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MEETINGS Contents
LMS Mary Cartwright Meeting LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY MARY CARTWRIGHT MEETING Friday 27 February 2009 Clore Lecture Theatre, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London
A reception and dinner will be held after the meeting. Contact Susan Oakes (susan.oakes@lms.ac.uk) for further information. There are limited funds available to contribute in part to the expenses of members of the Society or research students to attend the meeting. Contact Isabelle Robinson (isabelle.robinson@lms.ac.uk) for further information. LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY NORTHERN REGIONAL MEETING Room G107, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester Wednesday 14 January 2009
These lectures are aimed at a general mathematical audience. All interested, whether LMS members or not, are most welcome to attend this event. For further details, to register or to reserve a place at the dinner, email magic@maths.manchester.ac.uk. The cost of the dinner will be approximately £25 including drinks. The meeting is preceded by the postgraduate student conference MAGIC09 from Monday 12 January to mid-day on Wednesday 14 January. For further details visit www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~magic or contact the organisers Dr Marianne Johnson, Dr Andrew Hazel, Gemma Lloyd, Hadi Zare at magic@maths.manchester.ac.uk. Lunch will be provided on Wednesday for delegates of the MAGIC09 conference. This lunch is also open to everyone attending the meeting. There are funds available to contribute in part to the expenses of members of the Society or research students to attend the meeting and workshop. Requests for support, including an estimate of expenses, may be addressed to Marianne Johnson (email above). LMS INVITED LECTURES Professor A.D. Ionescu 31 March – 4 April 2009 The 2009 LMS Invited Lectures will be given by Professor A. Ionescu (University of Wisconsin, Madison) on Black holes in vacuum: examples and uniqueness properties. The Lectures will take place at the University of Edinburgh from 31 March to 4 April 2009. For further information contact Jim Wright (J.R.Wright@ed.ac.uk) . 
MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF COLLECTIVE DYNAMICS IN BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION An international conference and LMS workshop on Mathematical Models of Collective Dynamics in Biology and Evolution (MDBE’09) will take place at the University of Leicester from 11 to 13 May 2009 organised by Sergei Petrovskii (Leicester). The conference will address the challenges that have risen from the recent development in life sciences, especially in cancer modelling and other collective dynamics such as population dynamics, ecology and epidemiology, and in the theory of evolution. The goal of the meeting is to make a synopsis of the most important recent findings in these fields, to reveal the inherent relation between the mathematical techniques most successfully used for problems of different biological origin, to emphasize the generic mathematical tools and the most effective ways of using them to address biological problems, and to identify the problems where groundbreaking developments can be expected in near future through application of recent mathematical advances in neighbouring fields. The scope of the conference is outlined by (although not necessarily restricted to) the following topics:
The talks are expected to be mostly grouped around these subject areas. However, the organisers are ready and willing to consider any submission of a potentially high scientific merit which does not exactly fall into the list above. Confirmed plenary speakers are:
In order to encourage wide participation of PhD students as well as early-career researchers, there will be a poster session organised during the conference. For UK research PhD students, partial financial support is possible to contribute to the travel or accommodation expenses. To register send a message to sp237@le.ac.uk (Sergei Petrovskii) with a title and a brief abstract of your presentation (one page at most, in a camera-ready format, either pdf or Word), clearly indicating whether it is intended to be a talk or a poster. Also, in case there is more than one author, please indicate very clearly who is actually going to present the work. The registration and abstract submission deadline is 1 March, and the decision of acceptance will be made by 15 March 2009. There will be a small registration fee of £50 to be paid in cash upon arrival. This event is supported by the London Mathematical Society and the University of Leicester. Members of the Advisory Scientific Committee are: Alexander Gorban (Leicester, UK), Michel Langlais (Bordeaux, France), Philip Maini (Oxford, UK), Horst Malchow (Osnabrück, Germany), Jonathan Sherratt (Edinburgh, UK), Nanako Shigesada (Kyoto, Japan), Vitaly Volpert (Lyon, France). MICHAEL FARADAY PRIZE LECTURE The Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize Lecture will be given by