BMC 2004

Fifty sixth British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Belfast (Joint with IMS): 5 - 8 April 2004.

The enrolment was 232. The chairman was M Mathieu.

Minutes of the General meeting are available at THIS LINK

Agenda/Minutes of the Scientific Committee Meeting: January 2004 are available at THIS LINK

Agenda/Minutes of the Scientific Committee Meeting: April 2004 are available at THIS LINK

Agenda/Minutes of the Scientific Committee Meeting: September 2004 are available at THIS LINK

A Memorandum between the LMS and BMC is available at THIS LINK

Conclusions of a BAMC-BMC meeting in September 2004 are available at THIS LINK

A Constitution for the BMC is available at THIS LINK

The plenary speakers were:

Kechris, A Fraisse limits, Ramsey theory and topological dynamics of automorphism groups
Patterson, S J Squaring circles and circling squares: Gauss's Circle Problem
Pisier, G Factorization of completely bounded maps on "exact" C*-algebras and operator spaces
Procesi, C The role of the Cayley-Hamilton identity in representation theory
Zelmanov, E On large pro-p groups
Ziegler, G On the combinatorics of the 3-sphere

The morning speakers were:

Buckley, S Gromov hyperbolicity for analysts
Carne, T K How an analytic functio changes the length of a radius
Carroll, T Harmonic measure in parabola-shaped regions in Rⁿ
Dineen, S Banach-valued spectra
Ellis, G Polytopes and the cohomology of groups
Huggett, S Tutte polynomials of links, graphs and matroids
Marsh, R Cluster algebras and tilting theory
Merkulov, S Infinity constructions of local geometries
Pfeiffer, G Subgroups and cosets in infinite Coxeter groups
Pott, S Admisaability of observation operators and vector BMO functions
Rees, S M Dynamics and automatic structure of groups
Wood, A The influence of G C Stokes on the modern asymptotic theory of differential equations

Special session: Non-commutative functional analysis Organisers: R Archbold and M Mathieu

Junge, M Embedding of the operator space OH and related results
Neufang, M Quantisation in abstract harmonic analysis
Rordam, M Purely infinite C*-algebras

Special session: Combinatorics Organisers: J Siemons and L Helbeisen

Brightwell, G R The number of linear extensions of a partially ordered set
Riordan, O Scale-free random graphs
Scott, A Independent sets, lattice gases and the Lovasz local lemma


Kechris, A	Fraisse limits, Ramsey theory and topological dynamics of automorphism groups
Patterson, S J	Squaring circles and circling squares: Gauss's Circle Problem
Pisier, G	Factorization of completely bounded maps on "exact" C-algebras and operator spaces*
Procesi, C	The role of the Cayley-Hamilton identity in representation theory
Zelmanov, E	On large pro-p groups
Ziegler, G	On the combinatorics of the 3-sphere


Buckley, S	Gromov hyperbolicity for analysts
Carne, T K	How an analytic functio changes the length of a radius
Carroll, T	Harmonic measure in parabola-shaped regions in Rⁿ
Dineen, S	Banach-valued spectra
Ellis, G	Polytopes and the cohomology of groups
Huggett, S	Tutte polynomials of links, graphs and matroids
Marsh, R	Cluster algebras and tilting theory
Merkulov, S	Infinity constructions of local geometries
Pfeiffer, G	Subgroups and cosets in infinite Coxeter groups
Pott, S	Admisaability of observation operators and vector BMO functions
Rees, S M	Dynamics and automatic structure of groups
Wood, A	The influence of G C Stokes on the modern asymptotic theory of differential equations


Junge, M	Embedding of the operator space OH and related results
Neufang, M	Quantisation in abstract harmonic analysis
Rordam, M	Purely infinite C-algebras*


Brightwell, G R	The number of linear extensions of a partially ordered set
Riordan, O	Scale-free random graphs
Scott, A	Independent sets, lattice gases and the Lovasz local lemma