British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Royal Holloway: 14-17 April 1997.

The enrolment was 190.

Organisers were J W Essam

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

The plenary speakers were:

Fulton, W	An algebraic geometer looks at cohomology
Lions, P	On compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations
Lubotzky, A	Property tau and its applications in combinatorics, geometry and group theory

The morning speakers were:

Ball, J M	Quasi-regular mappings and austenite-martensite interfaces
Blackburn, S R	Linear automata, continued fractions and orthogonal polynomials
Clarke, F W	Formal group laws on algebraic topology
Cooper, S B	Turing definability
Davies, E B	How to compute the spectrum of (some) partial differential operators and difference operators
Fenn, R A	Advances in algebraic topology over the last 30 years
Langley, J K	Meromorphic functions and their derivatives
Lehrer, G I	Discriminant varieties, Lie groups and representation theory
McMullen, P	Thirty years of convex polytopes
Macpherson, H D	Infinite Jordan permutation groups
Mitchell, C J	De Bruijn sequences, discrete logarithms and cryptography
Montesinos, J M	Geometric structures on cone manifolds
Neumann, P M	Random matrices over finite fields
Penrose, R	The twistor approach to space-time geometry
Pollicott, M	The asymptotic behaviour of hyperbolic flows
Power, S C	Towers of finite-dimensional algebras
Roe, J	Topological manifolds and their derivatives
Taylor, M J	L-functions and Euler characteristics

Special session: Low dimensional topology, Organiser: R Fenn

Boileau, M	On non-zero maps between 3-manifolds
Fenn, R	Advances in algebraic topology over the last thirty years
Martesinos, J M	Geometric structures on cone manifolds
Rolfsen, D	Braid groups

Special session: Partial differential equations, Organiser: E B Davies

Brezis, H	Recent developments on the Ginzburg Landau equation in 2D
Davies, E B	How to compute the spectrum of (some) partial differential operators and difference operators
Hempel, R	The colours of ruby and sapphire as a eigenvalue problem for Schrodinger operators
Vassiliev, D	An introduction to microlocal analysis