The Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of the International Mathematical Union is pleased to announce that Professor Brigitte Lucquin of Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, France is completing her stay as visiting lecturer in Benin. She is taking part in the Volunteer Lecturer Program from the 7th - 25th November 2011 and is teaching a course on "Introduction to Partial Differential Equations and their Approximations" at the L'Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques (IMSP) in Benin and is supported by CDC/ IMU.

The course is given in French. Participants are mainly students of the master level, but also some PhD students, colleagues and some physicists.  They come from Benin, but also from Guinea, Burundi, Togo, Cameroun and Mali.