Ring Theory: recent progress and applications

Photos

• Courtesy of Eric Wallace:
  • Bill Crawley-Boevey in action
  • Toby Stafford in action
  • Larry Levy and Chris Robson
  • Peter Vamos
  • Bob Hart
  • John McConnell
  • David Jordan
  • Nicole Snashall
  • Toby Stafford
  • Tea
  • The conference dinner
  • David Salinger and John Brindley
  • Charu Hajarnavis, Reg Allenby and Rodney Sharp
  • Peter Jorgensen, Marcel Wiedemann and Graham Murphy
  • Raphael Rouquier, Alison Parker and David Pauksztello
  • The conference dinner
  • The conference dinner
  • Lyn Robson in action
  • David Jordan, Peter Vamos, Paul Smith
  • Vladimir Bavula, Stepane Launois

• Courtesy of Lyn Robson:
  • Chris Robson
  • The conference dinner
  • Chris and Lyn Robson
  • Lance Small and John McConnell
  • John McConnell, Ken Brown and Chris Robson
  • Ken Brown and Chris Robson
  • Charu Hajarnavis, Reg Allenby and Rodney Sharp
  • David Salinger, John Brindley, Charu Hajarnavis and Reg Allenby
  • Eric Wallace, Ann Bowers and John Bowers
  • Stan Wainer and Mary Hart
  • Ruth Saunders and Larry Levy
  • Lance Small in action
  • John McConnell in action
  • Chris Robson and Toby Stafford

Please let me know any corrections to these annotations (W.C-B).

Schedule

Friday 5th May
2.00pm - 2.50pm	J. T. Stafford (Michigan) Noncommutative surfaces
3.00pm - 3.50pm	L. Levy (Wisconsin) Modules over HNP rings
3.50pm - 4.30pm	Tea / Coffee
4.30pm - 5.20pm	A. Smoktunowicz (Edinburgh) Some results on rings with Gelfand-Kirillov dimension less than three
5.30pm - 6.20pm	S. P. Smith (Seattle) Representations of sl(2,C) and non-commutative blowing up
7.30pm	Conference Dinner
Saturday 6th May
9.00am - 9.50am	R. Rouquier (Leeds) Calabi-Yau algebras
9.50am - 10.30am	Tea / Coffee
10.30am - 11.20pm	L. W. Small (San Diego) Noetherian Rings: Before and After McConnell and Robson
11.30am - 12.20pm	I. G. Gordon (Glasgow) Representations of rational Cherednik algebras

Organizers

• K. A. Brown (Glasgow)
• W. Crawley-Boevey (Leeds), local organizer
• T. H. Lenagan (Edinburgh)
• J. T. Stafford (Michigan)

To Attend

• Please inform the local organizer Bill Crawley-Boevey, email: w.crawley-boevey@leeds.ac.uk, tel: (0113) 343 5185.
• Please let us know by April 15th if you would like to attend the Conference Dinner, and whether you want the vegetarian option. The cost will be 25 pounds. We can accept Cash and UK cheques, payable to University of Leeds, but not credit or debit cards.
• Please make your own hotel booking (if required).

Getting Here

• This page shows the location of the lectures, the Conference Dinner, the Ibis Hotel and the Rail Station. (If you have difficulty printing the page, the campus map is here, and the bus map is here. The lectures take place in Conference Auditorium 2, in building 10 of the campus map. The Conference Dinner is in the Woodhouse Room, in University House, which is the western part of building 5 of the campus map. The Ibis Hotel is on Marlborough Street, which runs south from Park Lane College, on the left hand side of the bus map.)
• Directions for driving to the University of Leeds.

Hotel Accommodation

• We have arranged for a limited number of non-smoking rooms for Friday 5th May to be kept available at the Ibis Hotel Leeds Centre (see map) until the end of March. The standard price, bookable by internet, is 49.95 pounds + breakfast. If you wish to book a room from our stock at this price, and get breakfast included at this price (for single occupancy), please contact the hotel directly, quoting "Ring Theory" and the booking reference number 020499. The telephone number is (0113) 220 4100, or 0044 113 220 4100 from overseas.

• There are some possibilities for cheaper Bed and Breakfasts close to the University. For example
  • Manxdene Hotel, 154, Woodsley Road LS2 9LX. (0113) 243 2586. They have single ensuites at 40 pounds including breakfast, single rooms with shared facilities at 30 pounds, and shared rooms at 40 pounds for two people.
  • Glengarth Hotel, 162, Woodsley Road, LS2 9LZ. (0113) 245 7940, fax 216 8033.
  • Avalon Guest House, 132 Woodsley Road, LS2 9LZ. (0113) 243 2545, fax 215 8033.
  See map. Please contact them directly to book.

Further Information

The meeting is supported by the University of Leeds, the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Research Support Fund, and the London Mathematical Society. We have some funding available to support UK based Ph.D. students, but this is all.

A nominal registration fee will be charged at the meeting, to cover incidental expenses.

Facilities available in the lecture theatre.

A poster.

For further information please contact any of the organizers.