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MEETINGS Contents LMS Midlands Regional Meeting LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY MIDLANDS REGIONAL MEETING Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester
PhD students are invited to make poster demonstrations of their work for display at the meeting. Springer will donate a prize of the value of £100.00 in books for the best poster. Let the organisers Frank Neumann (fn8@mcs.le.ac.uk) or Joshua Scott (js262@mcs.le.ac.uk) know if you would like to submit a poster. For further details or to reserve a place at the dinner, contact the organisers or visit the website www.math.le.ac.uk. The meeting will be followed by a workshop from 16-18 May on Teichmüller Theory and Cluster Algebras exploring connections recently emerging between cluster algebras and the theory of decorated Teichmüller spaces and related moduli spaces. Visit www.math.le.ac.uk for further information. There are limited funds available to contribute in part to the expenses of members of the Society or research students to attend the Society meeting on Monday 15 May. Requests for support, including an estimate of expenses, may be addressed to the Programme Secretary at the Society (web: www.lms.ac.uk; email: grants@lms.ac.uk). LMS NORTHERN REGIONAL MEETING University of Leeds U. Haagerup N.J. Kalton For further details, see the website www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/pure/analysis/lms or contact H.G. Dales (garth@maths.leeds.ac.uk). WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS DAY 2006 The next Women in Mathematics Day will be held on 28 April at De Morgan House. Talks will begin at 11 am, after half an hour for coffee, and the day will end at 4.30 pm, followed by a meal at a nearby restaurant. While this is an occasion particularly for women active in mathematics to get together, men are certainly not excluded. Sessions will include talks by practising women mathematicians in a variety of appointments and at different career stages. One aim of the day is to encourage women approaching the various interfaces – undergraduate/postgraduate, PhD/postdoc and so on – to stay in mathematics; we hope that an opportunity to see women who are active and successful in mathematics, and to meet them informally over lunch, tea etc will have a positive effect on this problem. Feedback from previous meetings has shown that this is one of the aspects of the Women in Mathematics Days that participants say has made a difference to them. The organisers would be very grateful if all members could encourage women mathematicians, particularly students (including final year undergraduates) and those at an early stage in their career, to attend this meeting. Anyone interested in giving a postgraduate talk should contact Malwina Luczak (m.j.luczak@lse.ac.uk). Programme
Followed by an early supper for those able to stay. Limited funds are available to help with the travel costs of students attending the event. Further details are available from Isabelle Robinson at the Society (contact details below). To register please contact Isabelle Robinson, Administrative Officer, (tel: 020 7291 9979, fax: 020 7291 9978, email: robinson@lms.ac.uk). The day is free for students and £5 for all others – payable on the day. SET THEORY AND ANALYSIS There will be a one-day meeting on Set Theory and Analysis on Wednesday 15 March at the Department of Mathematics, University College, Gordon Street, London WC1, as part of the series Set theory and its neighbours and partially supported by ‘Cameleon’. The first talk will be at 11 am. (This is half an hour earlier than previous STN meetings. Please also note the new venue.) The speakers will include:
Further information is available via the webpage: www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucahcjm/stn.html, or from Charles Morgan (charles.morgan@ucl.ac.uk). We hope to keep the meetings fairly relaxed, allowing plenty of opportunity for informal discussion. We welcome and encourage anyone to participate. There may be some financial support for graduate students – contact Charles Morgan for details. We are very grateful to UCL Mathematics Department for allowing us to host the meeting there, and to the LMS for financial support. Charles Morgan & Mirna D OWL MEETING The joint Oxford-Warwick-London (OWL) seminar on Combinatorics and Statistical Physics will meet at the University of Warwick on Wednesday 3 May. The speakers will be Martin Dyer (Leeds), Fabio Martinelli (Rome) and Boguslaw Zegarlinski (Imperial). All are welcome, and we can provide some financial support for students to attend. This event is part of an Oxford-Warwick-London Series supported by the London Mathematical Society and the British Combinatorial Committee. The first meeting of the series was at QMUL on Friday 12 November, and the second was in Oxford on 7 February. For more information, contact Leslie Goldberg (leslie.goldberg@dcs.warwick.ac.uk) or see the webpage (www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/people/academic/Leslie.Goldberg/owl.html). SPECTRAL THEORY AND HARMONIC ANALYSIS A workshop on Spectral Theory and Harmonic Analysis will take place on 16 March at the School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham. This one-day event is funded in part by the LMS Scheme 3 grant The UK Harmonic Analysis and PDEs Research Network. The speakers are:
