A Yorkshire Differential Geometry Day will be held on Wednesday 12 November 2003 at the University of York. The timetable is as follows:

12.30 Lunch Roger Kirk Centre (Goodricke College). Gather in foyer from 12.00 onwards.

1.30 Simon Donaldson (Imperial College) Room PL005 (Physics/Electronics)

"The scalar curvature of toric Kahler manifolds"

 

2.40 Jurgen Berndt (Hull) Room PL005 (Physics/Electronics)

"Projective planes, Severi varieties and spheres"

 

3.45 Tea Break Mathematics Department Common Room (Room G109, Goodricke College)

4.30 Mario Micallef (Warwick) Room PL005 (Physics/Electronics)

"Minimizing areas in K3"

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

Click here for a PDF file of the schedule.

Geography

Click here for a web-friendly map of the University of York main (Heslington) campus, which is where the meeting will be held. Goodricke College is building no. 24, and houses the Mathematics Department (now the sole academic tenant). The Roger Kirk Centre is the newly opened amenity building for the college. Physics/Electronics is building no. 14, adjacent to Goodricke College, and room PL005 is a large teaching room on the ground floor situated towards the far end (walking from Goodricke). If you have trouble finding any of these venues, ask at Goodricke porter's desk, or the information desk in Physics.

 

Click here for a campus map highlighting all the car parks. Parking is available in any of the four General Car Parks (North, South, West or Central), of which South is most convenient, but be sure to feed the Pay and Display machine: £2 for a full day's parking. 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. 4 (the Turquoise Line) calls just outside the station and stops on University Road under the bridge connecting buildings 8 (Library) and 9 (Computer Services) on the campus map; it runs every 10 minutes.

 

This meeting is the first Yorkshire Differential Geometry Day to be held during the 2003/04 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.