Irish Geometry Meeting, 2003

The Mathematics Department of the National University of Ireland, Galway hosted the first Irish Geometry Meeting on May 30 and 31st, 2003.

Schedule of talks

All talks were held in IT125

Friday May 30

Coffee at 10.00am

10.30-11.15 Emil Skoldberg (NUIG)
“Discrete Morse Theory”

11.30-12.15 Anthony Small (NUIM)
“Minimal Surfaces from Monopoles”

Lunch

2.00-2.45 David Simms (TCD)
“Group Actions on Symplectic Manifolds: An Introduction”

3.00-3.45 Donal Hurley (UCC)
“TBA”

Coffee

4.30-5.30 Michael Atiyah (University of Edinburgh)
“Spheres, Projective Planes and Severi Varieties”

Saturday May 31st

09.30-10.15 Brendan Guilfoyle (IT Tralee)
“The Twistor Correspondence in R3

10.30-11.15 David Wraith (NUIM)
“Surgery and Ricci positive manifolds”

Coffee

12.00-1.00 Dmitri Alekseevsky (University of Hull)
"Quaternionic and para-quaternionic CR structures "
 

If you have any questions, please contact one of the organisers:

Jim Cruickshank,
Dept. of Mathematics,
NUI, Galway.
email:  james.cruickshank@nuigalway.ie
 

John Burns,
Dept. of Mathematics,
NUI, Galway.
email:  john.burns@nuigalway.ie