Distinguished lectures/CLOWN-network:

CLOWN is a City Leicester Oxford Warwick network, continuing LOW, the Leicester Oxford Warwick study group in algebraic Lie theory. CLOWN meetings will happen a few times a year in form of one-day or two-day meetings. The aim is to introduce PhD students and young researchers to recent developments in representation theory and to provide a platform for young people. Everyone is welcome to attend. Details can be found on the CLOWN-homepage. There will be distinguished lecturers who will give lectures at the UK partner institutions. These will take place in the framework of CLOWN.

Summerschools, Workshops and Conferences:

• Summerschool on Derived Categories in Representation Theory (with a view towards geometry and topology)22-26 August 2005
  Location: Sino-German Science Centre in Beijing
  Organizer: Bangming Deng, Steffen Koenig, Henning Krause, Jie Xiao
• AsiaLink Conference -- International Conference in Algebras and Representations: 23-28 May 2005
  Location: Tsinghua University, Beijing
  Organizer: Bangming Deng, Anne Henke, Jun Hu, Steffen Koenig, Yuming Liu, Kaishun Wang, Changchang Xi, Yingbo Zhang
• Homology, Geometry, and Combinatorics of Representations 29-30 May 2005
  Location: Sino-German Science Centre in Beijing
  Organizer: Bangming Deng, Jie Xiao, Henning Krause
  
• Cellular and diagram algebras in mathematics and physics3-10 April 2005
  Location: University of Oxford
  Organizer: Karin Erdmann, Steffen Koenig, Paul Martin and Changchang Xi
  
• Ninth National Algebra Conference of China: 9- 13 October 2004
  Location: Huangshan City, Yellow Mountain
  
• Representation Theory and its Applications, a satellite conference to the fourth European Congress of Mathematics, 22-27 June 2004
  Location: Uppsala, Sweden
  
• Workshop on Representations and Structures of Algebras: 17-21 May 2004,
  Location: Beijing Normal University
  Organizer: Changchang Xi (xicc@bnu.edu.cn).
  

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellows in the project:

The following postdoctorial researchers have been spending or are spending some time at a UK partner institution:

• Yunge Xu (Hubei University) is visiting Oxford for three months in 2005/06.
• Yuming Liu (Beijing Normal University) is visiting Leicester for six months, starting October 2005
• Intan Muchtadi (Amiens) is visiting Leicester for two months, starting summer 2005
• Qiang Fu (Tongji University Shanghai) is visiting Oxford for six months, starting January 2005.
• Anna Osinvoskaya (Minsk) is visting Leicester for two months, starting October 2004
• Libin Li (Yangzhou University) is visiting Leicester for six months, starting in summer 2004.