Professor David Mumford of Brown University will be in residence at the 
Chennai Mathematical Institute from the 7th of January to the 24th of 
February, 2008.

He will deliver a course of lectures on the "Theory of Shape".

The class will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays between 2:00 and 3:30 p.m.

The first lecture is on the 8th of January.


Course description: Methods of representing shape, the geometry of the 
space of shapes, warping and matching of shapes, and some applications to 
problems in computer vision and medical imaging.

Prerequisites: Good knowledge of variational calculus, Hilbert space, 
L2(Rn). Background which will be rapidly introduced/reviewed as these 
topics are needed: function spaces including Sobolev spaces, basic 
differential geometry - covariant derivatives, geodesics, curvature, Lie 
groups/algebras, conformal and complex analytic maps and their expansions. 
Mathematics".