Professor John Barrow, FRS (University of Cambridge) on Tuesday 24 February 2009 at 5.30 pm at The Royal Society, London. This lecture is free – no ticket or advanced booking required. Doors open at 4.45 pm and seats will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. This lecture will be webcast live at http://royalsociety.org/live and available to view on demand within 48 hours of delivery. Abstract. We look at the role of pictures and images in the development of science. From the first graphs and illustrated books to Molscript, the influence of the first pictures of spiral galaxies on Van Gogh’s ’Starry Night’, to the artistic resonances of the Hubble Space Telescope’s images, the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb, and the intricacy of fractals, we will see how pictures have influenced science and spearheaded its communication to the public today. NORTH BRITISH SEMIGROUPS AND APPLICATIONS NETWORK The North British Semigroups and Applications Network (NBSAN) is a new Scheme 3 network of researchers with interests in semigroup theory and its applications. The first meeting will be held in York on Wednesday 28 January 2009. All are welcome, and attendance by graduate students is especially encouraged. For more details please contact Mark Kambites (Mark.Kambites@manchester.ac.uk) or visit the network website at www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~mkambites/events/nbsan/. ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES QUANTUM DISCRETE INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS 23–27 March 2009 in association with the Newton Institute programme entitled Discrete Integrable Systems Organisers: J. Avan (Université Cergy-Pontoise, France), A.N.W. Hone (University of Kent, UK), R. Quispel (La Trobe University, Australia), O. Ragnisco (Univ. Roma, Italy). Theme of conference: This conference will bring together people working on topics such as discrete-time quantum systems and quantum mappings, quantum Bäcklund transformations and Q-Baxter operators, quantum field theory on the space-time lattice including quantum discrete sine-Gordon, Liouville and Boussinesq models, associated quantum Lax operators in 1 + 1 and 2 + 1 dimensions and Hirota type equations, associated Yang–Baxter and tetrahedron equations. It is also planned to have a topical meeting on Discrete Aspects of Space and Time, having as special participant Professor G. ’t Hooft (Nobel Laureate, University of Utrecht). We aim to create awareness in the high-energy physics community of the enormous amount of progress made in recent years on the mathematics of discrete integrable systems, possessing beautiful and deep symmetry properties perhaps not yet fully explored by physicists and possibly going to play an important role in future models of fundamental interactions. Provisional list of speakers:
* to be confirmed Further information and application forms are available from: www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/DIS/disw01.html. Completed application forms should be sent to Tracey Andrew, Programme & Conference Secretary, Isaac Newton Institute, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge CB3 0EH or via email to: t.andrew@newton.cam.ac.uk. Closing date for the receipt of applications is 9 January 2009. SOUTH-WEST UK ANALYSIS MEETING The South-West UK Analysis Meeting will take place on 21 January 2009 at the University of Bath. The meeting is thought of as a start-up initiative on the programme of building a regular forum for mathematical analysts based in the South-West of the UK, which includes Aberystwyth, Bath, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Oxford, Swansea. Although it is focused on the South-West analysis community, mathematicians from other parts of the UK are very welcome to attend. The main idea behind the meeting is to bring together analysts working in the above research centres, which have formed during the last year or two but have so far had few chances to establish research links between themselves. The ’day’ will start around 10-11 am and finish about 5-6 pm, and will include five talks by distinguished analysts from the UK and abroad, lunch and two one-hour coffee/discussion breaks, to provide plenty of opportunity for interactions. The list of confirmed speakers is as follows:
The January 2009 meeting is supported by the LMS. Those wishing to attend please email CherednichenkoKD@cardiff.ac.uk. SPARSE MATRICES FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION In Honour of John Reid’s 70th Birthday The Numerical Analysis Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is organising a two-day meeting to bring together leading numerical analysts from the UK and abroad in honour of John Reid’s 70th birthday. John is an eminent UK numerical analyst who, over a career spanning five decades, has made many important contributions, particularly in the development of sparse matrix technology. His main contributions include: conjugate gradients as an iterative method, Markowitz’ pivoting for sparse matrices, estimating sparse