York, December 3

1. ‣ Click here for a web-friendly map of the University of York main (Heslington) campus. The Mathematics department is located in Goodricke College near the center-left of the map. The Roger Kirk Centre, adjacent, is the amenity building for the college. The talks will be in the Exhibition Centre to the right of Goodricke.
   

The map also highlights the car parks. Parking is available in any of the four General Car Parks (North, South, West or Central), of which South is most convenient, but be sure to feed the Pay and Display machine: £2 (or thereabouts) for a full day's parking.

1. ‣ Click here for a map of the university in relation to the local main roads.
   

1. ‣ 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. The bus you want is the FTR (the long purple bendy bus) which stops just outside the station. Get off on  University Road under the bridge connecting the J B Morrell Library. It runs every 10 minutes and costs £1.80 for a single and £3.90 return.
   

This meeting is partially supported by a Scheme 3 grant from the London Mathematical Society, and grants from the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, the Glasgow Mathematical Journal and the University of York.

12.00 Lunch Roger Kirk Centre (Goodricke College). Gather in foyer from 11.45 onwards.

1.00 Sarah Rees (Newcastle) Room P/T/006 (Exhibition Centre)

        Fitting the conjugacy problem into the Chomsky hierarchy

2.00 Tea Break (Room G109, Goodricke College)

3.20 Eddy Godelle (Caen) Room P/T/006

        Representations of braids as free group automorphisms

4.20 Meinholf Geck (Aberdeen) Room P/T/006

        Finiteness properties of Kazhdan-Lusztig cells in Coxeter groups

(the long tea break is to allow people to attend the York colloquium)

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