Geometry and Topology Seminar
Past Seminars

The London University Topology Group organises a regular seminar, held for one semester each by KCL and QMW in turn.

The current seminars are listed here

A list of past seminars is available for:

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

Autumn 2000: The LSS winter meeting and the regular seminar series 

                 LONDON TOPOLOGY SEMINAR: Winter Meeting 2000

   An annual special winter meeting of this seminar is held jointly with
   the Universities of Sussex and Southampton. This year the meeting was 
   at KCL on Friday 8 December.  
                 
   2.00           Lawrence Reeves (Oxford) 
                 "A non-automatic free-by finite group"

   2.30           Martin Bridson (Oxford)  
                 "Automorphisms of free groups, Helley's theorem 
                  and Serre's property FA" (Abstract)

   3.15           Joan Porti (UA, Barcelona) 
                 "Geometrization of 3-orbifolds" (Abstract)

   4.15           Tea and biscuits 

   5.00           Brian Bowditch (Southampton)
                 "Ends of hyperbolic 3-manifolds" (Abstract)

   There was a Banquet for participants at a restaurant in Soho's
   Chinatown (6.30pm for 7).

Autumn 2000: This term the regular seminar series was held in IC and organised by Richard Thomas

 
Summer 2000:   The London-Sussex-Southampton Topology Meeting (Jun 23 - 24)  

The London-Sussex-Southampton Topology Meeting took place at the University of Southampton on the 23rd and 24th June 2000. The meeting formed part of the Southampton Frankfurt Workshop on Dessins d'Enfants.

The Workshop, held on 22nd, 26th and 27th June, was an informal meeting to discuss recent results and work in progress on dessins d'enfants and related topics.

Programme

Thursday 22 June

2.00    David Singerman, (Southampton) -
"The Riemann surface of a uniform dessin"
3.00    Bill Harvey, (King's College) -
"Dessins, families of curves and Lefschetz fibrations of 4-manifolds"
4.00   Tea
4.30    Gabino Gonzales-Diez, (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid) -
"The fundamental group at infinity of the moduli space of compact Riemann surfaces-manifolds"
Friday 23 June
2.00   Short Talks
3.00 Prof J Wolfart (Frankfurt) -
"Dessins d'enfants, a new meeting point of topology, complex analysis and algebra"
4.00   Tea
4.30 Dr John Crisp (Dijon) -
"The solution to Tits' conjecture on generators of Artin groups"
Friday Evening   Dinner at a local restaurant
Saturday 24 June
9.30 Dr C.J.B.Brookes (Cambridge) -
"Finitely presented groups"
10.30   Coffee
11.15 Dr Jens Harlander (Frankfurt) -
"On the asphericity of certain ribbon disc complements"
Monday 26 June
11.00    Juergen Wolfart, (Frankfurt) -
"Uniform dessins for cyclic projective planes"
2.00    Pablo Martin Garcia, (Southampton) -
"Footballs and Biplanes"
3.00    Milagros Izquierdo, (Vasteras) -
"The geometry of quadratic differentials"
Tuesday 27 June
11.00    Yolanda Fuertes, (Southampton and Autonoma, Madrid) -
"KFT surfaces and dessins"
2.00    Juergen Wolfart, (Frankfurt) -
"Uniform dessins for cyclic projective planes"
2.00    Juergen Wolfart, (Frankfurt) -
"Uniform dessins for cyclic projective planes"
2.00    Manfred Streit, (Frankfurt) -
"Regular hypermaps and the canonical model"
3.00    Gareth Jones, (Southampton) -
"Riemann surfaces with many automorphisms"

 
Autumn 1999: this term, the talks were held in KCL:

Dec 17  
Joint Topology Meeting at KCL
1.30 - 3.00   Room 27C Short Talks
1.30 - 1.55 Martin Bridson (Oxford) -
"Length functions, curvature and the dimension of discrete groups"
2.00 - 2.25 Luke Hodgkin (KCL) -
"K-theory of number rings"
2.30 - 2.55 Ian Leary (Soton) -
"Finiteness conditions for VF groups"
3.15 Room 2C Elmer Rees (Edinburgh) -
"Linear spaces of real matrices and singularities of polynomial maps"
4.15 Tea and biscuits
5.00 Room 2CAlan Reid (U. Texas, Austin) -
"The Bianchi groups are GFERF" - (abstract here).
EveningA banquet for participants in Chinatown

Dec   3   I Rivin   (Manchester)
Simple curves

Nov 26   KCL Colloquium:   S Popescu   

Nov 19   LMS AGM
J. Matousek, W.T. Gowers

Nov 12   KCL Colloquium:   W Hodges    (QMW)
  "Mathematics of Language and a question of Dedekind"

Nov   5   K. Vogtmann   (Cornell, visiting Oxford)
Phylogenetic Trees

Oct 29   KCL Colloquium:   A. Connes    (IHES)
  Renormalisation in QFT and the Riemann-Hilbert problem

Oct 22   Ivan Smith    ( Oxford )
Symplectic four-manifolds and the moduli space of curves. (Abstract)

Oct 15 & Oct 16   LMS meeting on new applications of twistors    held at UCL.
 
Friday Oct 15:
2.15 K P Tod
3.30 M G Eastwood
5.00 N J Hitchin   -   Hyperkahler geometry and integrable systems
Saturday Oct 16:
9.00S Merkulov
10.45L J Mason
12.00R Penrose

Oct  8   B. Marton    ( Sydney, Aus. )
Counting representations of a homology 3-sphere group   (Abstract)

Spring/Summer 1999: talks were held in both KCL and QMW:

Jun  16, 1999   D. McDuff    (SUNY, Stony Brook)
Quantum cohomology  -  Abstract  - Prof McDuff spoke at King's

Jun   4, 1999   Sussex/Southampton/London Topology meeting,
Location: Univ. of Sussex, Pevensey Building, room 1A1, organised by Dr Roger Fenn
For details, click here.

Mar  5, 1999   M.R. Bridson    (Oxford)
The symmetries of outer space (Dr. Bridson spoke at QMW).

Feb 19, 1999   R. Diaz    (Warwick)
On the space of dihedral angles of hyperbolic polyhedra  -  Abstract  -  Dr. Diaz spoke at King's.

Autumn 1998: the seminar was held on alternate Fridays in Room 436 of the KCL Maths department, and was organised by Dr. Bill Harvey (bill.harvey@kcl.ac.uk).

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