Five intensive courses are to be run by the London Taught Course Centre (LTCC) in Spring /Summer 2009. These ‘one-day’ courses typically start at 1pm on the first day, finish at 1pm the next day and are open to PhD students throughout the UK and outside.

The courses are as follows:

• Causal Inference (led by Dr Vanessa Didelez, Bristol), 14-15 May, at De Morgan House, London;
• L-Functions (led by Dr Yiannis Petridis, UCL), 18-19 May, at De Morgan House, London;
• Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (led by Professor Peter Clarkson, Kent), 21-22 May, at the University of Kent;
• From Quantum Algebras to Total Non-Negativity (led by Dr Stephane Launois, Kent), 28-29 May, at the University of Kent;
• Lattice-Boltzmann Methods (led by Dr Nick Ovenden, UCL and Dr Paul Dellar, Oxford), 8-9 June, at De Morgan House, London.

Supported by EPSRC, the LTCC’s aim here is that as many PhD students as possible attend. Further details are available on the LTCC website.

Also, in anticipation of next year's session and subsequent ones, the LTCC would be particularly interested in receiving your suggestions for suitable topics ('hot topics') and lecturers for future intensive courses. Suggestions for next year's session in particular would be best sent to Nisha Jones or Frank Smith within the next three months please.

Funding, available both for organisers and for student participants, can be discussed via the contacts above.