British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Manchester: 6-9 April 1998.

The enrolment was 200.

Organisers were R Plymen

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

The plenary speakers were:

Connes, A	Non-commutative geometry and the Riemann zeta function
Macdonald, I G	Constant term identities
Uhlenbeck, K K	Geometric partial differential equations: a comparison between elliptic and hyperbolic theory
Woodin, W H	Logical themes in descriptive set theory

The morning speakers were:

Baker, A J	Arithmetic invariants and periodicity in stable homotopy theory
Boca, F P	Topics on non-commutative tori
Bushnell, C J	The local Langlands conjecture - some recent progress
Du Sautoy, M P F	Zeta functions of groups: a tool for counting p-groups
Fesenko, I B	The wild group
Goryunov, V V	Unitary reflection groups and functions with cyclic symmetry
Hunton, J R	Topological invariants for quasi-periodic tilings
Keating, J P	Random matrix theory and the Riemann zeros
Lyons, T J	Non-linear systems driven by rough paths
McKee, J F	How to factorise small numbers, slowly
Premet, A A	Recent progress in the classification of finite-dimensonal simple Lie algebras in prime characteristic
Rickard, J C	Some conjectures in representation theory
Saxl, J	Groups and graphs
van den Berg, M	Heat flow and spectral asyptotics

Special session: Mathematical logic, Organiser: A J Macintyre

Boffa, M	Rational identities related to finite automata structure
Gardener, T	Rigid subanalytic geometry
Macintyre, A J	Non-standard aspects of algebraic geometry
Macpherson, H D	Weakly o-minimal structures

Special session: Dynamical Systems, Organiser: S M Rees

van Strien, S J	Real and holomorphic dynamics of real polynomials, an overview
Yoccoz, J-C	Dynamics near homoclinic bifurcations
Young, L-S	The speed of mixing in chaotic dynamical systems