I would be interested in trying this, in the fields you mentioned. Other areas I would include would be neural networks and statistical inference. I don't have much formal background in these areas. I'm living in America, and am a senior in college. My strongest areas are math and physics. What kind of form did you have in mind for studying? I plan to read mostly textbooks. Would you want to read the same one, and compare work on the problems? Or would you want to try different textbooks, and tell each other what the material is like so we could more efficiently choose ones to study? Or something totally different?