Leuven, Joint meeting with the Belgian Mathematical Society
Friday 20 November 2009
Institute of Education London, Annual General Meeting
Roger Heath-Brown (Oxford) The most important problem in mathematics (?)
Leif Abrahamsson (Uppsala) Support for mathematics in developing countries
Rosemary Bailey (QMUL) Teaching mathematics: satnav or map?
Ken Brown (Glasgow) The Research Excellence Framework and issues arising from it
Wednesday 16 September 2009
Leicester, Midlands Regional Meeting
Jean-Louis Loday (IRMA, CNRS, Strasbourg) Koszul duality
Idun Reiten (Trondheim) Coxeter groups and associated rings and categories
Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford) From Configuration to Moduli Spaces
The meeting was followed by a workshop on Derived Categories in Algebra, Topology and Geometry.
Wednesday 15 July 2009
Southampton, South West and South Wales Regional Meeting
Cornelia Drutu (Oxford) Geometry and quasi-isometric rigidity of relatively hyperbolic groups
Jim Howie (Heriot-Watt University) Finitely presented residually free groups
Zlil Sela (Hebrew University Jerusalem) Around the first order theory of a free group
The meeting was followed by a workshop on limit groups and their generalisations.
Friday 3 July 2009
London
Sergiu Klainerman (Princeton) On the mathematical magic of Black Holes
Gerhard Huisken (Max-Planck-Institut) The isoperimetric inequality and the concept of mass in
General Relativity
Friday 27 February 2009
Imperial College London,
Mary Cartwright Meeting
Simon Donaldson (Imperial College London) A spectator’s commentary on symplectic topology
Dusa McDuff (Barnard College, Columbia)
Manchester, Northern Regional Meeting
Paul Baum (Penn State, USA) What is K-theory and what is it good for?
Kathryn Hess (EPFL, Switzerland) Free loop spaces in topology and physics
Imre Leader (Cambridge) Euclidean Ramsey Theory
The meeting was preceded by a postgraduate student conference, MAGIC09
Edinburgh, Joint meeting with the Edinburgh Mathematical Society
Laurent Bartholdi (Lausanne) Automatically presented groups
Martin Bridson (Oxford) Dimension, rigidity and fixed point theorems
Alain Valette (Neuchatel) The Haagerup property and its stability properties
Efim Zelmanov (UC San Diego) Asymptotic properties of finite groups and finite dimensional algebras
Michael Green (Cambridge) Naylor Lecture
Preceeded by a Graduate Student Meeting at King's College London
South West & South Wales Regional Meeting, Swansea
Nicola Fusco (Naples) Equilibrium configurations of strained films: Existence, regularity and qualitative properties
Istvan Gyöngy (Edinburgh) Numerical solutions of optimal stopping and control problems
Bert Peletier (Leiden)
ECM, Amsterdam
Friday 4 July 2008
Professor Béla Bollobás (Cambridge) Projections, entropy and some applications
Professor Shmuel Weinberger (University of Chicago and Hebrew University) [LMS Hardy Lecturer]
Monday 9 June 2008
Birmingham
Brian Davies (King’s College London) Spectral Properties of Matrices Associated with Some Directed Graphs
Fulvio Ricci (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) Commutative Fourier Analysis on Nilpotent Lie Groups
Luis Vega (Bilbao) Convexity and Uniqueness for Some Evolution Equations
Monday 31 March 2008
Northern Regional Meeting,
Michael Field (University of Houston) Rates of mixing for flows
Ursula Hamenstädt (Universität Bonn) Bowen's construction for the Teichmüller flow
Followed by a Workshop on Ergodic Theory and Geometry
Friday 8 February 2008
Sir Richard Peto (Oxford)
Valerie Beral (Oxford) Mary Cartwright Lecture
Mathematics of medicine: breast cancer treatment and prevention
Friday 23 November 2007
AGM, London
Michael Struwe (ETH, Zürich) Geometric energy quantization
John Toland (Bath) Presidential Address, Skating on Thin Ice
Wednesday 24 October 2007
Northern Regional Meeting, Sheffield
Fröhlich Lecture, Larry Breen (University of Paris, XIII)Differential forms: an intrinsic perspective
Alberto Cattaneo (University of Zürich) The Poisson sigma model
Followed by a Workshop on Lie algebroids and Lie groupoids in
differential geometry
Friday 22 June 2007
London
Angus Macintyre (Queen Mary, University of London) Current p-adic model theory and its debt to Paul Cohen, Hugh Woodin (Princeton) Current Set Theory and its debt to Paul Cohen
Wednesday 30 May 2007
South West and South Wales Regional Meeting, Cardiff
Michael Aizenman (Princeton) The curious effects of disorder on spectra of random operators
Toshikazu Sunada (Meiji University, Japan) The K_4 crystal - a new crystal structure similar to the diamond lattice
Followed by a Workshop on Analysis on graphs and its applications
Tuesday 24 April 2007
David Crighton Lecture, London
Sir Christopher Zeeman What’s wrong with Euclid Book V
Midlands Regional Meeting, Loughborough
Yves Colin de Verdière (Grenoble) On localisation of Laplace eigenfunctions: recent progress and open problems
Followed by a Workshop on Tropical geometry
9 February 2007
Mary Cartwright Meeting, London
P.K. Maini (Oxford) Emergent phenomena - Fact or fiction?
A. Stevens (Leipzig) [Mary Cartwright Lecture] Interacting cell systems: An example for mathematical modelling in the life-sciences
17 November 2006
Geometric Analysis Meeting and AGM, London
P. Topping (Warwick) Ricci flow, entropy and optimal transportation
R. Hamilton (Columbia) The Ricci flow
11 September 2006
South West & South Wales Regional Meeting, Bath
T. Seppalainen (Madison) Limit shapes and fluctuations for some planar stochastic growth models
P-L. Lions (Paris) Stochastic lattices and deformation energies
Followed by a Workshop on Analysis and stochastics of growth
processes
25 August 2006
LMS/RSME Special Lectures
ICM Madrid
R. Bryant (Duke University, USA) Aufwiedersehen surfaces, revisited
G. Toussaint (McGill University, Canada) Musical rhythm and computational mathematics
3 July 2006
Northern Regional Meeting, Leeds
U. Haagerup (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) An application of classical Banach space theory to partial differential equations
N.J. Kalton (University of Missouri) Random matrices and operator algebras
Followed by a Workshop on Functional analysis
16 June 2006
London
A.C. Rice (Randolph-Macon College) The life and legacy of Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871)
Yu. Manin (Northwestern University, Evanston) [Hardy Lecturer] Continued fractions, non-commutative boundaries and Einstein equations
15 May 2006
Midlands Regional Meeting, Leicester
M. Bridson (Imperial College) Between Teichmüller space and outer space
K. Kraft (Basel) Compression of finite group actions and covariant dimension
A. Zelevinsky (Boston) Laurent expansions in cluster algebras via quiver representation
N. Hitchin (Oxford) Geometric structures and the Teichmüller component
Followed by a Workshop on Teichmüller theory and cluster algebras
10 February 2006
Mary Cartwright Meeting, London
G. Segal (Oxford) Locality in quantum field theory
U. Tillmann (Oxford) [Mary Cartwright Lecturer] The topology of strings: Mumford’s conjecture and beyond
18 November 2005
AGM, London
B. Totaro (Cambridge) Dividing sheep from goats: applications of the idea of ‘stability’ from geometric invariant theory
F.C. Kirwan (Oxford) [Presidential Address] Yang-Mills theory and Tamagawa numbers: the fascination of unexpected links in mathematics
7 October 2005
Algorithms Meeting, London
M. Jerrym (Edinburgh) Algorithmically feasible sampling: What are the limits?
M. Dyer (Leeds) Spin systems: counting and sampling
5 September 2005
South West & South Wales Regional Meeting, Bristol
V. Bergelson (Ohio State) Ergodic Ramsey theory and properties of large sets
T. Tao (UCLA) Ergodic theory, arithmetic progressions and the primes
Followed by a Workshop on Additive combinatorics
8 July 2005
Northern Regional Meeting, York
P. Horodeckii (Gdansk) Quantum communication and entanglement
C.H. Bennett (IBM) Information is quantum
Followed by a Workshop on Quantum information theory
17 June 2005
London
J. Barrow-Green (Open University) [The Book of Presidents book launch] ‘The Book of Presidents 1865-1965’ An indulgent freedom: 100 years of presidential addresses
R. Jozsa (Bristol) [2004 Naylor Prize Lecture] An invitation to quantum computation and recent theoretical developments
R. Penrose (Oxford) Quanglement, spin-networks, and twistor theory
10 June 2005
Oxford
I.M. Singer (MIT) [Honorary Member 2004] The projective Dirac operator and its rational index
18 May 2005
Midlands Regional Meeting, Birmingham
R. Oliver (Paris 13) [Fröhlich Lecture] p-local structure of finite groups and of their classifying spaces
W.T. Gowers (Cambridge) Is there another way to explain mathematics?
S. Smith ( Chicago) Homology decompositions from subgroup complexes of finite groups
Followd by a Workshop on Fusion systems, Representation theory
and groups
25 February 2005
Mary Cartwright Meeting, London
S. Lauritzen (Oxford) A pedigree perspective of local computation
E. Thompson (Washington, Seattle) [Mary Cartwright Lecturer] Relatedness, genome sharing, and the detection of genes
19 November 2004
AGM, London
D.I. Olive (Swansea) Unified theories and the increasing synergy between mathematics and physics
P. Goddard (IAS) [Presidential Address] Infinite dimensional symmetry
17 September 2004
South West & South Wales Regional Meeting, Exeter
R.P. Langlands (IAS) The trace formula’s potential as a tool in number theory
G. Henniart (Paris) Extending the Langlands conjectures: p-adic representations of p-adic groups
Followed by a Workshop on Harmonic analysis and number theory
2 July 2004
Northern Regional Meeting, Newcastle
R.I. Grigorchuk (Steklov Institute/Texas A&M) Groups, finite automata and spectra
M. Gromov (IHES/Courant Institute) Separation in groups and L2 Kähler geometry
Followed by a Workshop on Geometric group theory
18 June 2004
Hardy Lecture, London
J.C. Rickard (Bristol University) [Senior Berwick Prizewinner 2002] Long arithmetic progressions in the primes
T. Tao (UCLA) [Hardy Lecture] The stable module category of a finite group algebra
12 May 2004
Midlands Regional Meeting, Nottingham
E. Bayer-Fluckiger (Lausanne, Switzerland) Euclidean number fields and Euclidean minima
B. de Smit (Leiden, Netherlands) The elliptic curve in Escher's print gallery
J-L. Colliot-Thélène (CNRS and Université Paris-Sud, France) From linear algebraic groups to rationally connected varieties
Followed by a Worksop on Quadratic forms, algebras with involution and algebraic K-theory
20 February 2004
Mary Cartwright Meeting, London
D. Schleicher (Bremen) Understanding complex dynamical systems and their parameter spaces
S.M. Rees (Liverpool) [Mary Cartwright Lecturer] The topographer’s view of parameter spaces
9 January 2004
Phoenix , AZ, USA
[Launch of Compositio Mathematica]
G. van der Geer (KdV Institute, UWA) Curves over finite fields and congruences between modular forms
21 November 2003
AGM, London
L.C.G. Rogers (Cambridge) Monte Carlo valuation of American options
M.H.A. Davis (Imperial College London) [2002 Naylor Prize Lecture] Optimal investment with randomly terminating income
24 October 2003
South West & South Wales Regional Meeting, Southampton
