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Course 1: "Introduction to metric geometry and to Hilbert and Funk geometries", Athanase PAPADOPOULOS (Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée, Université de Strasbourg et CNRS, France) Course 2: "Introduction to geodesic flows ", Gilles COURTOIS (University of Paris, France) Course 3: "Global Riemannian geometry", Gérard BESSON (Institut Fourier, Université de Grenoble, France) Course 4: "Mixed volumes and inequalities", Ivan IZMESTIEV (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Course 5: "Introduction to group actions ", Olga Kharlampovich (Graduate Center and City University of New York, USA) Course 6: "Actions of mapping class groups on various spaces and their rigidity ", Kenichi OHSHIKA, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan Training sessions: The afternoon sessions will be exclusively dedicated to tutorials and discussions. The coordinators of the training sessions and complimentary lecturers will include: Muhammed Uludag (Galatasaray University) Norbert A’Campo (Univ. Basel)