Program:

Course 1: "Introduction to metric and Finsler geometry ", Athanase PAPADOPOULOS (Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS, France)

Course 2: "Introduction to the dynamics of the geodesic flow", Gilles COURTOIS (University of Paris, France)

Course 3: "Global Riemannian geometry", Gérard BESSON (Institut Fourier, Université de Grenoble, France)

Course 4: "Mixed volumes and inequalities", Ivan IZMESTIEV (Technical University of Vienna , Austria )

Course 5: "Groups actions on R-trees and Lambda -trees ", Olga Kharlampovich (Graduate Center and City University of New York, USA)

Course 6: "Actions of mapping class groups on various spaces and their rigidity ", Kenichi OHSHIKA, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan

Training sessions:

The afternoon sessions will be exclusively dedicated to tutorials and discussions. The coordinators of the training sessions and complimentary lecturers will include:

• Muhammed Uludag (Galatasaray University)
• Norbert A’Campo (Univ. Basel)