The first lecture will begin at 10am. It is suggested that where possible participants arrive in the early evening of the 15th (Wednesday) in time for dinner at about 7.30pm. Limited financial support is available for PhD students, and postdoctoral researchers. For further details contact Jonathan Bennett (J.Bennett@bham.ac.uk) or visit the website http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/analysisworkshop. COMBINATORICS AT OXFORD A one-day meeting in Combinatorics will be held in Oxford on Wednesday 15 March. The meeting will take place in the Mathematical Institute, with talks starting at 11.00 am and coffee available beforehand from 10.30am. This year's speakers will be Peter Cameron (QMUL), Alan Frieze (Carnegie Mellon), Bert Gerards (CWI Amsterdam), Marc Noy (Univ. Politécnica de Catalunya) and Angelika Steger (ETH Zürich). Anyone interested is welcome to attend. Some funds may be available to contribute to the expenses of research students who wish to attend the meeting. Further details can be obtained from Alex Scott (scott@maths.ox.ac.uk) or from the web page at www.maths.ox.ac.uk/combinatorics. Support for this event from the London Mathematical Society and the British Combinatorial Committee is gratefully acknowledged. CATEGORY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS A Conference in Memory of Saunders MacLane A conference in memory of Saunders MacLane will be held at the University of Chicago from 7-11 April. A number of MacLane's students, colleagues, collaborators, and friends will speak during the conference. Its primary mathematical focus will be recent applications of category theory. As MacLane’s book Categories for the working mathematician emphasized, he was interested both in the internal development of category theory and in its development with a view towards applications in other areas of mathematics. The conference will highlight recent work that introduces new category theory aimed directly at applications in differential geometry (and hence to mathematical physics) and in algebraic topology. As Saunders would very much have liked, most of the speakers will be young mathematicians actively engaged in just such research.
For further details about the conference visit the website www.math.uchicago.edu/~may/MACLANE. The conference organizers are Peter May and Eugenia Cheng. For information about lodging, travel, and registration see www.math.uchicago.edu/~eugenia/maclane. GROUPS IN GALWAY The annual conference Groups in Galway will be held at National University of Ireland, Galway, 19-20 May. The scope of the conference covers all areas of group theory, applications, and related fields. The following is a provisional list of speakers:
All who are interested are invited to attend. Details of the talks and their scheduling will be posted at www.maths.nuigalway.ie/gig06.html closer to the event. This year the conference will feature a poster session. Postgraduate students who attend are invited to submit posters for inclusion in the session. For further information, please contact one of the conference organizers, Rachel Quinlan (rachel.quinlan@nuigalway.ie) or Dane Flannery (dane.flannery@nuigalway.ie). INVERSE PROBLEMS WORKSHOP An Inverse Problems Workshop will be held in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Liverpool on Monday 20 March. The programme is as follows:
For further details contact Ke Chen, Dept of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZL (tel: 0151 794 4741, email: k.chen@liverpool.ac.uk). The meeting is jointly supported by the LMS and the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool. NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND APPLICATIONS A conference on Recent Advances in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications will be held on 7-11 June in Toledo, Spain. This event, organized with the cooperation of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS), is held in honour of Peter D. Lax and Louis Nirenberg, on the occasion of their 80th birthdays. The conference focuses on the modern theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications. Topics such as conservation laws, transonic flows, relativistic flows, formation of singularities, turbulence, dispersive waves, the ocean-atmosphere system and climate modes, combustion, materials science, brain spatiotemporal dynamics and others, as well as the functional analytic approach to nonlinear PDE stand in the foreground and offer important challenges to be addressed at this conference. Confirmed speakers are:
