British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Glasgow: 9-12 April 2001.

The enrolment was 190.

Organisers were R Odoni

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

The plenary speakers were:

Berestycki, H	Propagation of fronts in periodic media
Broué, M	GL_n over a field with x elements (x an indeterminate)
Damon, H	Periods of modular forms and rational points on elliptic curves
Taubes, C	What we know and don't know about 4-dimensinal manifolds

The morning speakers were:

Bournaveas, N	Low regularity solutions of the Klein-Gordon-Dirac equations
de Jeu, R	Algebraic K-theory and special values of zeta and L-functions
Falconer, K J	Mercerian theorems - old and new
Gordon, C	Dehn surgery on knots
Ivanov, A	Local characterisations of graphs and geometries
Jerrum, M R	Approximating the permanent
König, S	Schur algebras and representations of general linear and symmetric groups
Kozlowski, O	Structural stability in one-dimensional dynamics
Leary, I	Doing things properly with metrics
Levi, R	Homotopy finite group theory
McKee, J F	Snakes, stars, and Salem numbers
Martin, P	A physicist's approach to algebraic representation theory
Nikulin, V V	A theory of Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras
Wilson, R	Victorian combinatorics

Special session: Partial differential equations

Chemin, J-Y	Anisotropy in incompressible viscous fluids
Collet, P	Epsilon entropy per unit volume and related quantities for dissipative PDEs in unbounded domains
Grenier, E	Stability of boundary layers through Green's functions
Shirikyan, A	Ergodicity for the randomly forced equations of mathematical physics

Special session: Modular forms

Buzzard, K	Slopes of modular forms
Gekeler, E -U	Observations about Eisenstein series for the modular group
Tilouine, J	Siegel modular forms and the Taylor-Wiles system