Geometry Group

Upcoming events

• Geometry Seminars
• AGIS Colloquia (AGIS = Algebra, Geometry and Integrable Systems)
• Yorkshire and Durham Geometry Days

Members

Permanent staff

• Professor Roger Bielawski (Hyperkaehler geometry, moduli spaces of solitons)
• Dr Kevin Houston (Singularity theory)
• Dr Martin Speight (Mathematical physics, soliton dynamics)
• Professor John C. Wood (Harmonic maps and morphisms)

Postdocs and research students

• Mohammed Al-Bahadeli (Singularity theory)
• Azeb Alghanemi (Singularity theory)
• Lamia Al Qahtani (Geometry of soliton moduli spaces)
• Dr Yakov Shnir (Topological solitons)
• Rodrigo Pires dos Santos (Geometry of monopole moduli spaces)
• Marco Wong (Geometry of monopole moduli spaces)

Visitors

• Professor Victor Pidstrygach (Goettingen) August 2008 - March 2009
• Professor Roberta Wik Atique (Sao Paulo) September 2008 - February 2009
• Professor Lorenz Schwachhoefer (TU Dortmund) March - April 2009

Geometry links

• The Bibliography of Harmonic Morphisms.

• The Atlas of Harmonic Morphisms

• Differential Geometry Preprints.

• Geometry and Topology Address Book.

• Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves.

• Lecture notes in Differential Geometry
  • An introduction to Riemannian Geometry (By S. Gudmundsson).

  • Lecture notes for a course in Differential Geometry (By S. Yakovenko).

  • Harmonic Maps and Integrable Systems (A.P. Fordy and J.C. Wood, editors).

  • Lecture notes on Differential Geometry (By J.M. Speight).

  • Lecture notes on Gaussian Geometry (By S. Gudmundsson).

Archive material

Recent members of the group

• Dr Sheila Carter
• Dr Juha Jaykka
• Dr Steffen Krusch
• Daniel Littlestone
• Dr Radu Pantilie
• Dr Bruno Simoes
• Dr Martin Svensson
• Dr Alan West

Conferences, workshops etc.

• Gauge Theory and Complex Geometry Monday 4 - Saturday 23 July 2011.
• Variational Problems in Differential Geometry Monday 30 March - Thursday 2 April 2009. Conference/workshop with a special session in honour of John Wood's 60th birthday.
• Geometry, Field Theory and Solitons Sunday 26 - Friday 31 July 2009. LMS-EPSRC Short Instructional Course.
• In April 2000 the group hosted the very successful Workshop on Harmonic Maps and Curvature Properties of Submanifolds, 2.
  A list of participants, with e-mail addresses, is available here.