Information on how to participate, register and more, is available at www.mat.ucm.es/~ln06. Deadline for early registration is 31 March. For more information email ln06@mat.ucm.es. CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF J.C. MCCONNELL AND J.C. ROBSON There will be a meeting at the Mathematics Department of the University of Leeds from 5-6 May to mark the retirals of John McConnell and Chris Robson. The invited speakers and the titles of their talks are as follows:
The conference will start at 2.00 on Friday 5 May and end at 12.30 on 6 May, with a conference dinner on the Friday evening. Further details may be obtained from the web page www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~pmtwc/ringtheory/ or from the organisers, who are Ken Brown (kab@maths.gla.ac.uk), Bill Crawley-Boevey (w.crawley-boevey@leeds.ac.uk), Tom Lenagan (tom@maths.ed.ac.uk) and Toby Stafford (jts@umich.edu). Financial support has been provided by the Edinburgh and London Mathematical Societies, the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Research Support Fund and the University of Leeds. THE FIELDS INSTITUTE Geometric Applications of Homotopy Theory 1 January – 30 June 2007: organisers: Rick Jardine (Western Ontario), Gunnar Carlsson (Stanford), Dan Christensen (Western Ontario). Workshops:
Visit www.fields.utoronto.ca for details and application procedures. ISAAC NEWTON INSITUTE Noncommutative Geometry 24 July – 22 December 2006: organisers: A. Connes (IHES), S. Majid, (Queen Mary), A. Schwarz (UC Davis) Workshops:
Please refer to the website www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/NCG/ for full details on how to apply for these workshops. 58TH BRITISH MATHEMATICAL COLLOQUIUM Second Announcement The 58th British Mathematical Colloquium will be held at the University of Newcastle, from 1pm on Monday 10 April till 1pm on Thursday 13 April 2006. Plenary speakers:
Morning speakers include:
Analysis and Geometry on Groups special session
Operator Theory special session
Public Lecture David Acheson (Oxford) In addition, there are splinter groups being organised allowing for contributed talks in the following areas:
Suggestions for further splinter groups are welcome (email bmc06@ncl.ac.uk). To register, book accommodation, apply to give a splinter group talk, an email address must be entered on www.ncl.ac.uk/bmc06. University accommodation can be booked if it is available. Limited funds are available to support attendance of PhD students at the BMC. The conference gratefully acknowledges the support of the London Mathematical Society, the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the SAgE Faculty Research Committee of Newcastle University, Newcastle City Council, Cambridge University Press and Springer Verlag.
LMS/EPSRC Short Course University of Warwick, 10–14 July 2006 Organisers: Dr S. Nazarenko & Dr O. Zaboronski Methods of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics play an increasingly important role in modern turbulence research. Unfortunately, the range of relevant tools and methods of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics is so wide and they are developing so fast that there is not a single text book covering the subject. The goal of this Short Course is to rectify the situation by giving an introduction to modern methods of statistical mechanics in turbulence. The Course will be given in parallel with an international workshop devoted to the same subject, and will aim to prepare graduate students and young researchers for this workshop. Three world class experts in statistical physics and turbulence have kindly agreed to teach at the School and will give the following lectures:
Lectures will be accompanied by daily example classes led by specialists in the field. To help participants to prepare for the Course, each lecturer is compiling a reading list for his course. As soon as the lists are ready, they will be available on the course website at: www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/%7esnazar/turb_symp/WTS.html. The registration fee to attend is £100. The accommodation costs for all UK-based research students are covered by EPSRC. Participants must pay their own travel costs. EPSRC-supported students can expect that their registration fees and travel costs will be met by their departments from the EPSRC Doctoral Training Account. Postdocs and non-UK students will be required to pay their own subsistence costs and the registration fee (£388 in total). Application forms may be obtained from Isabelle Robinson, Administrative Officer, London Mathematical Society (email: robinson@lms.ac.uk, tel: 020 7291 9979, fax: 020 7291 9978) or an on-line form is available on the LMS website: www.lms.ac.uk/activities/research_meet_com/short_course/30_poster.html. Numbers will be limited and those interested are advised to make an early application. The closing date for applications is Friday 26 May 2006. All applicants will be contacted by the London Mathematical Society approximately one week after this deadline; we will not be able to give information about individual applications before then. Please do not send any money until we ask.
