Graduate Student Meeting
This meeting is intended as an introduction to the Society meeting later in the day. All graduate students (and indeed any mathematicians) will be very welcome.

9.30 Coffee/Tea

10.00 Graham Brightwell (LSE) An introduction to entropy

11.00 Coffee/Tea

11.15 Graduate student talks

13.00 Lunch (buffet)

14.00 Award prizes

14.05 How to get your papers published Susan Hezlet, LMS Publisher

14.15 Richard Thomas (Imperial College London) Introduction to Morse theory

15.15 Move to J Z Young Lecture Theatre for LMS meeting

15.30 LMS Meeting starts

The lectures will be in Room 500 Mathematics. Coffee and buffet lunch will be provided in the Mathematics Undergraduate common room. For directions see www.ucl.ac.uk/Mathematics/department/location.html. We would like to invite graduate students to give short talks (15 minutes) aimed at a general mathematical audience. Prizes will be awarded for the best two talks. Graduate students wishing to attend should register by email before 6 June and indicate whether they wish to give a talk: John Talbot (talbot [ at ] math.ucl.ac.uk) or Andrew Lobb
(a.lobb [ at ] imperial.ac.uk).

Society Meeting

15.30 LMS business

15.45 B. Bollobás (Cambridge) Senior Whitehead Prize Winner 2007 – Projections, entropy and some applications

16.45 Tea

17.15 S. Weinberger (University of Chicago and Hebrew University) will give the Hardy Lecture on Complexity, entropy, and variational problems

The Society meeting will be in the J Z Young Lecture Theatre, Gower Street. A reception will be held at De Morgan House at 6.30 pm followed by a dinner. For further information contact Susan Oakes at the Society (susan.oakes [ at ] lms.ac.uk). There are funds available to contribute in part to the expenses of members of the Society or research students to attend the meeting. Requests for support, including an estimate of expenses, may be addressed to the Programme Secretary at the Society (web: www.lms.ac.uk; email: grants [ at ] lms.ac.uk).