Forty first British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Nottingham: 4 - 6 April 1989.

The enrolment was 167.    The chairman was R Laxton.

Minutes of the General meeting are available at THIS LINK

Minutes of a Special Committee Meeting are available at THIS LINK

Correspondence about the organisation of the BMC before the meetings at Nottingham is available from the Exeter meeting page

The plenary speakers were:
Bieri, R Topological methods in group theory: the Eilenberg-Mac Lane space
Sims, C C Computing polycyclic quotients of finitely-presented groups
Tijdeman, R Basic reduction algorithms and Diophantine approximation

The morning speakers were:
Bondy, J A Colouring, flows and coverings of graphs
Bruce, J W Singularities in geometry and geometry of singularities
Chiswell, I M Arboreal group theory
Cutland, N J Applications of non-standard analysis to probability theory
Erdmann, K Some classification problems in representation theory
Fountain J B Orders in semigroups and rings
Harman, G Recent progress in Diophantine approximation
Körner, T W Devil's staircases, ramps and roller-coasters
Kastler, D KMS states of supersymmetric systems and cyclic cohomology
Langley, J K Some recent results in Nevanlinna theory
Liebeck, M W Riemann surfaces and groups
Penrose, O Mathematics and magnetism
Robson, J C Matrices and principal ideal groups
Schwarzenberger, R L E Crystal symmetry since 1889
Shephard, G C A century of geometric transitivity
West, A Isoparametric manifolds