Prospects in Mathematics

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