London Mathematical Society
Northern Regional Meeting and Workshop

School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Newcastle

29th June - 2nd July 2004

The London Mathematical Society Northern regional meeting will be held on Friday July 2nd 2004 in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University. This is a non-specialist meeting and the talks are intended for a general mathematical audience.

The meeting will be preceded by a workshop on Geometric Group Theory, with emphasis on formal languages, logic and equations, from Tuesday 29th June till the Thursday 1st July.

Postgraduate participants may also be interested in the pure mathematics postgraduates meeting on Monday 28th June.

Speakers

Northern Regional Meeting, 2nd July

Workshop, 29th June - 1st July

Schedule

The Workshop will begin on Tuesday 29th June in the morning and finish on Thursday 1st July in the afternoon. There will be a civic reception on Thursday evening. The Meeting will be held in the afternoon of Friday 2nd July and will be followed by dinner. For more details see the programme and the list of confirmed participants.

Accommodation

University accommodation is available in the halls of residences at Castle Leazes. You can book these rooms on the registration form below, while stocks last, but bookings will only be confirmed if we receive your deposit by 29th May 2004.

If you prefer to arrange your own accommodation off campus there are many hotels and guest houses, near the university, which you can contact using Michael Dritschel's extensive list. The hotels we are recommending for this conference are the Cairn and the New Northumbria.

Conference dinner

There will be a conference dinner following the LMS Northern Regional Meeting on 2nd July: book on the registration form below. The dinner will be held at 7 pm in The Sovereign Suite, The Assembly Rooms, Fenkle Street, near Central Station: about 15 minutes walk from the University. The bar will open at 6:30 pm. Here is a map you may wish to print. Here is another one. Fenkle Street is at the very bottom.

Registration

There is no registration fee for the LMS Northern Regional Meeting on 2nd July.

There is a £15 registration fee for the Workshop from 29th June to 1st July.

Please register by

• filling in this form as soon as possible, if you wish to reserve accommodation in Castle Leazes, or
• filling in this form if you are arranging your own accommodation.

Funding

There are limited funds available to LMS members and PhD. students to attend the meeting on 2nd July: apply direct to the LMS.

Travel information

Contacts

To contact the conference organisers:
Email: lms.north@ncl.ac.uk or FAX: (0 or +44) 191 222 8020