Workshop on Galois-Covers, Grothendieck Teichmüller Theory and Dessins d'Enfants

University of Leicester, Tuesday June 5-Thursday June 7, 2018

This research workshop follows the LMS Regional Meeting and will feature more specialised talks. Everyone is very welcome. If you are interested to participate, please contact the organisers via email. The complete programme of the LMS meeting and workshop can be found here. All talks and sessions take place in Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3.

Invited workshop speakers include:

  • Ingrid Bauer (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
  • Fabrizio Catanese (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
  • Anna Felikson (Durham University, UK)
  • Paola Frediani (University of Pavia, Italy)
  • Benoit Fresse (University of Lille, France)
  • Christian Gleissner (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
  • Pierre Guillot (IRMA, Strasbourg, France)
  • Gareth Jones (University of Southampton, UK)
  • Minhyong Kim (University of Oxford, UK)
  • Bernhard Koeck (University of Southampton, UK)
  • Michael Lönne (University of Bayreuth)
  • Goran Malic (University of Manchester, UK)
  • Marta Mazzocco (University of Birmingham, UK)
  • Roberto Pignatelli (University of Trento, Italy)
  • Mohamed Saïdi (University of Exeter, UK)
  • Leila Schneps (Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu Paris, France)
  • Richard Webb (University of Cambridge, UK)

Detailed information with complete programme, titles and abstracts can be found here. A timetable is here. The proceedings are planned to be published in the series Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Participants can get a 20% reduction on Springer books. More information here.