British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at UMIST: 9-12 April 1996.

The enrolment was 280.

Organisers were R Bryant

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

The plenary speakers were:

Casson, A	The geometric topology of 3-manifolds
Wiles, A	Elliptic curves and Fermat's Last Theorem
Zelmanov, E

The morning speakers were:

Anthony, M H G	Mathematical problems in "Learning theory"
Barrow-Green, J E	Poincaré and the discovery of chaos
Berry, M V	The Riemann-Siegel formula for the zeta function
Bridson, M R	Non-positive curvature and group theory
Cameron, P J	Sum-free sets
Crawley-Boevey, W	Deformations of the preprojective algebra
Davie, A M	The dynamics of circle maps
Everest, G R	How high is a polynomial?
Flynn, E V	Rational points on curves
Hitchin, N J	Hyperkäler geometry
Holland, M P	Grothendieck groups of primitive factors of enveloping algebras of semi-simple Lie algebras
James, G D	Representations of symmetric groups
Jones, J D S	Morse theory and flow categories
MacKay, R S	Optimal timetabling of a 24-hour shuttle bus service
Partington, J R	Interpolation and reconstruction of algebraic functions

Special session: Combinatorics, Organiser: P J Cameron

Alon, N	The geometry of coin-weighing problems
Blokhuis, A	Special sets in finite projective lines
Sloane, N J A	Arranging planes so that they are as far apart as possible: packings in Grassmanian manifolds

Special session: Differential geometry/Mathematical physics, Organiser: N J Hitchin

Burstall, F	Harmonic 2-spheres in Lie groups and the Bruhat decomposition of the loop group
Merkulov, S	Classification of Segre holonomies of torsion-free affine connections
Nakajima, H	Monopoles and Nahm's equation
Sutcliffe, P	Monopoles and Platonic symmetry