Prospects in Mathematics

Programme

Friday, January 9, 2009 (All talks will be in room CM 101)

9:15 - 9:30 Opening of the conference

9:30 - 10:30 Bill Lionheart, Manchester. Geometry and analysis to industrial applications

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break - room CM 105

11:00 - 12:00 Mark Pollicott, Warwick. Ergodic Theory: Going with the (geodesic) flow

13:00 Lunch at St. Mary`s College

14:00 - 15:00 Sofia Olhede, University College London. Brain Imaging and Beyond

15:15 - 16:15 Jens Funke, Durham. Quadratic forms, elliptic curves, and modular forms

16:15 - 16:45 Tea break - room CM 105

16:45 - 17:45 Tony Carbery, Edinburgh. Research in Analysis and PDEs - directions with a concrete flavour

19.00 Conference Dinner at St. Mary`s College

Saturday, January 10, 2009 (All talks will be in room CM 101)

9:30 - 10:30 Yiannis Petridis, University College London. Indefinite quadratic forms, closed geodesics and spectral geometry

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break - room CM 105

11:00 - 12:00 Stephen Donkin, York. Some unsolved problems in groups and representations

13:00 Lunch at St. Mary's College

14:00 - 14:30 Jacques Vanneste, Edinburgh. Survey of PhD funding

14:45 - 15:15 Coralia Cartis, Edinburgh. The Mathematics of Real-Life Optimization. Problems and Their Solution (abstract)

15:15 - 15:45 Jared Tanner, Edinburgh. The geometry of simplicity (abstract)

15:45 - 16:15 Tea break - room CM 105

16:15 - 17:15 Anne Taormina, Durham. Biology through the Mathematics microscope: new exciting directions of research

18.00 Dinner at St. Mary`s College