Irish Mathematical Society, September Meeting, 2003.


The annual September meeting of the Irish Mathematical Society will be held at NUI, Galway on the 4th and 5th of September.
 

Programme

All of the talks will take place in the McMunn lecture theatre.
 

Thursday 4th September

Session 1

10:00 Registation outside the McMunn theatre
10:30-11:00 Opening remarks by the President of NUI, Galway 
and the president of the IMS
11:00-11:35 Aisling McCluskey (NUIG) "Natural Order Amongst the Subspaces of R"
11:45-12:20 Alan Hegarty (UL) "Towards a common framework for Mathematics degrees in Europe"

Lunch

Session 2

2:00-3:00  Jim Howie (Heriot-Watt University) "A group-theoretic conjecture and surgery on knots"
3:00-3:20 Break
3:20-3:55 Michael Tuite (NUI Galway) "Some Combinatorial and Modular Aspects of Genus Two Conformal Field Theory"
4:05-4:40 Niamh O'Sulliavn (DCU) "Idempotent Transformations on Groups"

The IMS Committee will meet from 4:50-6:00

 
 

Friday 5th September

Session 3

9:30-10:05 Ken Houston (UUJ) "Supporting Good practice in Assessment in Maths, Stats and OR"
10:15-11:15 Andreas Defant (University of Oldenburg) "Unconditionality in spaces of m-homogeneous polynomials"
11:15-11:45 Break
11:45-12:20 Thomas Unger (UCD) "Hasse  Principle for Similarity of Hermitian Forms"
12:30-1:05 Martin Mathieu (QUB) "Spectral Isometries"

Lunch. The Annual General Meeting of the IMS will be held at this time also.

Session 4

2:30-3:30 Michael Berry (University of Bristol) "Making Light of Mathematics" 
3:30-4:05 Werner Nahm (DIAS) TBA
4:15-4:50 To be confirmed

 

Accomodation:

There are several B&B's close to the University. For example,

Newcastle Lodge, Phone: 091-527888
Bologna B&B, 091-523792
Corrib Haven, 091-524171
Aneesha B&B, 091-524250
Ashgrove House, 091-581291
Villanova B&B, 091-524849
Coolavalla B&B, 091-522415
Rosgal B&B, 091- 524723
De Sota B&B, 091-585064
Lisnagree B&B, 091-520230
 

All of these are within a short walk of the university
For an extensive list of hotels and B&B's visit the following
website: http://www.galway.net and follow the accomodation link.
You can also try the accomodation section of the following website:
http://www.ireland.travel.ie/home/
 
 

Lunches and Conference Banquet:

A section of the main student restaurant will be reserved for lunch on Thursday and Friday.
You must purchase a lunch ticket from the organisers in order to obtain your meal.
This can be done at the start of the meeting (during registration, or immediately before
lunch on Thursday)

There will be a banquet on Thursday evening. The cost per person of attending this event
will be 35 euros. Again you should purchase a ticket from the organisers
in order to attend. This should be done at registration if at all possible.
 

If you have any queries please contact one of the organisers:

Martin Meere
Department of Mathematical Physics,
NUI, Galway.
email: martin.meere@nuigalway.ie
phone: 091-524411 ext. 3087

Jim Cruickshank,
Department of Mathematics,
NUI, Galway.
email: james.cruickshank@nuigalway.ie
phone: 091-524411 ext. 3965