Tilskudd til Mittag-Leffler instituttet

The grant will fund the research programmes at the Mittag-Leffler institute. The Mitttag-Leffler institute has become a centre for research networks between Nordic and foreign research groups within mathematics. Here, young Nordic researchers are given a n opportunity to work closely with leading international experts in a profitable environment. During their stay at the institute, the same experts are open to invitations from the different Nordic research groups at local level. During the latest years , the programmes have been organised partly as a joint effort by mathematicians from the Nordic countries. Consequently, the institute has become an important organ for Nordic cooperation, which in turn opens possibilities to give our less renown research groups an international effectiveness otherwise restricted to bigger research centres. The programmes have also achieved international prestige, and might accordingly attract guests from the international elite to its programmes within a field of researc h. The spring of 2005 the research program at the Mittag-Leffler Institute is in “Wave Motion”. H. Holden (NTNU) and K. H. Karlsen (University of Oslo) is in the scientific steering committee for this program. The spring of 2006 the research program at the Mittag-Leffler Institute is in “Algebraic Topology”. The Chairman of the Scientific steering committee for this program is Professor Bjørn Jahren from the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo. The project is a continuation of project nu mber 155092/432, which has run from 01.01.2004-31.12.2004.