Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Days

A Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Day will be held on Friday 11 December 2009 at Durham University.

All talks will take place in CM 221 in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

The timetable is as follows:

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

11.00 Ian McIntosh (York)

"Taking stock of spectral curve methods in surface theory"

12:00 Lunch

1.30 Andy Hayden (Durham)

"Hyperbolic billiards in Teichmueller space"

2.00 Benjamin Thorpe (Durham)

"Long-time existence for spacelike mean curvature flow"

2.45 Neshan Wickramasekera (Cambridge)

"New developments in regularity theory for stable minimal hypersurfaces"

3.45 Tea Break Mathematics Department Common Room (Room CM211)

4.15 John C Wood (Leeds)

"Explicit constructions of harmonic maps in classical Lie groups and symmetric spaces"

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 £6. 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: