British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Birmingham: 7-10 April 2003.

The enrolment was 278.

Organisers were R Curtis

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

The plenary speakers were:

Alperin, J L	The stable equivalence problem
Andrews, G	Ramanujan's lost notebook, reflections after 27 years of study
Conway, J H	Groups and lattices
Gowers, T	Interactions between harmonic analysis and combinatorial number theory
Harris, M	The local Langlands conjecture

The morning speakers were:

Bavula, V	Maximal commutative subalgebras of simple infinite-dimensional algebras
Bridgeland, T	Derived categories in algebraic geometry
Bridson, M R	Curvature and decidability in geometry and group theory
Chuang, J	Symmetric groups and derived categories
Csörnyei, M	Absolutely continuous functions
Erdmann, K	Symmetry and fractals
Gow, R	New light on William Rowan Hamilton
Grojnowski, I	Hilbert schemes and integrable systems
Körner, T	Besicovitch via Baire
Preiss, D	Negligible sets, differentiability and a few strange remarks
Robertson, E F	Tait, Maxwell and knot theory
Series, C M	Recent developments in hyperbolic geometry
Slaman, T	On the Turing jump
Strickland, N P	Elliptic cohomology
Wilkie, A J	0-minimality
Willis, G A	A canonical form for automorphisms of totally disconnected groups

Special lecture

Singh, S

Cracking the cipher challenge

Special session: Group theory, Organiser: C Parker

Meierfrankenfeld, U	Groups of local characteristic p
Segal, D	Subgroups of profinite groups and uniform bounds for finite groups
Tent, K	Characterizing groups of Lie type

Special session: Analytic topology, Organiser: J Greenlees

Mill, J van	Complete Erdős space is unstable
Watson, S

Special session: Mathematics Education, Organiser: T Gardiner

Aharoni, R	What I learnt in primary school
Laursen, K B	Can the goals of mathematics teaching be phrased in competency terms?
Robson, J C	Current activities in mathematics education in the UK