Welcome
5th Workshop SIGMAP - Symmetries In Graph, Maps And Polytopes
Sponsored by the Open University, London Mathematical Society and
British Combinatorial Committee
Dates: 7th - 11th July 2014
Location:
ELIM
Conference Centre, West Malvern, U.K.
The aim of the Workshop is to continue the SIGMAP series and
give
the world-wide community of researchers in symmetries of discrete
objects and structures the opportunity to gather together, exchange
information and present their newest findings. It is expected to set up
a new momentum for this community and further enhance research
into important connections between embedded graphs, Riemann surfaces,
dessins d'enfant and Galois theory by including a mini-course on these
topics.
The
Workshop venue, the ELIM Conference Centre in West Malvern, offers a
great environment in terms of a good location, accommodation and
catering quality, conference equipment and small meeting rooms for
group talks. It is situated in the gorgeous area of Malverns, offering
great views from the Malvern Hills and plenty to see and do in the
beautiful town of Great Malvern; for more information about Malverns
(with additional links) click
here.
The expected arrival / departure times for participants are Sunday 6th
July afternoon / Friiday 11th July afternoon.
Travel
Information
The Malverns are accessible from London Airports and from
Birmingham International Airport by train.
The best way for planning your travel from one of these airports to the
conference venue and back is to visit the
British Rail
website where you can plan your journey and look up timetables and
prices. The destination to be typed in is the Great Malvern Station; to
proceed to the ELIM Conference Centre from there you simply take a
cab.
The
distance from London to Malverns does not look big on a map
but it
takes some time to get there. As a rule of thumb, to get to Great
Malvern you should budget about 2 hours from Birmingham Intl,
3
hours from Heathrow Central Bus Station (beginning by a local
bus
ride from Heathrow to the Reading Station), 4 hours from Gatwick
Airport and up to 5 hours from Luton and Stansted Airports, depending
on the time of the day.