LMS/EPSRC Short Course Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 4–9 September 2006 Organisers: Professor Serguei Foss & Dr Takis Konstantopoulos This course provides an overview on three important topics in modern probability theory. The lectures will be supported by tutorial classes. The course lecturers are:
Two guest lectures will be given by:
The course is aimed at mathematics and statistics postgraduate students and students from closely related fields (theoretical computer science, physics, etc), who are interested in any area that requires a knowledge of asymptotic and coupling methods of probability theory. Postdocs and young researchers are also welcome to attend. It assumes familiarity with elements of probability theory, including basic limit theorems, Markov chains and elements of stochastic processes. For further information, see: www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~takis/probcourse06. The registration fee to attend is £100. The accommodation costs for all UK-based research students are covered by EPSRC. Participants must pay their own travel costs. EPSRC-supported students can expect that their registration fees and travel costs will be met by their departments from the EPSRC Doctoral Training Account. Postdocs and non-UK students will be required to pay their own subsistence costs and the registration fee (£400 in total). Application forms may be obtained from Isabelle Robinson, Administrative Officer, London Mathematical Society (email: robinson@lms.ac.uk, tel: 020 7291 9979, fax: 020 7291 9978) or an on-line form is available on the LMS website: www.lms.ac.uk/activities/research_meet_com/short_course/32_poster.html. Numbers will be limited and those interested are advised to make an early application. The closing date for applications is Friday 7 July 2006. All applicants will be contacted by the London Mathematical Society approximately one week after this deadline; we will not be able to give information about individual applications before then. Please do not send any money until we ask. ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY AND CYCLIC COHOMOLOGY 31 July – 4 August 2006 in association with the Newton Institute programme entitled Noncommutative Geometry (24 July to 22 December 2006) Organisers: Alain Connes, Shahn Majid and Albert Schwarz. Theme of conference: This first workshop will focus on the mathematics of noncommutative differential geometry, centered on cyclic cohomology. Current trends to be covered include:
Invited speakers: (to be confirmed): P. Baum, A. Connes, C. Consani, N. Higson, M. Karoubi, M. Khalkhali, M. Kontsevich, G. Landi, M. Marcolli, H. Moscovici, R. Nest, R. Plymen, J. Roe, G. Segal, B. Tsygan, M. Wodzicki, G. Yu. Location and cost: The conference will take place at the Newton Institute and accommodation for participants will be provided in single study bedrooms with shared bathroom at Wolfson Court. The conference package, costing £480, includes accommodation, breakfast and dinner from dinner on Sunday 30 July 2006 to breakfast on Saturday 5 August 2006, and lunch and refreshments during the days that lectures take place. Participants who wish to attend but do not require the Conference Package will be charged a registration fee of £40. Self-supporting participants are very welcome to apply. Further information and application forms are available from the web at: www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/NCG/ncgw01.html. Completed application forms should be sent to Tracey Andrew, Programme & Conference Secretary, Isaac Newton Institute, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge CB3 0EH or via email to: t.andrew@newton.cam.ac.uk. Closing date for the receipt of applications is 28 April 2006.
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amonja (UEA, Norwich)
Methods of non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
in Turbulence