3 series of lectures: Jacob Murre (Leiden): Lectures on motives. V. Srinivas (Bombay): Some applications of algebraic cycles to affine algebraic geometry. Andrzej Weber (Warszawa): Equivariant cohomology from the motivic point of view. SCHEDULE: Friday: 9:30 Welcome and few words on Impanga by P. Pragacz 9:45-10:45 Murre 1 coffee/tea 11:15-12:15 Srinivas 1 Lunch 14:15-15:15 Murre 2 coffee/tea 15:45-16:45 Srinivas 2 17:00-18:00 Weber 1 18:30- Wine & Cheese (Club room 4th floor) Saturday: 9:30-10:30 Murre 3 coffee/tea 11:00-12:00 Srinivas 3 Lunch 14:00-15:00 Murre 4 coffee/tea 15:30-16:30 Srinivas 4 16:45-17:45 Weber 2 ATTENTION: On Thursday 27.10., J. Murre will give two lectures on preliminaries on motives IMPAN, room 403, 11:30-13:30 The notes from these lectures will be available on Friday before the session.