British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Exeter: 12-14 April 1988.

The enrolment was 248.

Organisers were P Vamos

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

The plenary speakers were:

Lovasz, L	Lattice points in convex bodies
Shelah, S	Van der Waerden numbers
Singer, I M	Geometry and string theory

The morning speakers were:

Brown, K A	The zero divisor problem for group rings
Carne, T K	Möbius transformations and the Schwarzian derivative
Davis, M H A	Stochastic analysis and applications to optimisation and control
Gray, J J	Recent progress in the history of mathematics
Hill, R	Optimal error-correcting codes
Morton, H R	Knots and algebras
O'Carroll, L	A uniform Artin-Rees theorem and Zariski's main lemma on holomorphic functions
Praeger, C E	Subgroups of finite symmetric groups
Pride, S J	Some geometric tools of combinatorial group theory
Rogers, L C G	In no time at all: a review of Brownian local time
Sleeman, B D	The complex nature of biology and Hamiltonian dynamics
Sparrow, C T	Chaotic differential equations
Thomason, A G	Some applications of analysis, algebra and number theory in complexity theory
Vaughan, R C	Recent progress in additive number theory
Zeeman, E C	Discussion on "Funding mathematics"