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Report on the 2018 St Andrews BMC
British Mathematical Colloquium 2018 University of St Andrews
The 70th British Mathematical Colloquium took place from 11th-14th June 2018 in the Physics Building and Mathematical Institute of the University of St Andrews. There was a total of 172 registered participants.
We believe that the Colloquium was very successful. We have had much positive feedback relating in particular to the quality of the plenary and morning talks, the workshops, and the speed lectures, as well as to the general organization.
There were 6 plenary lectures, 12 morning lectures (in parallel pairs) and a public lecture (where about 40 of the audience were external to the Colloquium).
There were 5 workshops, in Algebra, Analysis & Probability, Combinatorics, Dynamics, History of Mathematics, each of which comprised 8 thirty-five minute presentations.
The Speed Lecture session for PhD students and early career researchers comprised 18 four minute talks which were very well presented, particularly in the context of such a time constraint.
On Wednesday 13th June there was an LMS meeting, at which some 10 members signed the book, followed by the LMS lecture. Afterwards the Colloquium dinner was attended by 94 members, with Professor Mark Chaplain (University of St Andrews) giving an after dinner address.
The LMS had a stand throughout the Colloquium. Cambridge University Press and the American Mathematical Society had publishers stands. (Other publishers who were approached declined the offer of stands; this was certainly affected by the timing of the BMC, not least with two BMCs in the financial year 2018-19.)
St Andrews University Special Collections put on a display of rare mathematics books during the coffee and lunch breaks on Tuesday 12th June which included first editions of books by Napier, Paciloli, Gregory, Gauss and Galileo.
Financial support for the Colloquium was provided by the London Mathematical Society, the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Learning and Research Support Fund, the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research and Cambridge University Press. The Colloquium was organized in partnership with the Clay Mathematical Institute.
Further details of the Colloquium are available on the BMC website:
http://www.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~bmc2018/
The BMC was followed immediately by 3 LMS Scheme 3 joint research group meetings: One Day Ergodic Theory Meetings, North British Geometric Group Theory (NBGGT), North British Semigroups and Applications Network (NBSAN).
Attendance figures:
The 70th British Mathematical Colloquium took place from 11th-14th June 2018 in the Physics Building and Mathematical Institute of the University of St Andrews. There was a total of 172 registered participants.
We believe that the Colloquium was very successful. We have had much positive feedback relating in particular to the quality of the plenary and morning talks, the workshops, and the speed lectures, as well as to the general organization.
There were 6 plenary lectures, 12 morning lectures (in parallel pairs) and a public lecture (where about 40 of the audience were external to the Colloquium).
There were 5 workshops, in Algebra, Analysis & Probability, Combinatorics, Dynamics, History of Mathematics, each of which comprised 8 thirty-five minute presentations.
The Speed Lecture session for PhD students and early career researchers comprised 18 four minute talks which were very well presented, particularly in the context of such a time constraint.
On Wednesday 13th June there was an LMS meeting, at which some 10 members signed the book, followed by the LMS lecture. Afterwards the Colloquium dinner was attended by 94 members, with Professor Mark Chaplain (University of St Andrews) giving an after dinner address.
The LMS had a stand throughout the Colloquium. Cambridge University Press and the American Mathematical Society had publishers stands. (Other publishers who were approached declined the offer of stands; this was certainly affected by the timing of the BMC, not least with two BMCs in the financial year 2018-19.)
St Andrews University Special Collections put on a display of rare mathematics books during the coffee and lunch breaks on Tuesday 12th June which included first editions of books by Napier, Paciloli, Gregory, Gauss and Galileo.
Financial support for the Colloquium was provided by the London Mathematical Society, the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Learning and Research Support Fund, the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research and Cambridge University Press. The Colloquium was organized in partnership with the Clay Mathematical Institute.
Further details of the Colloquium are available on the BMC website:
http://www.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~bmc2018/
The BMC was followed immediately by 3 LMS Scheme 3 joint research group meetings: One Day Ergodic Theory Meetings, North British Geometric Group Theory (NBGGT), North British Semigroups and Applications Network (NBSAN).
Attendance figures:
| Male | Female | Total | |
| Invited Speakers | 12 | 7 | 19 |
| Research Students | 37 | 17 | 54 |
| Other Participants | 80 | 19 | 99 |
| Total | 124 | 48 | 172 |