British Mathematical Colloquium
This was held at York: 25-28 March 2008.
The enrolment was 230.
Organisers were C Wood
Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below
The plenary speakers were:
Joseph, T
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Quantum groups: introducing q into Lie theory. |
Montgomery, H L
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Forty years ago in Cambridge |
Smirnov, S
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Conformal invariance of lattice models. |
Venkatesh, A
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Dynamics and the geometry of numbers. |
The morning speakers were:
Cox, A
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Diagram algebras and Lie theory. |
Cremona, J
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Reduction of binary forms over imaginary quadratic fields. |
Dorey, P
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Spectral problems and the Bethe Ansatz. |
Goodwin, S
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Highest weight theory for finite W -algebras. |
Hurley, T C
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Algebras and communications. |
Sherratt. J
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Periodic travelling waves in field vole populations. |
Smith, I
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Hunting Lagrangian submanifolds. |
Snaith, N
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Recent applications of random matrix theory to number theory. |
Tribe, R
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Some stochastic reaction diffusion models |
Vivaldi, F
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The dynamics of piecewise isometries. |
Weiss, M
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Mumford conjecture, Pontryagin-Thom construction and sheaf theoretic methods. |
Wright, J
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Discrete analogues in harmonic analysis. |
Other lectures
Budd, C
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Confessions of an industrial mathematician |
Robertson, E F
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The Edinburgh Mathematical Society: the first 50 years (1883 - 1933) |
Special session: Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis, Organisers: C Wood, and J Wood
Bugeaud, Y
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On the decimal expansion of an algebraic number |
Conrey, B
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Wooley, T
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Waring's problem in function fields. |
Special session: Number Theory, Organisers: J Levesley, and G Harman
Hélein, F
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Covariant Hamiltonian description of relativistic fields and the construction of observable quantities |
Karigiannis, S
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G_2 manifolds with isolated conical singularities. |
Micallef, M
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Harmonic maps between complete, noncompact negatively curved manifolds. |
Special session: Stochastic PDEs and Stochastic Analysis, Organisers: Z Brzezniak, and D Elworthy
Romito, M
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Some recent results concerning the 3D Navier-Stokes equations driven by a random force. |
Thalmeier, A
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Brownian motion of Jordan curves and stochastic calculus on the diffeomorphism group of the circle |
Truman, A
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On the Divine Clockwork and stochastic mechanics. |