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British Mathematical Colloquium
This was held at Cardiff: 30 March - 2 April 2026.
Organisers were Timothy Logvinenko, Marco Marletta, Angela Mihai, Simon Wood
Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below
Plenary Speakers
| de Filippis, C | Surfing regularity on nonlinear potentials |
| Gaitsgory, D | Deligne-Lusztig theory as trace |
| Kapranov, M | Supersymmetry, differential operators of infinite order and theta-functions |
| Ogata, Y | Topological order: an operator-algebraic approach |
| Schmidt-Hieber, J | The mathematics behind spiking neural networks |
| Varjú, P | Self-similar sets and measures |
Public Lecture
| Marklof, J | The Mathematics of Chaos: Predicting the Unpredictable |
Morning Speakers
| Beghin, L | Random processes through non-local operators: analytical versus stochastic approaches |
| Chen, G-Q | Partial differential equations of mixed type − analysis and connections |
| Citti, G | The Laplace operator on a plane in the Heisenberg group |
| Clausen, D | Some modern aspects of Weil's "Rosetta stone" |
| Feyzbakhsh, S | Applications of Bridgeland stability conditions in algebraic geometry |
| Houdayer, C | Lattices, Weyl groups and rigidity of von Neumann algebras |
| Huybrechts, D | Brauer groups and geometry: The period-index conjecture |
| Kawahigashi, Y | Quantum symmetries in operator algebras and mathematical physics |
| Kurasov, P | Higher Dimensional Crystallines from Lee-Yang Varieties |
| Le Donne, E | Metric Lie groups |
| Nourdin, I | Quantitative CLT for deep neural networks |
| Schweigert, C | Skein theory, Frobenius functors and CFT correlators |
Algebra Section
| Meyer, A | Cohomology and invariant theory of finite matrix groups |
| Llewellyn, C | The combinatorics of maximal modifying modules |
| Bai, C-Y | Derived skein modules |
| Garkusha, G | Projective schemes for non-commutative graded algebras with extra symmetries |
| Spakula, J | Shalom's Conjecture and boundary representations |
| Blitvic, N | Permutation patterns |
| Walmsley, C | Spin chains and totally symmetric alternating sign matrices |
| Jackson, A | Polynomial results for GL_n(o) |
| Kaleeva, G | Universal equivalence of linear groups over rings |
| Villamizar, N | Koszul homology and the dimension of spline spaces |
Analysis Section
| Galkowski, J | |
| Capoferri, M | Anderson localization in high-contrast random media |
| Majumdar, A | Free boundary-value problems in the Landau-de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals - spindles, tactoids and bacterial biofilms |
| Wood, I | Spectrum of the Maxwell equations for a flat interface between non-homogeneous dispersive media |
| Petpradittha, S | Lieb–Thirring type inequalities for non-self-adjoint Schrödinger operators |
| Fischer, V | High-frequency analysis for subelliptic operators |
| Karpukhin, M | Eigenvalue optimisation in geometric analysis |
| Tretter, C | Essential numerical ranges |
| Cuenin, J-C | |
| Gong, Y | Observability and semiclassical control for Schrödinger equations on non-compact hyperbolic surfaces |
| Kittle, S | |
| Streck, L | A geometric approach to counting rationals near curves |
| Eichinger, B | Necessary and sufficient conditions for universality limits |
| Oliveira, I | Multiple convolutions and multilinear fractal Fourier extension |
| Mondal, S | Small eigenvalues and their stability under finite coverings |
Geometry Section
| Ranganathan, D | The LMNOP Conjecture |
| Bertsch, L | Variation of crepant resolutions of Kleinian singularities |
| Argüz, H | b-Complex Manifolds with Generalized Corners and Kato–Nakayama Spaces |
| Rietsch, K | On mirror symmetry for Schubert varieties |
| Liu, P | Moduli spaces from the Kuznetsov component of cubic fivefolds |
| Fatighenti, E | Modular vector bundles on hyperkähler manifolds |
| Hanson, R | Parabolic induction for Higgs bundles |
| Pearson, H | The Mukai conjecture for spherical varieties |
| Pokora, P | Curves and surfaces with extreme properties |
