Prof. Fabrizio Ruggeri (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, Italy) has taught at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras in Tegucigalpa, Honduras from 13-24/2/2017 and 25/3-9/4/2017 a course in Nonparametric Statistics. For the full report, please go here.
This activity was supported by a grant from the Niels Henrik Abel Board (Norway).
Prof. Carlos Fernández (Spain) gave a course in Real Analysis at the Universidad Nacional Pedagógica Francisco Morarán (Honduras) during November 5-December 1, 2017. He was partially supported by the Abel Board.
This activity was supported by a grant from the Niels Henrik Abel Board (Norway).
Prof. Michel Jambu from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France visited the National University of Mongolia (NUM) between April 23 - May 13, 2017. The goal of his missions was to start joint activities between NUM and the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and to give a course within the master program of mathematics of NUM. Prof. Jambu gave a course on Topology. Besides the master students, some teachers of the department of mathematics attended our lectures, as well as some teachers of the secondary schools. There were about 20 participants, but due to some constraints, the teachers could not attend all the lectures. He was partially supported by the Abel Board.
More information about the visit can be found in the report.
This activity was supported by a grant from the Niels Henrik Abel Board (Norway).
Michel Jambu (France) gave a course in "Projective Geometry" at the University of Mandalay in December 2017.
Brigitte Lucquin (France) gave a a course in "Partial Differential Equations: Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Approximation" at the University of Mandalay in December 2017.
In May 2017 CDC supported the travel and living cost of Prof. Michel Waldschmidt (France) who taught Modul I during May 1 - 12, 2017. 13 Master Students participated in the course. Detailed information about the course is available on the website of NAP hosted by RNTA. He was partially supported by the Abel Board.
Below you find pictures from the course, module 1.
This activity was supported by a grant from the Niels Henrik Abel Board (Norway).
Prof. Sylvia Wiegand (USA) and Prof. Roger Wiegand (USA) gave a course in the Nepal Algebra Project 2017, VLP, Module II from May 14-26, 2017.
They were responsible for Module II, the second of five modules. They presented material in lecture format, encouraging questions from students and asking questions of them. Each day they wrote a summary of what was covered that day; these summaries, as well as miscellaneous notes, homework assignments, and (after assignments were due) solutions, were promptly posted on the course website by Dr. Nilakantha Paudel. Homework was graded by graduate students at University of Rom (Italy) Roma Tre and grading policies were determined by the faculty at Roma Tre, in particular, Professor Francesco Pappalardi.)
Topics covered during Module II were algebraically closed fields; maps from simple extensions; splitting fields; multiple roots; groups of automorphisms of fields; separable, normal, and Galois extensions; Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory; examples
The lecturers followed a prescribed syllabus which was available before the course began. The text for the course is "Fields and Galois Theory" by J. S. Milne, available free of charge. During the course the lecturers followed the book fairly closely, augmenting certain sections with appropriate handouts. They also donated a copy of Dummit & Foote's "Algebra" to the University library and encouraged students to consult it. We used whiteboards for all presentations. The course was course in English and most of the students were quite fluent in English. From interactions with students we realized that any difficulties were mathematical, not linguistic.
Since this was only the second module of five (weeks 3 & 4 of a 10-week course), the lecturers goal was to guide the students through the material and prepare them for later modules. From the beginning, they emphasized the tight relationship between roots of polynomials and field homomorphisms. This relationship became formalized in the Fundamental Theorem, presented during the last two classes of Module II.
Both lecturers corresponded with some of the students after the end of Module II and told them where to find additional problems on Galois Theory, namely, in the book (which the lecturers donated to the Department Library) by Dummit and Foote. They were partially supported by the Abel Board.
