Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Days

A Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Day will be held on Wednesday 6 October 2004 at the University of Durham.

All talks will take place in Room CM 221 in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

The timetable is as follows:

11.00 Farid Tari (Durham)

"The geometry of singular surfaces"

 

1.30 Norbert Peyerimhoff (Durham)

"Spherical means on nonpositively curved manifolds"

 

2.45 Ivan Smith (Cambridge)

"Knots and the adjoint quotient"

 

3.45 Tea Break Mathematics Department Common Room (Room CM211)

4.15 Chris Wood (York)

"Harmonic sections of vector bundles with non-Euclidean fibres"

There will be an early evening meal in Durham, for all who are able to stay.

Travel: Durham is easy to get to by car and train. Click here for relevant information.

A taxi from Durham station takes about 5 minutes and costs about £3. If you intend to drive to Durham, please inform one of the Durham organisers, who will arrange for a car parking permit for you.

Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Days are jointly organised by the Universities of Durham, Leeds and York, and occur at a frequency of four meetings per academic year. Financial support is provided by the London Mathematical Society through a Scheme 3 grant, currently administered by the University of York.

The local organizers are: