British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Warwick (Joint with BAMC): 7-12 April 2002.

Organisers were A Newall

The partner for this BMC was BAMC

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

The plenary speakers were:

Birman, J	Recognising the unknot
Chapman, J	Subcritical transition in channel flows
Daubechies, I	Wavelets and their applications
Diaconis, P	The search for randomness
Green, J A	The history of representation theory
Karp, R	Mathematical and algorithmic challenges from molecular life sciences
Mumford, D	Some surprises when mathematics meets vision
Papanicolaou, G	Array imaging, time reversal and communication in random media
Sarnak, P	Eigenfunctions on arithmetic surfaces
Trefethen, N	Wave packet pseudomodes of matrices and differential operators
Zakharov, V	Theory of weak turbulence and its numeric and experimental confirmation

The morning speakers were:

Ball, K	Entropy jumps in the presence of a spectral gap
Chatters, A W	Semi-prime Noetherian rings of injective dimension one
Chatters, A	Semi-prime Noetherian rings of injective dimension one
Cohn, P M	Non-commutative localization
Crawley-Boevey, W	Representations of algebras, vector bundles with parabolic structure and monodromy
Curtis, R T	Using monomial modular representations to construct pre-images of sporadic groups
Dales, H G	The amenability of measure algebras
de Jeu, R	K-theory, regulators and L-functions for curves over number fields
Dickinson, D	Diophantine approximation on manifolds
Dietmar, A	Lefschetz formulae, trace formulae and zeta functions
Gray, J J	F S Macaulay - an English schoolmaster and abstract algebra
Halbeisen, L	Making doughnuts of Cohen reals
Kazarian, M	Multisingularities and cobordisms
Marklov, J	Values of quadratic forms at lattice points
Stedall, J	Conspiring with the gods: the mathematics of William Brouncker (c. 1620 - 1684)
Tillmann, U	The topology of surface bundles
Veselov, A	Deformed root systems and quantum integrability
Zelevinsky, A	Cluster alggebras: foundations and finite type clasification

Special session: Braids and low-dimensional topology

Crisp, J	Cube complexes and the conjugacy problem for graph braid groups
Dehornoy, P	From set theory to braids via self-distributive algebra
Krammer, D	Mapping class group actions on ordered sets
Teichner, P	Graph cobordism of classical knots

Special session: Quantum phenomema, Organisers: G Friesecke and L Mason

Dowker, F	The deep quantum structure of spacetime
Josza, R	Quantum computation - some theoretical challenges
Parnovski, L	Bethe-Sommerfeld conjecture and periodic differential operators

Special session: Random matrices operators and polynomials, Organiser: Y Fyodorov

Davies, E B	Spectral properties of random non-self-adjoint matrices and operators
Hambly, B	The characteristic polynomials of random permutation matrices
Khoruzhenko, B	Regularity in the complex spectra of random circulat Jacobi matrices

Special session: Geometry topology and mechanics</b> Organiser: M Roberts