You are invited to the conference

Prospects in Mathematics

A Symposium for Potential Research Students in Pure Mathematics

To be held 15th-18th December 2005 at the
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Durham University
Sponsored by the Nuffield Foundation

The conference is to introduce high quality mathematics students to the many and varied opportunities for research in pure mathematics that exist in UK universities. The conference will involve two full days of lectures (on 16th/17th December) surveying different areas of modern pure mathematics and describing possible research projects. There also will be a lecture about different funding opportunities for postgraduate research training that exist in the UK.

Speakers

David Calderbank, York, Geometry and integrability
John Cremona, Nottingham, Explicit methods in Number Theory
Michael Dritschel, Newcastle, Sums of Squares
Bill Jackson, Queen Mary, University of London, Rigidity of Graphs
Norbert Peyerimhoff, Durham, Averaging and equidistribution problems in geometry
Michael Singer, Edinburgh, The geometry of nonlinear waves
Nina Snaith, Bristol, Every moment brings a treasure: how physicists came to the rescue of number theory
Patrick Dorey, Durham, Surprises in quantum mechanics
Neil Strickland, Sheffield, Cobordism, homotopy, and groups of formal power series
Farid Tari, Durham, Singularities and the imagination

Please click for the Programme.

List of Participants (Attendance is by invitation only)

We will reimburse the travel costs of the participants (up to the level of the second class return railfare) on production of receipts. Accommodation and meals will be provided free of charge and there will be a conference dinner on the 17th December. The participants will stay in St Mary's College, a few minutes walk from the Mathematics Department, where they will have many opportunities to interact both with their peers and with the speakers.

Organisers

If you have any questions please contact Professor M. Farber or Dr N. Peyerimhoff.