British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at St Andrews: 11-14 June 2018.

The enrolment was 172.

Organisers were K Falconer, M Todd and M Quick

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

The plenary speakers were:

DeMarco, L	Complex dynamics and arithmetic equidistribution
Dinur, I	Unique games is 1/2-hard
Hairer, M	Bridging Scales
Joshi, N	Symmetry through Geometry
Seymour, P	Progress on some induced subgraph conjectures
Viana, M	Products of random matrices

The morning speakers were:

Bennett, J	Induction on scales
Cocks, C	The Discovery of Public Key Cryptography
Conlon, D	How to build a hypergraph expander
Eaton, C	Classifying blocks of finite groups
Fellows, M	The Multivariate Revolution in Algorithmics
Gould, V	Biordered sets of idempotents
Kral, D	Analytic representations of large discrete structures
Krieger, H	Unlikely intersections in complex dynamics
Mazzocco, M	The geometry behind the q-Askey scheme
Morris, I	Towards the construction of high-dimensional measures on self-affine sets
Smith, S	Infinite permutation groups
Weber, H	The stochastic quantisation equation - scaling limits, meta-stability and the role of infinity

Public lecture

Wolf, J

Using randomness to find structure

Algebra workshop (Organiser B Martin)

Brown, G	Flops and Calabi-Yau potential
Burness, T	The length and depth of a group
Ciobanu, L	Conjugacy growth in groups
De Visscher, M	Kronecker coefficients and partition algebras
East, J	Congruences on diagram monoids
Everitt, B	(Co)homology of arrangements
Grazian, V	The classification of simple fusion systems
Johnson, M	Two-letter identities of the bicyclic monoid

Analysis and Probability workshop (Organiser H Oh and J Wright)

Carbery, T	A multilinear Maurey factorisation theorem
Forlano, J	Almost sure global well-posedness for the BBM equation with infinite L2 initial data
Gerencsér, M	Quasilinear singular SPDEs within regularity structures
Li, X	Conservation law, stochastic averaging, and intrinsic geometry
Oliveira e Silva, D	Sharp Strichartz inequalities for fractional and higher order Schrödinger equations
Pocovnicu, O	Long time regularity of the 2D Euler-Poisson system for electrons with vorticity
Sohinger, V	Gibbs measures of nonlinear Schrödinger equations as limits of many-body quantum states in dimension d ≤ 3
Tsatsoulis, P	On the long time behaviour of the dynamic φ_2 ^4

Combinatorics workshop (Organiser S Kitaev)

Enright, J	Changing times in temporal graphs to limit disease spread
Jung, J-H	Oriented Riordan graphs
L.B. Yang, A L B	Compatibility of generalized Eulerian polynomials
Meeks, K	Exploiting structure in multi-layer networks: a case study on motif counting
Shur, A	Subword complexity and power avoidance
Smith, J	The Poset of Graphs
Staden, K	Stability via symmetrisation
Zamaraev, V	On the factorial classes of bipartite graphs

Dynamics workshop (Organiser J Fraser)

Azzam, J	Wasserstein distance and rectifiability of measures
Baker, S	Digit frequencies and expansions in non-integer bases
Bochi, J	Optimization of Lyapunov exponents
Jurga, N	A dimension gap for Bernoulli measures for the Gauss map
Kempton, T	On the Hausdorff dimension of Bernoulli convolutions
Rippon, P	Slow escaping points of transcendental entire functions
Robinson, J	Minimal periods in Lipschitz ODEs
Stallard, G	Fast escaping points of transcendental entire functions

History of Mathematics workshop (Organiser I Falconer)

Bailey, R	Latin squares: Some history, with an emphasis on their use in designed experiments.
Mann, T	Mathematics instructors at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Martin, U	The rise of modern patronage, the social, and the impact of mathematics
Moktefi, A	Playing by the rules: Venn versus Carroll
Robertson, E F	Mary Everest Boole: the first mathematical psychologist
Stenhouse, B	Embracing Nature in Formulae: The Hidden Mathematics of Mary Somerville
Tracey, K	Calculating Value: Reading the Scribal Technologies of Early Modern Mathematics
Wess, J	Maths and Maps: A comparison of Mathematical Theory and Cartographic Practice