British Mathematical Colloquium
This was held at Newcastle: 10-13 April 2006.
The enrolment was 202.
Organisers were A Duncan
Minutes of meetings, etc. are available at the links below
The plenary speakers were:
Higson, N
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Dimensions in C*-algebras |
Kac, V
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Quantization and chiralization |
Kirillov, A
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A tale of two fractals |
Mihailescu, P
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Cyclotomic norm equations and Catalan's Conjecture |
The morning speakers were:
Bielawski, R
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The geometry of monopoles |
Blower, G
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Transportation inequalities with applications to random matrices and Markov processes |
Dafermos, M
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The red-shift effect and decay rates for the wave equation of a Schwarzschild black hole exterior |
Farber, M
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Topology and robot motion planning |
Howie, J
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Limits of free groups |
Niblo, G
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Property T from a geometric group theorist's point of view |
Partington, J R
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The classical moment problem and beyond |
Read, C J
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Fun and games with non-standard ideals |
Schocker, M
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The Solomon descent algebra |
Scholl, A J
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Recent progress on Serre's conjecture |
Shargorodsky, E
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Stokes waves, Bernoulli free boundaries and the Riemann-Hilbert problem |
Smyth, C
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Salem numbers: recent developments |
Snashall, N
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Representation theory and support varieties for modules |
Public lecture
Acheson, D
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1089 and all that |
Special session: Analysis and geometry on groups, Organisers: A J Duncan and G Niblo
Baum, P
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What is an equivariant index? |
Valette, A
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Quasi-isometric embeddings of groups and growth of 1-cocycles |
Zuk, A
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Automata groups |
Special session: Operator theory, Organisers: M A Dritschel and J R Partington
Arendt, W
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Perturbation of generators, cosine functions and functional calculus |
Englis, M
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Toeplitz operators and group representations |
Shapiro, J
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On the Toeplitzness of composition operators |