British Mathematical Colloquium
This was held at Liverpool (Joint with BAMC): 4-7 April 2005.
The enrolment was 520.
Organisers were P Giblin
The partner for this BMC was BAMC
Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below
The plenary speakers were:
Ball, J M | Open problems in the calculus of variations and elasticity |
Berry, M V | Physics of nonhermitian degeneracies |
Elkies, N | Recent progress in sphere packing |
Fantechi, B | Stacky techniques in enumerative geometry |
Friedman, A | Bifurcation from stability to instability in free boundary problems |
Khovanskii, A | The solvability and unsolvability of equations in finite terms |
McDuff, D | Remarks on groups of symplectomorphisms |
Maz'ya, V | Unsolved mysteries of solutions to PDEs near the boundary |
Milton, G | Composite materials: an old field of study full of new surprises |
Toland, J F | Standing waves |
Werner, J | Mathematical aspects of the scaling limit of 2-d critical systems |
The morning speakers were:
Davis, M H A | Complete market models for option trading with stochastic volatility |
Etheridge, A M | Some mathematical challenges from population genetics |
Gordon, I | Symplectic reflection algebras |
Heath-Brown, R | Counting rational points on algebraic varieties |
Lackenby, M | The geometry anf topology of finite Cayley grphs |
Luzzato, S | Rigorous numerical and probabilistic methods in dynamical systems |
Mond, D | Free divisors and how they multiply |
Robson, E | Mathematics and society in ancient Iraq |
Schroer, J | From preprojective algebras to Lie algebras |
Thomas, R | Counting curves - a survey of MNOP theory |
Wood, J C | Harmonic morphisms |
Wulff, C | Stability of Poisson equilibria |
Special session: Algebraic and arithmetic geometry, Organisers: E V Flynn and P Newstead
Bruin, N | Exhibiting elements of Tate-Shafarevich groups of Abelian varieties |
Peternell, T | Pseudo-effective line bundles and the canonical bundle |
Verra, A | Unirationality problems for algebraic varieties and moduli spaces |
Special session: Differential Equations, Organiser: E Shargorodsky
Chilton, D | The spectral representaion of two-point BVPs for arbitrary order linear evolution PDEs |
Dodds, N | Spectral properties of non-local operators |
Hydon, P | Symmetries of initial-value problems |
Kamotski, V | 2D Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities |