British Mathematical Colloquium
This was held at St Andrews: 4-6 September 1956.
The enrolment was 175.
Organisers were E T Copson
Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below
The plenary speakers were:
| de Rham, G W | Elementary solutions of certain differential equations |
| Hayman, W K | The modern approach to Riemann surfaces |
| Weil, A | Complex multiplication of elliptic and abelian functions |
The morning speakers were:
| Aitken, A C | Schur's dissertation of 1901 |
| Cockcroft, W H | Constructions |
| Collingwood, E F | Cluster sets |
| Edge, W L | Classical groups in finite geometry |
| Fröhlich, A | Normal number fields of degree 8 |
| Mirsky, L | Additive prime number theory |
| Offord, A C | The theory of probability in analysis |
| Robertson, A P | A class of topological vector spaces |
| Willmore, T J | Integrable structures on differentiable manifolds |