University of Durham --- Department of Mathematical Sciences

Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Days

A Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Day will be held on Wednesday 5 October 2005 at the University of Durham.

This will be a special day in honour of

Professor Tom Willmore

who was professor of mathematics at Durham from 1965 to his retirement in 1984. There will be a short ceremony at lunchtime during which Room CM 221 in the department will be named after Tom.

All talks will take place in the above room.

The timetable is as follows:

11.00 Frederic Helein (Paris 7)

"Hamiltonian stationary Lagrangian surfaces in four-dimensional Hermitian symmetric spaces and generalizations"

12:00 Buffet lunch Mathematics Department Common Room (Room CM211)

1.10 Ceremony in honour of Prof Tom Willmore.

1.30 Francisco Urbano (Granada)

"Contributions of the Granada team to the Willmore conjecture and Willmore surfaces"

2.45 Fran Burstall (Bath)

"Transformations of Willmore surfaces"

3.45 Tea Break Mathematics Department Common Room (Room CM211)

4.15 Ulrich Pinkall (TU Berlin)

"Constrained Willmore surfaces"

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. A record of previous meetings may be found here

The local organizers are:

John Bolton & Wilhelm Klingenberg, University of Durham

Martin Speight & John C Wood, University of Leeds

Ian McIntosh & Chris Wood, University of York