A Spring North British Geometric Group Theory Seminar will be held on Wednesday March 7 at the University of York. The timetable will be as follows:

From 12.15 Lunch Wentworth College

1.30 Gerhard Roehrle (Southampton) Lecture Room V120

"Rational points on generalized flag varieties and unipotent conjugacy in finite groups of Lie type"

 

2.40 Robert Bieri (Frankfurt) Lecture Room V120

"Pushing skeletons to infinity."

 

3.45 Tea Break Senior Common Room (SCR) , Goodricke College

4.30 Markus Lohrey (Stuttgart) Lecture Room V120

"The submonoid and rational subset membership problems for graph groups (joint work with Benjamin Steinberg)." ABSTRACT

 

There will be an early evening meal in York for anyone who can stay on afterwards.

Geography

Click here for a web-friendly map of the University of York main (Heslington) campus, which is where the meeting will be held. Vanbrugh College is building no. 27. (Room V120 is on the first floor of Vanbrugh College.)

 

Car parking is available in just about any car park shown on the map, but be sure to feed the pay and display machine (£1). We will reimburse this charge. (However, we won't 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 calls just outside the station and stops on University Road between buildings 8 and 9 on the campus map.

 

This is the second meeting of North British Geometric Group Theory Seminar to be held during the 2006/07 academic year, organized at the Universities of Glasgow, Newcastle and York. The local organizers are:

The North British Geometric Group Theory Seminar is supported by a Scheme 3 grant from the London Mathematical Society.