British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Edinburgh: 29-31 March 1977.

The enrolment was 429.

Organisers were J D P Meldrum

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

The plenary speakers were:

Bott, R H	On recent developments in the theory of characteristic classes
Choquet, G	A survey of integral representation theory and its applications
Green, J A	Representations of semisimple groups

The morning speakers were:

Baker, R C	Mahler's classification of transcendental numbers
Brannan, D A	Sixty years of the Bieberbach conjecture for univalent functions
Coates, J	The conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer
Collins, M J	The identification problem for finite simple groups
Davies, R O	Semi-continuity of length
Everitt, W N	On one form of a principle of Littlewood in analysis
Giblin, P J	Jet spaces and geometry
Hunter, J	A topic in mathematical education: student self-learning
Johnson, B E	Stability of Banach algebras
Kearton, C	Hermitian forms arising in knot theory
Macbeath, A M	Modular groups and their geometry
Paris, J B	An application of logic to number theory
Passmann, D S	The Jacobson radical of a group ring of a locally solvable group
Patterson, S J	Differential operators and discontinuous groups
Segal, G B	The cohomology of topological groups
Sibson, R	Computing and using plane tessellations
Stewart, I N	Inverse limit methods in infinite Lie algebras
Woodall, D R	Beyond the four-colour theorem