Première École d'Été Franco-Nordique de Mathématiques, EEFN

Den första fransk-nordiska sommarskolan i matematik

First French-Nordic Summer School in Mathematics

The leading idea of this summer school was to improve cooperation between France and the five Nordic countries in a chosen domain of mathematics, this year in geometry.

The summer school started on June 26, 2001, at 14:00, and ended on July 3 at 14:00.

It took place at the limnology research station Erken. This station is situated on the shores of Lake Erken, one hour by car east of Stockholm-Arlanda Airport and a little north of the town of Norrtälje. It belongs to Uppsala University.

Themes

The themes of EEFN were digital, projective, and complex geometry. There were three courses on these themes:

Digital geometry. Lectures by Jean Serra
Projective geometry. Lectures by Anders Heyden
Complex geometry. Lectures by Mikael Passare

In addition, there were lectures on topics in close relation to the courses.

The program, listing events as they actually happened, is available here: DVI - PS - PDF.

Participants

EEFN was intended for doctoral students in the six countries as well as for specialists in one of the branches who want to learn more about the other two. There were 36 accepted participants, but three did not come. There were no parallel sessions: everybody was supposed to take part in the whole program. A list of all participants is available here: DVI - PS - PDF.

Economic terms

Board and lodging were free of charge for all accepted participants.
Accepted participants from the Nordic countries were reimbursed for their travel expenses.
The Cultural and Scientific Office of the French Embassy in Sweden covered part of the travel expenses for accepted participants from France.

Initiative

EEFN was initiated by the Counsellor for Culture and Science of the French Embassy in Sweden, Professor Jean-Marie Guastavino.

EEFN was conducted under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and its research institute for mathematics, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm, as well as Uppsala University.

Photos

One of the participants, Nicolas Guilbert, took several photos during the summer school, and he has now made them available on the web.

Organizing Committee

Christer Kiselman, Uppsala University and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences
Christian Berg, University of Copenhagen
Gilles Bertrand, Groupe ESIEE, Paris
Gunilla Borgefors, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
Francis Clarke, Université de Lyon I
Olivier Faugeras, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, et Académie des Sciences, Paris
Arfinn Laudal, University of Oslo
Jean-Baptiste Hiriart-Urruty, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Olli Martio, University of Helsinki
Annick Montanvert, Laboratoire des Images et des Signaux, Grenoble
Maurice Nivat, Université de Paris 7
Jean-Pierre Reveillès, Université d'Auvergne, Aubière
Jean Serra, École des Mines de Paris
Ragnar Sigurdsson, University of Iceland
Gunnar Sparr, Lund University

Address for correspondence

Christer Kiselman, kiselman@math.uu.se,
Uppsala University, Department of Mathematics
P.O.B. 480, SE-751 06 Uppsala, Sweden.
Telephone: +46 18 4713216 (o), +46 18 300708 (h), +46 708 870708 (c).
Fax: +46 18 4713201.
URL: http://www.math.uu.se/~kiselman

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