Plastic models made of rods and joints.

Graph rigidity and applications

Monday 17th-Friday 21st April 2023

Programme

Invited speakers

  • Sean Dewar, University of Bristol
  • Ioannis Emiris, University of Athens
  • Derek Kitson, Mary Immaculate College
  • Kaie Kubjas, Aalto University
  • Isabella Novik, University of Washington
  • Ben Smith, University of Manchester
  • Klara Stokes, Umea University
  • Nelly Villamizar, University of Swansea

In-person participants are welcome to propose contributed talks. We expect contributed talks to be around 20minutes in length. Please send your title and abstract to r.e.holland2@lancaster.ac.uk by March 1st.

Talks will be held in Lecture Theatre 1, Fylde College, Lancaster University and the provisional schedule is as follows:

Time

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

10:00

Villamizar

Smith

Kubjas

Dewar

11:00

COFFEE

COFFEE

COFFEE

COFFEE

11:30

Southgate

Legersky

Tanigawa

Shakir

12:00

LUNCH

Schulze

13:30

WELCOME

Emiris - Bartzos

Kitson

Stokes

END

14:00

Speed Talks / Open Problems

14:30

COFFEE

Lew

COFFEE

15:00

Grasegger

La Porta

15:30

COFFEE

Király

Cruickshank

16:00

Novik

17:00

18:00

DINNER

Organisers

The organisers are Tony Nixon, John Hewetson and Eleftherios Kastis

Registration

If you plan to attend in-person, then to register for the workshop please visit the online store to pay the £50 registration fee and then complete the short survey.

If you plan to attend online only, then registration is free. Please complete the short survey.

The deadline to register is March 1st 2023.

Financial Support

We have limited funds to support the participation of graduate students at the workshop. If you would like to apply for such support, then the deadline is March 1st and we will advise you of the outcome in advance of the registration deadline. Support will take the form of providing accommodation on the Lancaster campus. To be considered for this support please send a short statement (1-2 paragraphs) outlining your interest in the workshop and commit to giving a talk to l.kastis@lancaster.ac.uk.

Partners

We are grateful for financial support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the London Mathematical Society and the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research.