Programme

Monday 17

9:00 – 9:30 Reception

9:30-10:00 Opening Ceremony

10:00:11:00 Plenary Lecture :

Fritz Scheuren ( National Opinion Research Center Chicago and Washington, D.C , USA )

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:30 Four Courses (see Table below)

13:30-16:00 Lunch and free time

16:00-18:00 Four Courses (see Table below)

Cultural activity

Tuesday 18

9:00-11:00 Four Courses (see Table below)

11:00-11:30 Coffe Break

11:30-13:30 Four Courses (see Table below)

13:30-16:00 Lunch and free time

16:00-17:00 Plenary Lecture:

Ron Elber ( Cornell University , USA )

17:30-19:00 Plenary Lecture: "Teaching Relevant, Useful Mathematics"

Jeremy Kilpatrick ( University of Georgia , USA )

Wednesday 19

9:00-11:00 Four Courses (see Table below)

11:00:11:30 coffe Break

11:30-13:30 Four Courses (see Table below)

13:30-16:00 Lunch and free time

16:00-17:00 Plenary Lecture

Ron Dembo (Founder and CEO of Zerofootprint Inc.)

17:30: 19:00 Plenary Lecture : "From Dutch Dykes To Value At Risk Extreme Value Theory And Copulae As Risk Management Tools"

Paul Embrechts ( Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich )

Thursday 20

9:00-11:00 Four Courses (see Table below)

11:00:11:30 Coffe Break

11:30-13:30 Four Courses (see Table below)

13:30-16:00 Lunch and free time

Cultural activity

Friday 21

9:00-11:00 Four Courses (see Table below)

11:00:11:30 Coffe Break

11:30-13:30 Four Courses (see Table below)

13:30-16:00 Lunch and free time

16:00-17:00 Plenary Lecture

Edriss Titti ( University of California, Irvine, USA & Weisman Institute of Science, Israel )

17:30: 19:00 Plenary Lecture

Maria José Pacifico ( Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil )

Cultural activity

Saturday 22

10:00-11.00 Plenary Lecture

Simon Donalson ( Imperial College , UK)

11:00-11:30 Closing Ceremony

* “Courses of Summer School “Mathematics for Peace and Development”

Table

(*) Since on Monday 17 at 9:30 will held the Opening Ceremony, the four courses:

•  Statistics for Human Welfare;

•  Mathematics and Physics: Moduli spaces in geometry and physics;

•  Mathematics and Biology: Biological Motion; and

•  History of Mathematics

will held at 16:00 - 18:00 instead at 9:00 – 11:00