British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Liverpool (Joint with BAMC): 4-7 April 2005.

The enrolment was 520.

Organisers were P Giblin

The partner for this BMC was BAMC

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

The plenary speakers were:

Ball, J M	Open problems in the calculus of variations and elasticity
Berry, M V	Physics of nonhermitian degeneracies
Elkies, N	Recent progress in sphere packing
Fantechi, B	Stacky techniques in enumerative geometry
Friedman, A	Bifurcation from stability to instability in free boundary problems
Khovanskii, A	The solvability and unsolvability of equations in finite terms
McDuff, D	Remarks on groups of symplectomorphisms
Maz'ya, V	Unsolved mysteries of solutions to PDEs near the boundary
Milton, G	Composite materials: an old field of study full of new surprises
Toland, J F	Standing waves
Werner, J	Mathematical aspects of the scaling limit of 2-d critical systems

The morning speakers were:

Davis, M H A	Complete market models for option trading with stochastic volatility
Etheridge, A M	Some mathematical challenges from population genetics
Gordon, I	Symplectic reflection algebras
Heath-Brown, R	Counting rational points on algebraic varieties
Lackenby, M	The geometry anf topology of finite Cayley grphs
Luzzato, S	Rigorous numerical and probabilistic methods in dynamical systems
Mond, D	Free divisors and how they multiply
Robson, E	Mathematics and society in ancient Iraq
Schroer, J	From preprojective algebras to Lie algebras
Thomas, R	Counting curves - a survey of MNOP theory
Wood, J C	Harmonic morphisms
Wulff, C	Stability of Poisson equilibria

Special session: Algebraic and arithmetic geometry, Organisers: E V Flynn and P Newstead

Bruin, N	Exhibiting elements of Tate-Shafarevich groups of Abelian varieties
Peternell, T	Pseudo-effective line bundles and the canonical bundle
Verra, A	Unirationality problems for algebraic varieties and moduli spaces

Special session: Differential Equations, Organiser: E Shargorodsky

Chilton, D	The spectral representaion of two-point BVPs for arbitrary order linear evolution PDEs
Dodds, N	Spectral properties of non-local operators
Hydon, P	Symmetries of initial-value problems
Kamotski, V	2D Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities