Advanced Institue of Mathematical Sciences

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Board of Governers

The Board of Governors is ultimately responsible for the governance of the Institute. It consists of five members, to be announced soon. Director General of AIMS is the ex-officio senior member.

Committees

Committee of Academic Sponsors (CAS)

It consists of representatives from Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF), National ICT R&D Fund, National Space Agency of Pakistan (NSAP), National Engineering & Scientific Commission (NESCOM), and Ministry of Science & Technology (MoST). The committee seeks small annual ‘dues’ from these organizations. These funds over time builds up an independent endowment for the Institute's operating budget. Sponsors send their faculty members to participate in the Institute’s programmes to further enhance their professional development.

Committee of Industrial Sponsors (CIS)

A committee of industrialists sponsors researchers and experts from abroad to come to the institute to teach and do research monitored by the International Scientific Advisory Committee.

International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC)

The International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) consists of leading researchers from scientifically developed nations. The Committee is responsible for scientific content of programmes. It selects and evaluates programmes and proposals from the mathematical community.

Joint Committee of AF, PakMS & IPMC

The Joint Committee (JC) comprises six members from three well-established and internationally known fora, namely, Algebra Forum (AF), International Pure Mathematics Conference (IPMC) and Pakistan Mathematical Society (PakMS). The Joint Committee organizes various mathematical programmes.

The Geometry and Topology of Groups

Professor Dr Brent Everitt
Department of Mathematics
University of York, UK

Target audience

Graduate and senior graduate students in mathematics and mathematicians who are non-specialists in geometric/combinatorial group theory. The lectures will be accompanied by a complete set of typesets notes, which are to be published by Springer-Verlag in their Universitext Series.

Contents

Combinatorial 2-complexes
Homotopy
Maps of 2 complexes
Homology
Presentations
Coverings
Galois Theory
Graphs and free groups
Applications of coverings
Fundamental groups of graphs of groups
Interlude: The topological dictionary
Machines
Hyperbolic geometry
Geometric properties of groups
Hyperbolic groups.

Description

The lecture will be an introduction to combinatorial and geometric group theory from the topological point of view. They will be slightly unusual, in that concepts will be introduced topologically rather than algebraically. So, free groups will be fundamental groups of graphs, subgroups will correspond to coverings, HNN-extensions will be fundamental groups of spaced with a handle sewn on, Cayley graphs will be 1-skeltons of universal covers, and so. This is a point of view that goes back to the very origins of the subject in the work of Dehn and Reideimeister.

ON-SITE WORKSHOP (Islamabad)

Program Details:
Date: 25-26 August 2015
Time: 9.30am to 02.30pm
Duration: Two Days
Venue: Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

Workshop Enrollment Fee:

Individual: Rs.5000
Full Time Student: Rs.3500
PakMS Member: Rs.4000

Mode of Payment:

Cheque/Draft: Dispatch crossed cheque/draft in favour of "A.I.M.S" at the address: Professor Dr Qaiser Mushtaq, Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. OR Direct Account Transfer: Through on-line banking, ATM/Internet/telephone transfer. Bank: Habib Bank Limited, A/C No: 02947901075203, Title of Account: A.I.M.S

Last date for enrollment: 10 August 2015

What Will You Get?

Certificate
Resource material
Post workshop consulting
Lunch and refreshment

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION:

Please do provide your nomination through email, sms or telephone call stating full name, cell number, email ID, name of organization/university, and position/designation etc OR Get Registered On-line

CONTACT:

Prof Dr Qaiser Mushtaq
Department of mathematics
Quaid-i-Azam University
Islamabad

Participants

Programmes

AIMS is an incubator of high class human source. The institute uses its own resources and is a self-earning and self-reliant mathematical hub for Pakistani mathematicians.

Various academic activities such as workshops, seminars, lectures, colloquia and certificate-awarding courses are starting soon. AIMS acquires the services of experts within the country and abroad to offer interesting and useful courses. This programme caters to the needs of students across the country.

Higher Studies

The Institute offers post-graduate one year (two-semester) diploma courses in software engineering. The students from various departments are eligible to register for this course. They will develop soft-wares which will be internationally marketable.

AIMS provides high class supervision to its PhD scholars. The supervisors will be well established foreign and competent national mathematicians.

The Institute organizes schools every year. The principal aim of schools’ programme is to provide training for young researchers in core areas of mathematics. Students meet a number of leading experts in the topic as well as other young researchers working in related areas.

Inauguration

The Advanced Institute of Mathematical Sciences is planning to have its inauguration soon. There will be an opportunity to meet eminent mathematicians, scientists, senior government officials, scholars, senior journalists, industrialists and politicians.

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