Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Days

A Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Day will be held on Friday 18 January 2008 at the Durham University.

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 Frederic Bourgeois (Brussels)

"Contact homology and Legendrian surgery"

12:00 Lunch

1.30 Bruno Simoes (Lisbon)

"Twistor spaces, pluriharmonic maps and harmonic morphisms"

2.00 Femke Douma (Durham)

"Spherical averages on Regular and Semiregular Graphs"

2.45 Misha Belolipetsky (Durham)

"Finiteness theorems for arithmetic reflection groups"

3.45 Tea Break Mathematics Department Common Room (Room CM211)

4.15 Gil Cavalcanti (Oxford)

"Type changing generalized complex structures"

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 10 minutes and costs about £5. 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: