The members of this group include David Olive, Nick Dorey and Tim Hollowood. We run a journal club devoted to noncommutative geometry applied to string theory. Physics Department runs formal and informal seminar series. University of Wales Swansea hosts one of the best mathematical libraries in the country, with many current journals available both in paper and electronic forms, and many books. People often think of Swansea as a run-down industrial town with a lot of pollution and rather depressing wet climate.
Nothing is wider of the truth.
The metal and coal mining industries are gone and so is the pollution they created. Of course it rains quite a lot, but no more than in other places in Britain. Swansea is located at the entry to the Gower peninsula, one of the first areas in Britain awarded the status of the area of outstanding natural beauty. Gower is famous for its unspoiled nature, woodlands, Norman castles, cliffs and bays with sandy beaches. It is a centre of water sports.