Yorkshire Durham Geometry Days
2012
The Programme
11.00 Coffee/Tea
Mathematics Coffee Room, G109, James College
11.30 Chris Wood (York)
Harmonic vector fields on space forms
W222, Wentworth College
12.30 Lunch
Edge, Wentworth College
1.30 Norbert Peyerimhoff (Durham)
Geometric and analytic properties of noncompact harmonic spaces
PL002, Physics
2.40 Aleksandra Borowka (Bath)
A generalized Felix-Kaledin construction for quaternionic manifolds
PL002, Physics
3.45 Tea/Coffee
G109, James College
4.30 Alexey Bolsinov (Loughborough)
New holonomy groups in pseudo-Riemannian geometry,
and integrable systems on Lie algebras
PL002, Physics
All are welcome, and there will be an early evening meal in York for those able to stay.
A PDF file of the programme is available here.
Geography
Click here for
a map of the University of York main (Heslington West) campus, which is
where the meeting will be held. The Mathematics Department is
situated in James College (formerly known as Goodricke College), and
G109 is on the first floor. (Caution:
Goodricke College still exists, but has migrated to the new Heslington
East campus. Do not go there!) Room W222 is a teaching room
somewhat obscurely located on the second floor of Wentworth College,
which is situated just across the lake from James. Room PL002 is a
lecture theatre in the Physics Department, adjacent to James. If
you have trouble finding these venues, please ask at the Mathematics
Department Office, or James College Reception.
Parking
is available in any of the four General Car Parks (North, South, West
or Central), of which South usually has most spaces, and is conveniently
located. Be sure to feed the Pay and Display machine: £6 for the
day. We will endeavour to 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. Buses no. 4 (operated by First York) and 44 (operated by York Pullman, and branded as “Unibus”) call just outside the station and stop on University Road under the bridge connecting the University Library to Vanbrugh College; the bus stop is called “Morrell Library”. Both buses run “at frequent intervals” (in practice, every 10-15 minutes) and a return ticket to the university costs £2. Taxis are also available from the station, and cost between £5 and £8. Walking is a cheap and healthy alternative, at the risk of getting lost in York city centre!
Generalities
Yorkshire Durham Geometry
Days are organised by geometers at the Universities of Durham, Leeds and
York, with support from the London Mathematical Society (Scheme
3). The local organisers are:
Wilhelm Klingenberg, University of Durham
John C Wood, University of Leeds
Ian McIntosh & Chris Wood, University of York
