British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Sussex: 2-4 April 1974.

The enrolment was 482.

Organisers were W Ledermann


Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below


The plenary speakers were:

Bass, H A brief history of algebraic K-theory
Brieskorn, E Topology of singularities and related topics
Stampacchia, G Various applications of the theory of variational inequalities

The morning speakers were:

Beineke, L W Graphs on surfaces, colourings, coverings and crossings
Binmore, K G Functional analytic applications in classical analysis
Diamond, H G Iterative methods in sieve theory
Douglas, R Compact perturbations, extensions of C*-algebras and K-homology
Eggleston, H G Slightly more general convexity theory
Ellis, A J Some applications of convexity theory
Epstein, D B A Natural tensors in Riemannian manifolds
Griffiths, H B Is there any mathematics in Mathematical Education?
Gruenberg, K W Some properties of the symmetric group of degree three
Irwin, M C Smooth dynamical systems
Powell, M B Placing' theorems for finite groups and some applications thereof
Priddy, S B Derived functors of the symmetric algebra
Ray, N Do topologists need coherence?
Rees, D Generators of ideals and modules
Robson, J C Some rings of differential polynomials
Scott, D S Sheaves and logic
Vaughan, R C Recent work in additive prime number theory
Wright, J D M Functional analysis for the practical man