Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Days

A Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Day will be held on Friday 12 January 2007 at the University of Durham.

All talks will take place in The Willmore Room (CM 221) in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

The timetable is as follows:

10:30 Coffee Mathematics Department Common Room (Room CM211)

11.00 Tim Perutz (Cambridge)

"Broken pencils and four-manifold invariants"

12:00 Lunch

1.30 Simon Donaldson (Imperial)

"Canonical metrics on Lie algebras, and other geometric structures"

2.45 Dmitri Alekseevsky (Edinburgh)

"Homogeneous bi-Lagrangian manifolds"

3.45 Tea Break Mathematics Department Common Room (Room CM211)

4.15 Luc Vrancken (Valenciennes)

"Lagrangian immersions in complex projective space with `smallest possible' mean curvature"

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: