University of Durham --- Department of Mathematical Sciences

North British Geometric Group Theory Seminar

Wednesday 7th June 2006

Programme

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch in The Court Inn . This is located on Court Lane (see the map where Court Lane is about half way down on the right hand side).

Talks will be held in room CM221 in the Department of Mathematical Sciences

1:45 - 2:45 Javier Aramayona (Warwick) A simple criterion for non-relative hyperbolicity

3:00 - 4:00 Udo Baumgartner (Newcastle, Australia) A geometric perspective on totally disconnected, locally compact groups

4:15 - 5:15 Cormac Long (Southampton) A Trip into Coxeter's Menagerie

5:45 onwards Dinner in Shaheen's Indian Restaurant, North Bailey. Please e-mail John Parker if you want to come to dinner.