Calf is the junior COW. Announcements are made using the COW mailing list.

The Calf has moved on to pastures new. The current Calf web page can be found here.

This page is being maintained as a record of those Calf events organised between October 2003 and October 2005.

The principal organisers were Alexander Kasprzyk (Bath) and Elizabeth Baldwin (Oxford).

Local organisers included Anne-Sophie Kaloghiros (Cambridge), Ed Segal (Imperial), Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Liverpool), and James Smith (Warwick).

• Oxford, Thursday 23rd June 2005 (Maths Institute, L3)
• 12:00 Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Liverpool): Reflection Groups, Generalised Cartan Matrices & Kac-Moody Algebras, Part I. (abs)
• 2:00 Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Liverpool): Reflection Groups, Generalised Cartan Matrices & Kac-Moody Algebras, Part II. (abs)
• 3:00 John Wunderle (Liverpool): Properties of higher genus curves. (abs)

• Sheffield, Thursday 9th June 2005 (The Hicks Building, Lecture Theatre 3, Floor D)
• 1:00 David Stern (Sheffield): Vocabulary Made Easy. (abs)
• 3:00 David Stern (Sheffield): Tilting T-structures, Mutating Exceptional Collections, Seiberg Duality... It's all quivers to me. (abs)

• Warwick, Thursday 26th May 2005 (Maths Department, B3.03)
• 2:00 James Smith (Warwick): Introduction to K3 Surfaces: Part II. (abs)
• 3:30 Alexander Kasprzyk (Bath): Introduction to Toric Varieties: Part II. (abs)

• Imperial, Thursday 10th March 2005 (Huxley Building, Room 139)
• 1:00 Shu Sasaki (Imperial): Crystalline Cohomology and Crystals. (abs)
• 2:00 & 3:15 Marco Lo Giudice (Bath): Scheme-theoretic Projective Geometry. (abs)

• Bath, Thursday 10th February 2005 (1W 3.20a)
• 1:00 Barrie Cooper (Bath): Koszul Duality and Twisted Group Algebras. (abs)
• 2:45 Elizabeth Baldwin (Oxford): Introduction to Deligne-Mumford Stacks: Part II. (abs)

• Liverpool, Tuesday 25th January 2005 (Maths Department, Room 211)
• 1:00 Kyriakos Papadopoulos (Liverpool): Reflection Groups of Integral Hyperbolic Lattices. (abs)
• 2:00 Grzegorz Kapustka & Michal Kapustka (Krakow): Some Geometric Properties of Singular Del Pezzo Surfaces. (abs)
• 4:00 John Wunderle (Liverpool): Jacobians of Hyperelliptic Curves. (abs)
• 5:00 Alberto Besana (Milan): Symplectic Aspects of Framed Knots. (abs)

• Oxford, Thursday 16th December 2004 (Maths Institute, LR3)
• 2:00 Kenneth Shackleton (Southampton): Tightness and Computing Distances in the Curve Complex. (abs)
• 3:15 Cormac Long (Southampton): Some Results on Coxeter Groups. (abs)

• Oxford, Tuesday 7th December 2004 (Maths Institute, LR3)
• 12:00 & 3:00 Jonathan Kirby (Oxford): Model Theory and Geometry - An Introduction. (abs)
• 2:00 & 4:30 Barrie Cooper (Bath): An Introduction to Derived Categories. (abs)

• Bath, Thursday 11th November 2004 (1W 3.24)
• 2:00 Alexander Kasprzyk (Bath): Introduction to Toric Varieties: Part I. (abs)
• 4:00 Elizabeth Baldwin (Oxford): Introduction to Deligne-Mumford Stacks: Part I. (abs)

• Warwick, Thursday 28th October 2004 (Maths Department, B3.02 and B3.03)
• 12:00 James Smith (Warwick): Introduction to K3 Surfaces: Part I. (abs)
• 3:00 Marco Lo Giudice (Bath): Introduction to Schemes. (abs)

• Bath, Thursday 10th June 2004 (1W 3.24)
• 2:00 Barrie Cooper (Bath): McKay Matrices, CFT Graphs, and Koszul Duality (Part I). (abs)
• 3:15 Michal Kapustka (Krakow): Linear Systems on a K3 Surface. (abs)
• 4:30 Grzegorz Kapustka (Krakow): Linear Systems on an Enriques Surface. (abs)

• Cambridge, Monday 15th March 2004 (MR13, Geometry Pavilion (E))
• 2:00 Joel Fine (Imperial): Constant scalar curvature Kahler metrics on fibred complex surfaces. (abs)
• 3:15 Gil Cavalcanti (Oxford): Massey products in Symplectic Geometry. (abs)
• 4:30 Chris Wuthrich (Cambridge): On p-adic heights in families of elliptic curves. (abs)

• Imperial, Thursday 26th February 2004 (Huxley Building, Room 140)
• 2:00 Daniel Hoyt (Cardiff): Braided categories and TQFTs. (abs)
• 3:15 Gil Cavalcanti (Oxford): Examples of generalized complex structures. (abs)
• 4:30 Oliver Nash (Oxford): An Introduction to Twistor Theory. (abs)

• Oxford, Thursday 5th February 2004 (Maths Institute, SR2)
• 2:00 Tim Browning (Oxford): Arithmetic of del Pezzo surfaces. (abs)
• 3:15 James Smith (Warwick): K3s as quotients of symmetric surfaces. (abs)
• 4:30 Pierre Guillot (Cambridge): Algebraic cycles in the cohomology of finite groups. (abs)

• Bath, Thursday 15th January 2004 (1W 3.24)
• 2:00 Marco Lo Giudice (Bath): Artin level algebras. (abs)
• 3:15 Jasbir Nagi (Cambridge): Graded Riemann spheres. (abs)
• 4:30 Jaroslaw Buczynski (Warsaw): Legendrian varieties. (abs)

• Warwick, Thursday 11th December 2003 (Library Room 1)
• 2:00 Weronika Krych (Warsaw): False weighted projective spaces and Mori theorem for orbifolds. (abs)
• 3:15 Peter Frenkel (Budapest): Fixed point data of finite groups acting on 3-manifolds. (abs)
• 4:30 Vivien Easson (Oxford): Applying algebraic geometry to 3-manifold topology. (abs)