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British Mathematical Colloquium
This was held at Bath: 3 - 6 April 2023.
The enrolment was 142.
Organisers were K Cherednichenko (Chair), D Loughran, C Mailler, and G Sankaran
Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below
The plenary speakers were:
| Browning, T | Integer points on cubic surfaces and a new heuristic |
| Etingof, P | Lie theory in tensor categories with applications to modular representation theory |
| Perelman, G | Nonlinear dispersive equations: interplay between PDE and integrable systems approaches |
| Quastel, J | Integrable fluctuations in random growth |
| Wendland, K | On generic features in geometry |
The morning speakers were:
| Arezzo, C | Constant scalar curvature metrics on Algebraic manifolds |
| Caputo, P | Random walks on directed random networks |
| Gantert, N | Biased random walk on dynamical percolation |
| Goodwin, S | Primitive ideals of enveloping algebras, modular representations, and W-algebras |
| Hadžić, M | Star dynamics: collapse vs. expansion |
| Houston, K | Problems in UK mathematics education and how to fix them. |
| Miemietz, V | Categorification in representation theory |
| Peluse, S | Arithmetic patterns in dense sets |
| Roney-Dougal, C | Different strokes for different folks |
| Shankar, A | The 2-torsion subgroups of the class groups in families of cubic fields |
| Smith, I | The group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms revisited |
| White, S | Classification of simple amenable C*-algebras |
Public Lecture
| Wright, C | The unexpected maths of juggling |
Algebra workshops
| Stewart, D | A Prolog-assisted search for simple Lie algebras |
| Bowman, C | What has p-Kazhdan-Lusztig theory done for us? |
| Taylor, J | How p-groups impact the representations of finite reductive groups |
| Launois, S | Representation theory of quantum algebras at roots of unity |
| Etingof, P | Open problems in Lie theory in tensor categories |
| Chalykh, O | Geometry of complex crystallographic Calogero-Moser systems |
| Sierra, S | (Pseudo) orbits of functions on the Virasoro algebra |
| Mazzocco, M | Triangulations, cluster algebras and GDAHA |
Analysis workshops
| Bourne, D | Optimal transport and non-optimal weather |
| Gutierrez, S | Self-similar solutions of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation and related problems |
| Wilkinson, M | Invariant measures and representation formulae for hard sphere dynamics |
| Schulze, F | Generic regularity for minimizing hypersurfaces in dimensions 9 and 10 |
| Bögli, S | On the discrete eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators with complex potentials |
| Galkowski, J | Weyl laws and closed geodesics on typical manifolds |
| Hassannezhad, A | Pleijel nodal domain theorem for the Robin eigenvalue problem |
| Iliopoulou, M | Some small progress on the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture |
Geometry workshops
| Shinder, E | Gromov's question on birational maps and the structure of the Grothendieck ring |
| Kaur, I | Birational geometry on blow-ups of projective spaces |
| Thompson, A | Pseudolattices, degenerations, and fibrations of K3 surfaces |
| Mozgovoy, S | Stability conditions of low global dimension |
| Lotay, J | Geometric flows, G2-structures and 3-Sasakian geometry |
| Di Nezza, E | Geodesic distance |
| Kerin, M | Double disk bundles |
Number Theory workshops
| Bloom, T | Egyptian fractions: problems and progress |
| Duker Lichtman, J | A proof of the Erdős primitive set conjecture |
| Schindler, D | Density of rational points near manifolds |
| Vishe, P | A two-dimensional delta method and applications to quadratic forms. |
| Lombardo, D | Kummer theory for algebraic groups and applications |
| Morgan, A | Parity of ranks of abelian varieties |
| Orr, M | Endomorphisms of abelian varieties in families |
| Patel, V | Values of the Ramanujan τ-function |
Probability workshops
| Turner, A | Scaling limits for planar aggregation with subcritical fluctuations |
| Sarkar, S | Universality in random growth processes |
| Cannizzaro, G | Anisotropic KPZ growth: superdiffusive behaviour and Gaussian fluctuations in weak coupling |
| Shamis, M | Upper bounds on quantum dynamics |
| Šarkovič, A | Cutoff for random walk on random graphs with a community structure |
| Olesker-Taylor, S | Metastability for loss networks |
| Jansen, S | Free energies and effective interfaces for the high-density Widom-Rowlinson model |
| Chleboun, P | Mixing times for facilitated exclusion processes |
Outreach workshops
| Wilson, R | Spreading the word: a historical and personal perspective |
| Grime, J | Making your first YouTube video |
| Hart, S | Maths in the arts and humanities: overcoming the fear factor |
| Sparks, B | Moving Maths: Dynamic Visualisations in Teaching and Outreach |
| Dorris, R | History and perspective: mathematics outreach at the Royal Institution |
| Gill, E | Mathematics Outreach: the what, why and how |
| Holland, R | MathsCity - on the journey to our first national mathematics discovery centre |
| Budd, C | Climate, chaos and Covid; adventures in communicating mathematical modelling |