Jacobians, factorizing and updating linear programming bases, steepest-edge simplex algorithm, the multifrontal method for sparse linear systems, using 2 x 2 pivots for sparse symmetric indefinite matrices, and ordering sparse matrices for small wavefront and profile. Since 1969, John has been a member of the Numerical Analysis Group (www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/nag) that began at the Harwell Laboratory and moved to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 1990. One of the key activities of the Group and one for which it is internationally renowned is the HSL (www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/nag/hsl/hsl.shtml) mathematical software library (formerly called the Harwell Subroutine Library). Amongst its best-known packages are those for solving sparse linear systems, optimization and sparse eigenvalues. Over the years, John has contributed to all these areas and many of his algorithms and packages are widely used today. The meeting will be held over two days, from 15 to 16 July 2009 at Abingdon, Oxford. All talks will be by invitation. Speakers will include:
On Day 1, the talks will be related to the areas of numerical analysis that John has been involved in over his long career. These will include optimization, sparse direct methods, numerical linear algebra, iterative methods, and automatic differentiation. Day 2 will concentrate on algorithms and software for large-scale systems. It will include talks by leading experts on the history and importance of mathematical software libraries, and look to the future and to new challenges for such libraries. Particular emphasis will be placed on software for sparse problems that has been developed by the Numerical Analysis Group and is used to solve practical problems from a range of application areas. A celebratory dinner will be held on the evening of the first day. Further details are available at www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/nag/ or by contacting jennifer.scott@stfc.ac.uk. The meeting is being supported by an LMS Conference grant.
LMS–EPSRC Short Course University of Nottingham, 23–27 March 2009 Organiser: Professor John Billingham Course outline and prerequisites The key skills needed to cut through the fog of detail that surrounds a typical industrial problem, formulate a useful mathematical model, and then analyse and refine it, are not taught in most UK mathematics degrees. This course will teach these skills through a week of practical problem solving in small groups. The format will closely follow that of the annual UK Study Group with Industry (www.maths-in-industry.org/), except that the problems will be presented by experienced instructors, who will then guide the participants for the remainder of the week. We hope that all participants will go on to attend the full Study Group, which will be held at the University of Southampton during the following week. The instructors and problems will be:
Previous knowledge of any of these topics is not a prerequisite, and is much less important than enthusiasm and an open mind. Application Applications should be made using the registration form available on the Society’s website at: www.lms.ac.uk/activities/rmc/sc/44poster.html. Applicants should indicate their background and interests, so that they can be assigned to an appropriate group. The closing date for applications is Friday 30 January 2009. Numbers will be limited and those interested are advised to make an early application. Fees
All participants must pay their own travel costs (for EPSRC-funded students, this should be covered by their DTA). Fees are not payable until a place on the course is offered. In the event of over-subscription, preference will be given to UK-based research students.
VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS IN DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY An LMS and EPSRC sponsored research workshop on Variational Problems in Differential Geometry will be held at the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds from 30 March to 2 April 2009. It will incorporate a special session in honour of John C. Wood, on the occasion of his 60th birthday, to celebrate his seminal contributions to the theory of harmonic maps and morphisms. The workshop will bring together researchers working on disparate geometric problems, all of which admit a variational formulation, the aim being to stimulate cooperation and cross-fertilization of ideas. Topics expected to be addressed include:
The format of the workshop will provide five one-hour lectures per day, by invited speakers, leaving generous breaks between talks for questions and informal scientific interaction. Speakers include:
Please see the website www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/pure/geometry/vpdg or contact the organizers Roger Bielawski, Kevin Houston and Martin Speight, via vpdg@maths.leeds.ac.uk. Young researchers are particularly encouraged to attend, and may apply for financial support from the organizers.
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