was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometric topology. Prof. Karl-Theodor Sturm, is a German mathematician working in stochastic analysis. He is now in UniversittBonn and will spend this August in China changing mind with Chinese excellent students. At the same time, other five outstanding professors also participate in this program. They are Jianguo Liu (Duke University), Ning Jiang (Tsinghua University), Valentino Tosatti (Columbia University), Tian-Jun Li (Minnesota University) and Wei-Dong Ruan (KAIST).

More Courses

Except the above three programs, there are also several excellent courses. Richard Hamilton is teaching Geometric Flow until late June. Craig Evans spends this May in Tsinghua and has two courses about PDE. Victor Kac from MIT will give a class about Hamiltonian integrable systems. 

For more information, please come to MSC website http://msc.tsinghua.edu.cn.