M. Viana (IMPA, Brasil) Multiplying matrices
P. Holmes ( Princeton) Piecewise-holonomic mechanics, hybrid dynamical systems, and escaping cockroaches
Followed by a Workshop on Nonlinear dynamics and life sciences
22 July 2003
Joint with the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Edinburgh
M.F. Atiyah (Edinburgh) Sir William Hodge – the man and the mathematician
R. Penrose (Oxford) Mathematical experiences as a Cambridge research student under William Hodge
F. Hirzebruch (Bonn) Hodge numbers, Chern numbers, Catalan numbers
20 June 2003
London
M.J. Taylor (UMIST) [First Fröhlich Lecture]
Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft
14 May 2003
Midlands Regional Meeting, Coventry
O. Wolkenhauer (UMIST) Mathematical modelling of cellular
R. Babuska (Delft) Dynamics fuzzy systems
Followed by a Workshop on Uncertainty modelling
11 March 2003
Northern Regional Meeting, Manchester
J.C. Jantzen (Aarhus) Representations of reductive Lie algebras in prime characteristics
V. Ginzburg (Chicago) Representation theory of Cherednik algebras and applications
Followed by a Workshop on Geometric representation and
invariant theory
28 February 2003
Mary Cartwright Meeting, Edinburgh
B. Bollobás (Memphis/Cambridge) Models of large-scale real-world networks
J. Chaves (Microsoft Research) [Mary Cartwright Lecturer] Mathematical models of the internet and world wide web
25 November 2002
South West Regional Meeting, Gregynog
V.F.R. Jones (Berkeley) Skein theory in and out of knot theory
J. Lewis (Dublin) Large deviation theory in perspective
Followed by a Workshop on Contemporary aspects of mathematical
physics
22 November 2002
AGM, London
J.D. Gibbon (Imperial) Singularity formation in the 3d Euler equations
J.T. Stuart (Imperial) [Presidential Address] Hydrodynamic stability and singularities
23 October 2002
Joint with the British Society for the History of Mathematics, London
R. Wilson (Open University) The four-colour problem: 1852-1940
K. Appel (New Hampshire) & W. Haken ( Illinois) Solving the four-colour problem
D. Archdeacon (Vermont) From the Heawood conjecture to topological graph theory
R. Thomas (Atlanta) The Four-Colour theory and beyond
5 June 2002
Northern Regional Meeting, Liverpool
L. Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago) Classifying and applying rational tangles and knots
J. Kollár (Princeton University) What are the simplest algebraic varieties?
Followed by a Workshop on Model theory and logic
27 February 2002
Midlands Regional Meeting, Birmingham
A.D. Gardiner (Birmingham) Why should the mathematical community care about Olympiads?
P.M. Neumann (Oxford) Infinite Jordan groups
A.J. Macintyre (Edinburgh) Prospects for model theory
Followed by a Workshop on Model theory and model theoretic algebra
12 September 2001
South West Regional Meeting, Bristol
K. Johansson (KTH, Stockholm) From Szego’s theorem to random matrices and more
P. Sarnak* (Princeton University) Families of zeta functions, applications and conjectures
Followed by a Workshop on Zeta functions, Random matrices and quantum chaos
*Sarnak was unable to travel from the USA because of the closure of all American airports. His lecture was delivered from his notes by B. Conrey.
6 July 2001
Northern Regional Meeting, Manchester
B. Fedosov (Moscow) Deformation quantization: pro and contra
A. Vaintrob (Oregon) Homological vector fields
Followed by a Workshop on Quantization, Deformations, and new homological and categorical methods in mathematical physics
28 February 2001
Midlands Regional Meeting, Birmingham
M. Aschbacher (CalTech) Modern permutation group theory
J. Kyle (Birmingham/LTSN) Recent developments in web based assessment
I. Stewart (Warwick) Mathematical patterns in animal locomotion
Followed by a Workshop on Groups and geometries
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