Joint IMA/LMS Regional Meeting

Open Discussion on the LMS-IMA Frameworks Study Initiative

Wednesday 18 May 2005

Watson Building, School of Mathematics,

University of Birmingham

The IMA and LMS are holding a series of joint regional meetings to discuss the recent Frameworks Study Initiative Report. The Midlands meeting will be combined with a programmed LMS meeting. IMA members are invited to arrive at 2.30 pm, 5.00 pm or 6.15 pm.

2.00 pm LMS Midlands Regional Meeting: Arrival, poster display

2.20 pm LMS business meeting

2.30 pm LMS Fröhlich Lecture

Bob Oliver (Paris 13)

p-local structure of finite groups and of their classifying spaces

3.40 pm Timothy Gowers (Cambridge)

Is there another way to explain mathematics?

4.40 pm Tea and coffee break, poster display

5.15 pm Stephen Smith (Chicago)

Homology decompositions from subgroup complexes of

finite groups

6.15 pm Open discussion on the LMS-IMA Frameworks Study Initiative

7.00 pm Dinner

Included within the meeting there will be a poster session for postgraduate students with a prize of £100 worth of books donated by Springer Verlag. There will be book displays by the LMS and by Springer.

For further details and to reserve a place at the dinner, contact Chris Parker (email: c.w.parker@bham.ac.uk) at the School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham. See also the link from the School’s website: www.mat.bham.ac.uk.