The inaugural meeting of the North Eastern Geometric Group Theory network will be held on Wednesday 19 November 2003 at the University of York.

The timetable is as follows:

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

1.00 Ilya Kazatchkov (Omsk) Room BB103 (Biology)

"Algebraic geometry over groups: logical foundations"

 

2.15 Ian Leary (Southampton) Room BB103 (Biology)

"An Introduction to L^2-Cohomology"

 

3.15 Tea Break Mathematics Department Common Room (Room G109, Goodricke College)

4.00 Martin Bridson (Imperial) Room BB103 (Biology)

"Grothendieck's Problems Concerning Profinite Completions and Representations of Groups"

There will be an early evening meal in York, for all who are able to stay.

Geography

Click here for a web-friendly map of the University of York main (Heslington) campus, which is where the meeting will be held. Goodricke College is building no. 24, and houses the Mathematics Department (now the sole academic tenant). The Roger Kirk Centre is the newly opened amenity building for the college. To get to Biology from Goodrick College, cross the lake on the bridge that is almost vertical (on the map!), turn left on the otherside and head towards number 17. You will pass through a building, down a long corridor. Half way down, turn left again and proceed to the first floor. If you have trouble finding any of these venues, ask at Goodricke porter's desk, or the information desk in Biology.

 

Click here for a campus map highlighting all 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 for a full day's parking. We will reimburse this charge. (Unfortunately, we don't have the resources to 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. Bus no. 4 (the Turquoise Line) calls just outside the station and stops on University Road under the bridge connecting buildings 8 (Library) and 9 (Computer Services) on the campus map; it runs every 10 minutes.

 

This meeting is the first in the North Eastern Geometric Group Theory Network, organized by group theorists at the Universities of Nottingham, Leeds, York, Durham, Newcastle and Heriot-Watt, and partially supported by a Scheme 3 grant from the London Mathematical Society. The Mastermind is Sarah Rees. The local organisers are