North British Geometric Group Theory Seminar

    The North British Geometric Group Theory Seminar will meet on Monday 13th July at the University of Newcastle.

    The meeting will run from lunch until an early dinner. Speakers will be Francesco Matucci (Barcelona), Claas Röver (Galway), Tara Brendle (Glasgow).

    • 12-00 onwards. Informal lunch in Courtyard Restaurant on campus (Old Library Building, facing Merz Court, former home of the School of Mathematics and Statistics). The lectures will then take place in room TR2, on the fourth floor of the Herschel Building (current home of the School of Mathematics and Statistics)..
    • 13-30 Francesco Matucci (Barcelona), The conjugacy problem in extensions of Thompson's group
    • 14-30 Claas Röver (Galway), Languages in group theory.
    • 15-30 to 16-00 Tea in Herschel Building Penthouse (7th floor).
    • 16-00 Tara Brendle (Glasgow), The symmetric Torelli group.
    • 18-00. Dinner in local restaurant, probably La Toscana, an Italian restaurant we have used before, which is between the university and the railway station.
    Please contact me (Sarah.Rees at newcastle dot ac dot uk), to let me know in advance if you will attend, and in particular if you plan to attend the dinner, to allow us to book dinner and order tea and coffee.

    Hope to see you soon! Sarah This meeting is funded by grants by the London and Edinburgh Mathematical Societies and by the Glagow Mathematical Journal, and with support from the University of Newcastle.