There has been considerable interest in having a series of lectures in August to help those interested prepare for the Fields semester on Set Theory and Analysis this fall. Several students from Canada, Europe, Asia, the USA and both the Far and Near East have indicated that they will participate.

• Monday, August 19 2:00
  Introduction to the program -- Juris Steprans
• Tuesday, August 20 2:00
  Introduction to Borel relations -- Ilijas Farah
• Wednesday, August 21 10:00
  Exercise session -- Ilijas Farah
• Wednesday, August 21 2:00
  Seminar -- Maxim Burke
• Thursday, August 22 1:30
  Schonfield absoluteness -- Paul Larson
• Friday, August 23 1:30
  Silver's Theorem -- Paul Szeptycki
• Monday, August 26 1:30
  Introduction to Banach spaces and partition relations -- Stevo Todorcevic
• Tuesday, August 27 1:30
  Ultrafilters -- Juris Steprans
• Wednesday, August 28 10:00
  Exercise session -- Juris Steprans
• Wednesday, August 28 1:30
  Seminar -- TBA
• Thursday, August 29 1:30
  Bases in Banach spaces I-- Paul Szeptycki
• Friday, August 30 1:30
  Tsirelson space -- Ilijas Farah

The topics covered will be determined, in part, by the background of the participants. The hope is that two weeks of concentrated effort will have everyone on a similar footing for the start of the courses to be offered during the Fields semester.