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WARWICK MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE

Global Analysis and Quantisation Day: In honour of Yoshiaki Maeda

Wednesday 7 January 2009

To celebrate the occasion of his 60th birthday and the award of an Honorary Professorhip at the University of Warwick, a one day conference will be held in honour of Professor Yoshiaki Maeda on the above date.

The 2009 UK-Japan Winter School on Dynamics and Complexity will be held at the University of Bath, 8-11 January.

LOCATION: Mathematics Research Centre Warwick University

SPEAKERS: (times are provisional)

1130-1230 Room MS.04 Tudor Ratiu (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), "The Euler-Weil-Petersson equation" ABSTRACT

1400-1500 Room MA_B3.02 Simone Gutt (Universite Libre Bruxelles), "Reduced star products and involutions"

1515-1615 Room MA_B3.02 Sylvie Paycha (Universite Blaise Pascal), "What if we lived in a non integer dimensional world?" ABSTRACT

1645-1800 Room MA_B3.02 Yoshiaki Maeda (Keio University), "Riemannian geometry of the loop space"

DINNER: A dinner is plannned for the evening of 7 January.

REGISTRATION: It is possible to register at this web page. Please indicate whether you wish to attend the dinner (the cost is expected to be less than 20 pounds; further details will appear soon.)

ACCOMMODATION: Some MRC Housing on campus will be available for participants who wish to stay overnight. Bed and Breakfast or hotel accommodation is available in Kenilworth or Coventry. If you wish to request accommodation, please register at this web page and follow the instructions.

TRAVEL: Travel information can be found here.

Information for participants in the UK-Japan Winter School at the University of Bath: It is possible to travel from Coventry to Bath by train on the morning of 8 January (for example) as follows: depart Coventry 1025, arrive Reading 1139, depart Reading 1157, arrive Bath Spa1300. (Alternatively, depart Coventry 1023, changing trains at Birmingham New Street and Bristol Temple Meads, arrive Bath Spa 1311.) The price is approximately 55 pounds (38 pounds via Birmingham/Bristol.) However, an advance purchase fare of approximately 15 pounds via Reading may be available. Please contact Martin Guest (martin at comp.metro-u.ac.jp) to make an advance reservation. (All details here are provisional.)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Jurgen Berndt (UC Cork), John Bolton (Durham), David Elworthy (Warwick), Martin Guest (Tokyo Metropolitan)