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British Mathematical Colloquium
This was held at Cambridge (Joint with BAMC): 30 March-2 April 2015.
The enrolment was 580.
Organisers were R D Camina
The partner for this BMC was BAMC
Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below
The plenary speakers were:
| Calderbank, R | The Art of Measurement |
| Kronheimer, P | Existence theorems in low-dimensional topology |
| Osher, S | The impact of L1 optimization in Nonlinear PDE |
| Serfaty, S | Crystallization questions for systems with Coulomb and Riesz interactions |
| Werner, W | Random phenomena within fractal carpets |
| Wiles, A | On the arithmetic of ideal class groups |
The morning speakers were:
| Bayer, A | Positivity in algebraic geometry via the derived category |
| Browning, T | Rational curves on varieties over finite fields via analytic number theory |
| Constantin, A | Particle Trajectories Beneath Irrotational Travelling Water Waves |
| Dzamonja, M | Current challenges in foundations of mathematics, logic |
| Kurylev, Y | Inverse problems in general relativity |
| Nucinkis, B | Cohomological finiteness conditions for generalisations of Richard Thompson groups |
| O''Connell, N | From longest increasing subsequences to Whittaker functions and random polymers |
| Riordan, O | Counting connected hypergraphs via the probabilistic method |
| Rumynin, D | 2-Characters |
| Thomas, R | Nodal curves, old and new |
| Tian, Y | Congruent numbers with many prime factors |
| Tillmann, U | Homotopy theory for geometric groups |
Workshop: Algebraic Geometry
| Hering, M | Toric vector bundles |
| Karmazyn, J | Realising moduli spaces from derived equivalences |
| Lopes , M M | Constraints on the invariants of irregular surfaces |
| Reid, M | The G-Hilbert scheme for trihedral groups |
Workshop: Applied Analysis
| Cherniha, R | Symmetries and Exact Solutions of Boundary Value Problems |
| Dalla Riva, M | Existence results for a nonlinear transmission problem |
| Fresneda-Portillo, C | A New Family of Boundary Domain Integral Equations |
| Seco, D | Cyclic polynomials in two variables |
| Tkocz, T | Tensor products of random unitary matrices |
| van Gennip, Y | PDE techniques for graph problems |
Workshop: Category Theory
| Corner, A | Lax monoidal model structures |
| Leinster, T | The reflexive completion |
| Vickers, S | Coherence for Geometricity |
| von Glehn, T | Constructing models of dependent type theory |
Workshop: Combinatorics
| Böttcher, J | Blow-Up Lemmas |
| Ellis, D | The structure of graphs which are locally indistinguishable from a lattice |
| Fountoulakis, N | A phase transition on the evolution of bootstrap percolation processes |
| Montgomery, R | Spanning Trees in Random Graphs |
| Narayanan, B | Coalescence on the real line |
| Talbot,J | Mantel's theorem, analogues and extensions |
| Warnke, L | The phase transition in Achlioptas processes |
| Wolf, J | Ramsey multiplicity of patterns in abelian groups |
Workshop: Geometry
| Berman, R | A cousin of the Calabi flow and Stochastic Quantization |
| Besson,G | Classification of decomposable open 3-manifolds |
| Rupflin,M | Teichmüller harmonic map flow |
| Wang, L | Geometry of Two-dimensional Self-shrinkers |
Workshop: History of mathematics
| Barrow-Green, J | Olaus Henrici and mathematical models |
| Bradford, J | Presenting histories of mathematical practice at the Science Museum |
| Cretney, R | J.H. Lambert on the mathematics of map-making |
| Harper,J | What is a continuous function? |
| Heard, J | The Early History of The London Mathematical Society |
| Hollings, C | Language use in Soviet mathematics journals |
| McCartney, M | The Cambridge Poems of James Clerk Maxwell |
Workshop: Probability
| Crane, E | Random trees, forest fires and explosions |
| Holroyd, A | Finitely dependent colouring |
| Labbe, C | Singular stochastic PDEs on unbounded domains |
| Sousi, P | Mixing, hitting and intersection times for Markov chains |
| Susa-Quintero, C | Quantum systems are more complex than classical ones |