The Institute of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (IMSP, Benin) has a scientific cooperation with the Department of Physics and the Department of Mathematics of the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Vitória, Brazil) since a dozen of years.  This cooperation implies visits of  researchers from IMSP ( Benin) to Vitoria, visits of researchers from UFES to  Benin, the possibility of making a thesis at UFES for students of IMSP and the organisation of scientific meetings. In 2009, a meeting called  ”Encontro Afro-Franco-Brasileiro em Matemática e Física " has been organized in Ubu (Vitória, Brazil) from 14 till 18 February. The researchers of IMSP stayed after this meeting at IMPA (Rio de Janeiro), for the mathematicians, and at CBPF for the physicists. The present meeting is therefore giving a continuity to this cooperation. It aims to gather researchers from Brazil, Benin and different countries of Africa, working in different areas to exchange ideas and scientific results for two weeks. PhD students of IMSP can also meet and discuss researches issues with experts from Brazil and France.
      As it can be seen, those activities create a network between IMSP in Benin, UFES, IMPA and CBPF in Brazil and some universities in France (University of Dijon).

Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques (IMSP)
Po. Box 613, Porto-Novo, Bénin.
Main contact:
Prof Joël TOSSA
Tel.: (00229)20 22 24 55 ; Fax: (00229)20 22 24 55       
E-mail: joel.tossa@imsp-uac.org

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1) Mathematics and mathematical physics
Giuseppe Dito (Univ. Bourgogne, France), Geometric quantization (4h)
Denis Perrot (Univ. Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, France), Index theorems  and Applications(4h)           
Hervé Oyono (Univ. Metz, France), Index theorems and Applications (4h)
Augustin Banyaga  (Penn State University), C⁰-symplectic Topology (6h)
Jean d'Almeida (Uni. de Lille, France), The Hodge conjecture (6h)
Valmecir Bayer (UFES, Brazil)
Henrique Burszytin (IMPA, Brazil) Symplectic Geometry (4h)

2) Theoretical physics
Olivier Piguet (UFES, Brazil),            Quantum  Gravity (6h)         
Julio C. Fabris ( UFES, Brazil),          Cosmology    (4h)                        
Winfried Zimdahl ( UFES, Brazil)     Cosmology
Olivier Piattella ( UFES, Brazil)
Manuel Eleutério Rodrigues (UFES, Brazil)
Magno Branco ( UFES, Brazil)
Felipe Tovar (CBPF, Brazil)
Ilya Shapiro (UFJF-Brazil), QFT and the cosmological constant problem  (6h)
Patrick Peter (IAP-France) Inflationary scenario (6h)
Glauber Tadaiesky (DF-UFPA)

There will be                                                                                                 
       -  sessions for contributed papers                                                              
       -  posters sessions                                                                                                          
       -  sessions on development problems related to the region, specifically:     
 

Estimated number of participants : 50

      From own country              From the region     From outside the region

               15                                  20                                  15

The participants will be PhD students and young PhD holders in many African Universities. The level of the activity will be advanced. We hope that plenary speakers will give the state of the art in their presentation and will have a final talk on open problems in their fields