British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Newcastle: 10-13 April 2006.

The enrolment was 202.

Organisers were A Duncan

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

The plenary speakers were:

Higson, N	Dimensions in C*-algebras
Kac, V	Quantization and chiralization
Kirillov, A	A tale of two fractals
Mihailescu, P	Cyclotomic norm equations and Catalan's Conjecture

The morning speakers were:

Bielawski, R	The geometry of monopoles
Blower, G	Transportation inequalities with applications to random matrices and Markov processes
Dafermos, M	The red-shift effect and decay rates for the wave equation of a Schwarzschild black hole exterior
Farber, M	Topology and robot motion planning
Howie, J	Limits of free groups
Niblo, G	Property T from a geometric group theorist's point of view
Partington, J R	The classical moment problem and beyond
Read, C J	Fun and games with non-standard ideals
Schocker, M	The Solomon descent algebra
Scholl, A J	Recent progress on Serre's conjecture
Shargorodsky, E	Stokes waves, Bernoulli free boundaries and the Riemann-Hilbert problem
Smyth, C	Salem numbers: recent developments
Snashall, N	Representation theory and support varieties for modules

Public lecture

Acheson, D

1089 and all that

Special session: Analysis and geometry on groups, Organisers: A J Duncan and G Niblo

Baum, P	What is an equivariant index?
Valette, A	Quasi-isometric embeddings of groups and growth of 1-cocycles
Zuk, A	Automata groups

Special session: Operator theory, Organisers: M A Dritschel and J R Partington

Arendt, W	Perturbation of generators, cosine functions and functional calculus
Englis, M	Toeplitz operators and group representations
Shapiro, J	On the Toeplitzness of composition operators