British Mathematical Colloquium

The British Mathematical Colloquium is the largest pure mathematical conference to be held annually in the UK. It has been held every year since 1949, usually around Easter, though some of the earlier meetings were in September. The venues of the different conferences are given below.

There were talks on each of the three mornings of the conference and a plenary session, usually by a well-known figure, each evening.
From 1994 onwards there were some Special Sessions which each concentrated on a particular area of mathematics

Minutes of the general and committee meetings are available for many of the colloquia.

From 1997 onwards the organisation was handled differently and a Scientific Committee was set up.
From 2004 onwards this committee met twice a year.

If the year is followed by [ G ] then the minutes of the General meeting are available;
if it is followed by [ G , C ] then the minutes of both the General meeting and the Committee meeting are available;
if it is followed by [ G , SC ] then the minutes of the General meeting and the Scientific Committee meeting(s) are available.
You may see these minutes by clicking on the G, C or SC. The minutes are also linked to the page for that year.

Other memoranda and correspondence about the BMC are linked from the page for each year.

Colloquia

	Year	Place
1	1949	Manchester	Programme	[ G, C ]
2	1950	Oxford	Programme	[ G, C ]
3	1951	Bristol	Programme	[ G, C ]
4	1952	RNC Greenwich	Programme	[ G, C ]
5	1953	Durham	Programme	[ G, C ]
6	1954	Cambridge	Programme	[ G, C ]
7	1955	Exeter	Programme	[ G, C ]
8	1956	St Andrews	Programme	[ G, C ]
9	1957	Nottingham	Programme	[ G, C ]
10	1958	Reading	Programme	[ G, C ]
11	1959	Cardiff	Programme	[ G, C ]
12	1960	Royal Holloway, London	Programme	[ G, C ]
13	1961	Liverpool	Programme	[ G, C ]
14	1962	Southampton	Programme	[ G, C ]
15	1963	R M C Shrivenham	Programme	[ G, C ]
16	1964	Leicester	Programme	[ G, C ]
17	1965	Dundee	Programme	[ G, C ]
18	1966	Imperial College, London	Programme	[ G, C ]
19	1967	Swansea	Programme	[ G, C ]
20	1968	Leeds	Programme	[ G, C ]
21	1969	Birmingham	Programme	[ G, C ]
22	1970	York	Programme	[ G, C ]
23	1971	Kent	Programme	[ G, C ]
24	1972	Glasgow	Programme	[ G, C ]
25	1973	Manchester	Programme	[ G, C ]
26	1974	Sussex	Programme	[ G, C ]
27	1975	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	Programme	[ G, C ]
28	1976	Aberystwyth	Programme	[ G, C₁, C₂ ]
29	1977	Edinburgh	Programme	[ G, C ]
30	1978	Lancaster	Programme	[ G, C ]
31	1979	University College, London	Programme	[ G, C ]
32	1980	Sheffield	Programme	[ G, C ]
33	1981	Oxford	Programme	[ G, C ]
34	1982	Bangor	Programme	[ G, C ]
35	1983	Aberdeen	Programme	[ G, C ]
36	1984	Bristol	Programme	[ G, C ]
37	1985	Cambridge	Programme	[ G, C ]
38	1986	Hull	Programme	[ G, C ]
39	1987	St Andrews	Programme	[ G, C ]
40	1988	Exeter	Programme	[ G, C ]
41	1989	Nottingham	Programme	[ G, C ]
42	1990	East Anglia	Programme	[ G, C ]
43	1991	Bath	Programme	[ G, C ]
44	1992	Strathclyde	Programme	[ G, C ]
45	1993	Reading	Programme	[ G, C ]
46	1994	Cardiff	Programme	[ G, SubC, SC ]
47	1995	Heriot-Watt	Programme	[ G, SC ]
48	1996	UMIST	Programme	[ G, SC ]
49	1997	Royal Holloway	Programme	[ G, SC ]
50	1998	Manchester	Programme	[ G, SC ]
51	1999	Southampton	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
52	2000	Leeds	Programme	[ G, SC ]
53	2001	Glasgow	Programme	[ G, SC ]
54	2002	Warwick (Joint with BAMC)	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
55	2003	Birmingham	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
56	2004	Belfast (Joint with IMS)	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
57	2005	Liverpool (Joint with BAMC)	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
58	2006	Newcastle	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
59	2007	Swansea	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
60	2008	York	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
61	2009	Galway	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
62	2010	Edinburgh (Joint with BAMC)	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
63	2011	Leicester	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
64	2012	Kent	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
65	2013	Sheffield	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
66	2014	QMUL	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
67	2015	Cambridge (Joint with BAMC)	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
68	2016	Bristol	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
69	2017	Durham	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
70	2018	St Andrews	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
71	2019	Lancaster	Programme	[ SC₁, SC₂ ]
72	2020	Postponed	Programme	[ SC₁ ]
73	2021	Glasgow (online) (Joint with BAMC)	Programme	[ G, SC₁, SC₂ ]
74	2022	Kings College, London	Programme	[ G, SC₁ ]