British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Belfast (Joint with IMS): 5-8 April 2004.

The enrolment was 232.

Organisers were M Mathieu

The partner for this BMC was IMS

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

The plenary speakers were:

Kechris, A	Fraisse limits, Ramsey theory and topological dynamics of automorphism groups
Patterson, S J	Squaring circles and circling squares: Gauss's Circle Problem
Pisier, G	Factorization of completely bounded maps on "exact" C*-algebras and operator spaces
Procesi, C	The role of the Cayley-Hamilton identity in representation theory
Zelmanov, E	On large pro-p groups
Ziegler, G	On the combinatorics of the 3-sphere

The morning speakers were:

Buckley, S	Gromov hyperbolicity for analysts
Carne, T K	How an analytic functio changes the length of a radius
Carroll, T	Harmonic measure in parabola-shaped regions in </i><b>R</b><i><sup>n</sup>
Dineen, S	Banach-valued spectra
Ellis, G	Polytopes and the cohomology of groups
Huggett, S	Tutte polynomials of links, graphs and matroids
Marsh, R	Cluster algebras and tilting theory
Merkulov, S	Infinity constructions of local geometries
Pfeiffer, G	Subgroups and cosets in infinite Coxeter groups
Pott, S	Admisaability of observation operators and vector BMO functions
Rees, S M	Dynamics and automatic structure of groups
Wood, A	The influence of G C Stokes on the modern asymptotic theory of differential equations

Special session: Non-commutative functional analysis, Organisers: R Archbold and M Mathieu

Junge, M	Embedding of the operator space OH and related results
Neufang, M	Quantisation in abstract harmonic analysis
Rordam, M	Purely infinite C*-algebras

Special session: Combinatorics, Organisers: J Siemons and L Helbeisen

Brightwell, G R	The number of linear extensions of a partially ordered set
Riordan, O	Scale-free random graphs
Scott, A	Independent sets, lattice gases and the Lovasz local lemma