British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Sussex: 2-4 April 1974.

The enrolment was 482.

Organisers were W Ledermann

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

The plenary speakers were:

Bass, H	A brief history of algebraic K-theory
Brieskorn, E	Topology of singularities and related topics
Stampacchia, G	Various applications of the theory of variational inequalities

The morning speakers were:

Beineke, L W	Graphs on surfaces, colourings, coverings and crossings
Binmore, K G	Functional analytic applications in classical analysis
Diamond, H G	Iterative methods in sieve theory
Douglas, R	Compact perturbations, extensions of C*-algebras and K-homology
Eggleston, H G	Slightly more general convexity theory
Ellis, A J	Some applications of convexity theory
Epstein, D B A	Natural tensors in Riemannian manifolds
Griffiths, H B	Is there any mathematics in Mathematical Education?
Gruenberg, K W	Some properties of the symmetric group of degree three
Irwin, M C	Smooth dynamical systems
Powell, M B	Placing' theorems for finite groups and some applications thereof
Priddy, S B	Derived functors of the symmetric algebra
Ray, N	Do topologists need coherence?
Rees, D	Generators of ideals and modules
Robson, J C	Some rings of differential polynomials
Scott, D S	Sheaves and logic
Vaughan, R C	Recent work in additive prime number theory
Wright, J D M	Functional analysis for the practical man