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British Mathematical Colloquium
This was held at Galway: 6-9 April 2009.
The enrolment was 206.
Organisers were T Hurley
The partner for this BMC was IMS
Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below
The plenary speakers were:
| Eisenbud, E | Plato's Cave: What we still don't know about linear projections in Algebraic Geometry |
| Graham, R | The combinatorics of solving linear equations |
| Green, B | Approximate structure in additive combinatorics |
| Grigorchuk, R | Hanoi Tower game and self-similar groups |
| Kirwan, F | Quotients of algebraic varieties by group actions |
The morning speakers were:
| Berndt, J | Foliations and cohomogeneity one actions |
| Carbery, T | Tube-nullity and Fourier Analysis: results and open problems |
| Kilian, M | Flows of constant mean curvature surfaces |
| Leary, I | An infinite Smith group |
| Mathieu, M | On some non-commutative Banach-Stone theorems |
| O'Brien, É | Towards effective algorithms for linear groups |
| Olsen, L | Multifractals, Baire category and prevalence |
| Osinga, H | The Lorenz manifold: from mathematics to steel |
| Twarock, R | Applications of Group Theory in Virology: Affine extensions of noncrystallographic groups predicting virus architecture |
| Welsh, D | The Random Planar Graph |
Other lectures
| Gow, R | From George Salmon and 27 lines to octonions, E_6 and beyond |
| Körner, T | Mathematics and Smallpox |
| Laffey, T | The Nonnegative Inverse Eigenvalue Problem |
Special session: Analysis
| Csörnyei, M | Differentiability of Lipschitz functions and other problems in geometric measure theory |
| Gardiner, S | Harmonic functions outside a cylinder |
| Haydon, R | On the scalar-plus-compact problem |
| Todorov, I | Stable isomorphism of dual operator spaces |
Special session: Computational Algebra
| Cohen, A | Constructions of curves with given groups of automorphisms |
| Eick, B | Isomorphism testing for algebras (Lie or associative) |
| Flannery, D | On deciding finiteness of matrix groups |
| Galbraith, S | Elliptic curves and public key cryptography |
| McGuire, G | Some computational algebra in cryptography |
| Malle, G | Computing in Hecke algebras |
Special session: Mathematical Education
| Bass, H | Mathematics Education research: What's in it for the Mathematicians? |
| Cleary, J | Mathematical Literacy and Self-efficacy of First Year Third Level Students |
| MacanBhaird, C | The Impact of Mathematics Support on Students' Grades and their Attitudes towards Mathematics |
| Mestel, B | Teaching mathematics with online tutorials |
| Pfeiffer, K | How Do First Year Mathematics Students Validate Mathematical Arguments? |