Programme
Friday,
December 16, 2005 (All talks will be in room CM 101)
9.00
- 9.10 Opening of the conference
9.10 - 10.00 Michael Dritschel, Newcastle, Sums of Squares
10.10 - 11.00 Bill Jackson, London, Rigidity of Graphs
11.00 - 11.20 Coffee break - room CM 103
11.20 - 12.10 Patrick Dorey, Durham, Surprises in quantum mechanics
12.20 -12.50 Frank Coolen, Durham, Survey of PhD funding
13.00 Lunch at St. Mary`s College
15.05 - 15.55 Nina Snaith, Bristol, Every moment brings a treasure: how physicists came to the rescue of number theory
15.55 - 16.30 Tea break - room CM 103
16.30 - 17. 20 David Calderbank, York, Geometry and integrability
19.00 Dinner at St. Mary`s College
Saturday, December 17, 2005 (All talks will be in room CM 101)
9.05 - 9.55 Michael Singer, Edinburgh, The geometry of nonlinear waves
10.05 - 10.55 John Cremona, Nottingham, Explicit methods in Number Theory
10.55 - 11.25 Coffee break - room CM 103
11.25 - 12.15
Norbert Peyerimhoff, Durham, Averaging and equidistribution
problems in geometry
13.00 Lunch at St. Mary`s
College
15.05 - 15.55 Neil Strickland, Sheffield, Cobordism,
homotopy, and groups of formal power series
15.55 -
16.30 Tea break - room CM 103
16.30 - 17. 20 Farid Tari,
Durham, Singularities and the imagination
18.00
Conference dinner at Collingwood College