Dr Misha Feigin attended "Integrable Day" at Loughborough University on Friday 25th November 2016. This is an annual meeting of the collaborative workshop series on Classical and Quantum Integrability funded by the LMS. This LMS network unites groups of researchers from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds and Loughborough, with Glasgow currently coordinating it. This year "Integrable Day" explored interactions with algebraic geometry among other topics. The next meeting of the series will be held in Leeds, in the Spring.

Dr Peter Stewart attended the EPSRC Mathematics Early Career Forum on Wednesday 2nd November 2016.

Peter also attended the Nature Masterclass on Thursday 13th and Friday 14th October 2016.

Dr Mike Whittaker gave a talk on “New directions in self-similar group theory” at the Operator Algebras Seminar in the University of Oslo and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology between Monday 7th and Friday 11th November 2016.

On Thursday 17th November 2016, Mike also gave a talk on “Fractal substitution tilings with applications to noncommutative geometry” at the Pure Maths Colloquium at the University of St Andrews.

Dr Joachim Zacharias was co-organiser for a conference in Warsaw from Monday 21st to Friday 25th November 2016, on the structure and classification of C*-algebras at which Professor Stuart White was an invited speaker. Other Glasgow participants included research affiliate Dr Joan Bosa and postgraduate students Sam Evington and Luke Hamlin.

First published: 30 November 2016

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