A Spring Yorkshire Differential Geometry Day will be held on Friday April 19 at the University of York. The timetable will be as follows:

10.30 Coffee Room V131, Vanbrugh College

11.15 Steffen Krusch (Leeds) Joseph Rowntree Lecture Theatre

"Skyrmions and rational maps"

 

12.30 Lunch Derwent College

1.30 Jenya Ferapontov (Loughborough) Joseph Rowntree Lecture Theatre

"Surfaces in centroaffine geometry and equations of associativity"

 

2.40 Martin Svensson (Lund) Joseph Rowntree Lecture Theatre

"Walczak's formula, holomorphic foliations and harmonic morphisms"

 

3.45 Tea Break Room V131, Vanbrugh College

4.30 Alexei Kovalev (Cambridge) Joseph Rowntree Lecture Theatre

"Ricci-flat manifolds of special holonomy in six and seven dimensions"

The Joseph Rowntree Lecture Theatre (known, more prosaically, to most York staff as PL001) is located in the Physics/Electronics building, just across the lake from Vanbrugh College.

There will be an early evening meal in York for anyone who can stay on afterwards.

A PDF file of this schedule is also available.

Geography

Click here for a web-friendly map of the University of York main (Heslington) campus, which is where the meeting will be held. Vanbrugh College is building no. 27, the Physics/Electronics block is building no. 24, and Derwent College is building no. 23. (Room V131 is on the first floor of Vanbrugh College, and is in fact the Mathematics Department's tea/coffee room. If you have trouble finding it, ask at the porter's desk by the main entrance of Vanbrugh College.)

 

Car parking is available in just about any car park shown on the map, but be sure to feed the pay and display machine (£1). We will reimburse this charge. (However, we won't reimburse the cost of removing a wheel clamp!)

 

Click here for a map of the university in relation to the local main roads.

 

Click here for a map of the university in relation to the City of York, including the location of York railway station. The distance from the station to campus is about 1.5 miles. Bus no. 5 calls just outside the station and stops on University Road between buildings 8 and 9 on the campus map.

 

This meeting is the third Yorkshire Differential Geometry Day to be held during the 2001/02 academic year, organized by geometers at the Universities of Hull, Leeds and York. The local organizers are:

Yorkshire Differential Geometry Days are supported by a Scheme 3 grant from the London Mathematical Society.