East Midlands mathematical physics seminar

Integrable systems and complex analysis

Centre for Nonlinear Mathematics and Applications
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Loughborough University

Friday-Saturday, 6-7 December 2002

Programme

Friday, 6 December

1:30 - 2:30: R. J. Korhonen (Joensuu [Finland] and Loughborough)
Nevanlinna's theory of value distribution with applications

2:30 - 3:30: V. B. Kuznetsov (Leeds)
Some applications of quantum integrability to special functions

3:30 - 4:00: Coffee/tea

4:00 - 5:00: W. K. Hayman (Imperial College)
The growth of solutions of algebraic differential equations

5:00 - 6:00: L. J. Mason (Oxford)
Integrable background geometries, dKP equations and the spinor vortex equations

Saturday, 7 December

9:00 - 10:00: J. K. Langley (Nottingham)
Critical points of certain potentials

10:00 - 11:00: A. P. Veselov (Loughborough)
Stieltjes relations and the Painlevé-IV hierarchy

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee/tea

11:30 - 12:30: J. M. Anderson (University College London)
Maximal rays of entire functions

12:30 - 1:30: P. M. Sutcliffe (Canterbury)
Skyrmions and rational maps

Overview

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from integrable systems and complex function theory in the hope of identifying interesting problems at the interface of these two fields.

Location

All talks will be in the Sir David Davies Building at Loughborough University. This is building W at the western end of campus and contains the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Physics Department. The first two talks will be in room W1.90 (off the main foyer of the Department of Mathematical Sciences). All other talks will be in room W0.03.

How to get to Loughborough

Here you can find a map of the campus of Loughborough University and some general instructions on how to reach the university.

For those arriving by train, there is normally a good taxi service. The cost is about Ł4. Alternatively, a bus shuttle service departs from Loughborough Station every 10 minutes (Kinchbus No 7, Monday-Saturday between 07.38 and 17.38 hrs). The bus stops in the Town Centre outside the Griffin Inn at the top of Market Street and continues past the School of Art and Design (LUSAD) entering the University campus on Epinal Way. It travels along University Road, which bisects the campus along its length, and turns near the Department of Mechanical Engineering (which is just 50 m. from our Department) to return to the Rail Station by the same route.

If you arrive by car, the easiest way to reach the campus by car is via the M1, exit at junction 23; take the A512 towards Loughborough, and at the first roundabout go right and then left. The first building you come to is the Sir David Davies Building (map reference W on the west side of campus) which hosts the Mathematical Sciences and Physics Departments.

Alternatively, if you arrive through Loughborough town center, take the A512 heading South: this passes on the side of the campus (the science and engineering buildings are the furthest from the town center). Turn left at the "British Gas roundabout" and then left as above.