North British Geometric Group Theory Seminar

    This is a collaborative seminar, now in its sixth year, and funded by grants from the London and Edinburgh Mathematical Societies and the Glasgow Mathematical Journal. It involves geometric group theorists from Heriot-Watt, Glasgow, Newcastle, Durham, York, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and Leicester, and meets three times a year.

    In 2010,11 we met on December 8th 2010 at the ICMS in Edinburgh. then in Durham and Newcastle.

    In 2009,10 we met in Glasgow on 25th November 2009, then on March 10th 2010 in York. and on July 7th Nottingham. and LMS Northern Meeting 2010 was in Newcastle in April, with a workshop on a geometric group theory theme.

    In 2008,9 we met in York on 3rd December 2008, in Nottingham on 29th April 2009, and in Newcastle on 13th July 2009.

    In 2007,8. we met in Manchester on 31st October 2007. in Leeds on 30th April 2008. and then in Newcastle on 2nd July 2008.

    In 2006,7 we met in Edinburgh on 10th March 2006,. in York on 7th March 2007, . in Glasgow on 13th June 2007 .

    In 005,6 we met in Edinburgh on 23rd November 2005 in Nottingham on 22nd March, in Durham on June 7th, and then in Newcastle on July 19th.

    The meetings for 2004,5 were in York on Wednesday 8th December 2004 , in Durham on 23rd February 2005 and Newcastle on Friday 13th May 2005.

    In 2003,4 the seminar met in York on Wednesday 19th November 2003 in Edinburgh on Wednesday 25th February 2004 .

    and in Nottingham on Wednesday 19th May 2004, as follows:-

    • 1.00 Coffee at or near Maths/Physics building
    • 1.45 Alexandre Borovik (Manchester) `Genetic algorithms in computational group theory.'
    • 3.00 Don Collins (London) `Intersections of Magnus subgroups of one-relator groups'
    • 4.00 Tea/Coffee break
    • 4.30 Graham Niblo (Southampton) `Exactness and Hilbert space compression for discrete groups'
    • Early evening meal in Nottingham restaurant.

    Then in July 2004 the LMS northern meeting took place in Newcastle, with Geometric Group Theory as its theme, and Gromov and Grigorchuk as speakers.

    Details are available from Sarah Rees, Sarah.Rees@ncl.ac.uk or Andrew Duncan A.Duncan@ncl.ac.uk