LMS WEST MIDLANDS REGIONAL MEETING 2005

1:45 p.m.	Arrival (Watson Building)
2:00 p.m.	Welcome (Physics Bridge, Watson Building)
2:30 p.m.	Professor Bob Oliver (Paris) p-local structure of finite groups and of their classifying spaces (Lecture Room A, Watson Building)
3:40 p.m.	Professor Timothy Gowers (Cambridge) Is there another way to explain mathematics? (Lecture Room A, Watson Building)
4:40 p.m.	Tea (Physics Bridge, Watson Building)
5:15 p.m.	Professor Stephen Smith (Chicago) Homology decompositions from subgroup complexes of finite groups The Lecture (Lecture Room A, Watson Building)
6:15 p.m.	Open discussion on the LMS-IMA Frameworks Study Initiative
7:00 p.m	Dinner (University, Staff House)

Please let me (Chris Parker) know if you will be attending the meeting. In particular, I need to know in advance if you will be attending the dinner (between £18 and £23 not including drinks, with a 50% subsidy for postgraduate students.)

Also please inform me if you would like (or if you have been told you would like) to display a poster at the meeting. See Poster Session for further details.

Some contribution to travel expenses will be available, priority, however, will be given to postgraduate students.

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