British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at York: 25-28 March 2008.

The enrolment was 230.

Organisers were C Wood

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

The plenary speakers were:

Joseph, T	Quantum groups: introducing q into Lie theory.
Montgomery, H L	Forty years ago in Cambridge
Smirnov, S	Conformal invariance of lattice models.
Venkatesh, A	Dynamics and the geometry of numbers.

The morning speakers were:

Cox, A	Diagram algebras and Lie theory.
Cremona, J	Reduction of binary forms over imaginary quadratic fields.
Dorey, P	Spectral problems and the Bethe Ansatz.
Goodwin, S	Highest weight theory for finite W -algebras.
Hurley, T C	Algebras and communications.
Sherratt. J	Periodic travelling waves in field vole populations.
Smith, I	Hunting Lagrangian submanifolds.
Snaith, N	Recent applications of random matrix theory to number theory.
Tribe, R	Some stochastic reaction diffusion models
Vivaldi, F	The dynamics of piecewise isometries.
Weiss, M	Mumford conjecture, Pontryagin-Thom construction and sheaf theoretic methods.
Wright, J	Discrete analogues in harmonic analysis.

Other lectures

Budd, C	Confessions of an industrial mathematician
Robertson, E F	The Edinburgh Mathematical Society: the first 50 years (1883 - 1933)

Special session: Differential Geometry and Geometric Analysis, Organisers: C Wood, and J Wood

Bugeaud, Y	On the decimal expansion of an algebraic number
Conrey, B	42
Wooley, T	Waring's problem in function fields.

Special session: Number Theory, Organisers: J Levesley, and G Harman

Hélein, F	Covariant Hamiltonian description of relativistic fields and the construction of observable quantities
Karigiannis, S	G_2 manifolds with isolated conical singularities.
Micallef, M	Harmonic maps between complete, noncompact negatively curved manifolds.

Special session: Stochastic PDEs and Stochastic Analysis, Organisers: Z Brzezniak, and D Elworthy

Romito, M	Some recent results concerning the 3D Navier-Stokes equations driven by a random force.
Thalmeier, A	Brownian motion of Jordan curves and stochastic calculus on the diffeomorphism group of the circle
Truman, A	On the Divine Clockwork and stochastic mechanics.