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British Mathematical Colloquium
This was held at Kent: 16-19 April 2012.
The enrolment was 148.
Organisers were P Fleischmann
Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below
The plenary speakers were:
| Bessenrodt, C | On the combinatorics of quasisymmetric functions |
| Lorenz, M | Prime ideals and group actions in noncomutative algebra |
| Reiten, I | Quivers in representation theory |
| Soare, R | Mathematics and the Turing Renaissance |
| Tretter, C | Operator theory and applications: a fruitful interplay |
The morning speakers were:
| Black, S | Computer says Yes! |
| Brown, K | How smooth is a noncommutative group? |
| Camina, R | The Nottingham group -- an introduction and a survey of recent results |
| Drutu, C | On limit spaces and actions of groups |
| Evans, D | A spectral analysis of compact linear operators in Banach space |
| Harel, D | Computers are not omnipotent |
| Luczak, M | Markov chain models of complex systems |
| Parnovski, L | Multidimensional periodic and almost-periodic spectral problems: Bethe-Sommerfeld Conjecture and integrated density of states |
| Rees, S | The word problem and normal forms in Artin groups |
| Symonds, P | Group actions on polynomial rings |
| Taorima, A | K3 elliptic genus: a glimpse of new Moonshine |
| von Below, J | Can one hear the shape of a graph? |
Public lecture
| Hodges, A | The Life and Work of Alan Turing. |
Workshop: Algebraic Transformation Groups (organisers P Fleischmann and RJ Shank)
| Baland, S | Modules of constant Jordan type for elementary abelian p-groups |
| Braun, A | The Gorenstein property and modular invariants |
| Dufresne, E | The separating variety for representations of the additive group |
| Elmer, J | Separating invariants and localisation |
| Ferreira, J | The Invariant Fields of the Sylow p-subgroups of Finite Classical Groups |
| Gill, C | Tensor products of Young modules and p-multiples of partitions |
| Kohls, M | The Dihedral groups in characteristic 2: Invariants Coinvariants and Groebner Bases |
| Sezer, M | On modular invariants of the Klein-four group |
| Stancu, R | Fusion systems for profinite groups. |
Workshop: Mathematics Education : Assessment Practices (organisers P Iannone</b>, A Simpson and O Radu)
| Chadwick, E | Evaluating assessment practices in a Business and Industrial Mathematics module |
| Garret, S | Towards an efficient approach for examining employabilty skills |
| Graham, D | Audience Response devices for formative and summative assessment |
| Hernandez-Martinez, P | Mathematics Lecturers' Practice and Perception of Computer-Aided Assessment |
| Hetherington, T | Assessing proofs in pure mathematics |
| Iannone, P | The mini case studies: examples of assessment practices |
| Jones, I | Summative peer assessment of undergraduate calculus using Adaptive Comparative Judgement |
| Radu, O | The survey of assessment practices |
| Radu, O | The literature review on assessment |
| Simpson, A | Performance Assessment in Mathematics -- Preliminary Empirical Research |
Workshop: Mathematical Physics (organisers C Dunning and A Hone)
| England, M | Building Abelian functions with generalised Hirota operators |
| Kemp, G | Geometric quanitzation Dirac monopoles and coadjoint orbits |
| Lombardo, S | The unexpected simplicity of Automorphic Lie Algebras |
| Speight, M | Solitons on tori and soliton crystals |
| Taormina, A | K3 elliptic genus: glimpse of a new Moonshine |
| Tateo, R | Bethe Ansatz and nonlinear wave equations |
| Veselov, A | Universality in Lie algebras and Chern-Simons theory |
| Viti, J | Universal properties of two-dimensional percolation |
| Young, C | Quantum Affine Algebras and Extended T-systems |
Workshop: Noncommutative Geometry (organiser S Launois)
| Iyudu, N | The Anick conjecture on the minimal Hilbert series of quadratic algebras |
| Kraehmer, U | Batalin-Vilkovisky Structures on Ext and Tor |
| Lopez, J | Noncommutative geometry of fiinite groups |
| McGerty, K | Quantum Hamiltonian reduction and Derived Equivalences |
| O'Buachalla, R | Quantum Groups and Noncommutative Kahler Geometry |
| Sierra, S | Graded maximal orders in a generic Sklyanin algebra |
| Spencer, C | Harish-Chandra bimodules of some rational Cherednik algebras at regular parameter values |
| Wadsley, S | Non-commutative rigid analytic spaces |
Workshop: Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry (organisers G Brown and S Siksek)
| Elkin, A | Computing de Rham comohology of p-covers of the projective line in characteristic p |
| Farwa, S | Exact holomorphic differentials in characteristics 2 and 3 |
| Fisher, T | Visibility of Tate-Shafarevich groups in abelian threefolds |
| Kasprzyk, A | Hunting for Fano varieties via extremal Laurent polynomials |
| Newton, R | The Artin-Wedderburn Theorem and local Tate duality |
| Testa, D | The surface of cuboids and Siegel modular threefolds |
Workshop: Operator Theory (organisers B Lemmens and I Wood)
| Batty, C | Quasi-hyperbolic operators and semigroups |
| Bolte, J | Many-particle quantum graphs |
| Brown, M | A uniqueness result for one-dimensional inverse scattering |
| Eveson, S | Some unexpected rank 1 asymptotics |
| Langer, M | Triple variational principles for self-adjoint operator functions |
| Marletta, M | Approximating the spectra of self-adjoint and dissipative operators |
| Rule, D | An end-point result for bilinear Fourier integral operators |
| Winn, B | Quantum ergodicity for expander graphs with large girth |
Workshop: Turing's legacy in Mathematics and Computer Science
| Chu, D | The biological cell as a stochastic computer |
| Cockshott, P | How physics constrains real value calculation |
| Hogarth, M | The Church-Turing Thesis is a pseudo-proposition |
| Michaelson, G | The limits to computation |
| Montanaro, A | The Church-Turing thesis in a quantum world |
| Richards, B | Turing's Legacy and AI: Two perspectives |
| Stannett, M | Computing via Physical Theories |