| Baranovsky, V | Geometry of curved Maurer-Cartan functors |
| Craw. A | Deformations of Kleinian singularities and their Hilbert schemes |
| Truter, M Fano | 4-fold hypersurfaces |
Mathematical Physics Section
| Korff, K | From vertex models to vertex operators |
| Verdon, D | Categorification and operator algebra |
| Janssen, D | Quantum reference frames in quantum field theory |
| Rejzner, K | Measurement and quantum reference frames in QFT |
| Moro, A | Integrable differential identities for the orthogonal ensemble |
| Klein, K | The quantization and Unruh state for Teukolsky scalars on Kerr spacetimes |
| Galanda, S | Stability analysis of the linearised semiclassical Einstein-Klein-Gordon System: Minkowski spacetime |
| Turzillo, A | Detection of 2D SPT phases under decoherence |
| Bunk, S | Universal symmetry groups, derived geometry, and higher gauge fields |
Outreach Section
| Budd, C | Be intelligent, not artificial |
| Ainslie, C | |
| Wray, N | Being positive deaf-inite in maths outreach |
| Houston, K | How to tell the public about your research without losing them |
| Coutts, E | Widening Access or Outreach? Difference pieces of the same puzzle |
| Hunt, F | Meaningful maths: realistic or hilarious? |
| Sparks, B | Making Maths Move (in various ways) |
Partial Differential Equation Section
| Katzourakis, N | A measure-theoretic generalisation of Danskin’s theorem and everywhere semi-differentiability of functionals |
| Salani, S | Concavity and convexity versus heat flow |
| Wu, Z | Fluctuating hydrodynamics in kinetic equations |
| Sahjwani, P | Stability of Quermassintegral and Minkowski-Type Inequalities in Curved Spaces |
| Crooks, E | Self-similar fast-reaction limits of reaction-diffusion systems with nonlinear diffusion |
| Evans, J | Kinetic equations which converge to the porus medium and fast diffusion equations |
| Griffin-Pickering, M | |
| Einav, A | Can we have a little order in all this chaos? |
| Yoldaş, H | Fisher information and the well-posedness of the Landau equation |
| Matthies, K | Fronts in dissipative Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou chain |
| Mainardi, F | Transient waves in linear dispersive media with dissipation |
Probability section
| Jay, J | Connections between interacting particle systems and combinatorial objects |
| Germain, G | Normal approximation of the intrinsic volumes distribution of a convex body |
| Li, N | Iterated graph systems: Brownian motion on fractals |
| Wang,T | Coverage correlation: detecting singular dependencies between random variables |
| Bordino, A | Nonparametric inference for ratios of densities via uniformly valid and powerful permutation tests |
| Ortgiese, M | The spatial Muller's ratchet |
| Kovtun, A | Multidimensional Dickman distribution and operator selfdecomposability |
| Xia, P | Ergodicity and Gaussian fluctuations of stochastic heat equations |
| Powell, E | Scaling limits of critical FK-decorated maps at q = 4 |
| Bhattacharjee, S | Law of fractional logarithm for the GUE minor process |
| Baker, E | Polynomial ergodicity of the generalised relativistic Langevin equation |
| Dolores Ruiz-Medina, M | Non-central limit theorems for sojourn measures of spatio-temporal random fields |
| Suvak, N | Spectral representation of the transition density of killed inverse-gamma diffusion on a bounded state space |
| Papić, I | Stretched non-local Pearson diffusions |
| Fitzgerald, W | Ordered random walks and the Airy line ensemble |
| Reinert, G | Exponential random graph models analysed using Stein's method |
| Kaddouri, I | Late change-point in the preferential attachment random graph model |
| Baker, O | Entropy of soft random geometric graphs in general geometries |
| Marinucci, D | The geometry of random neural networks |
| Wirth, L | Private synthetic graph generation |
| Kent, A | Rate optimality and phase transition for user-level local differential privacy |
| Berrett, T | Permutation testing under local differential privacy |