The 4th Joint British Mathematical Colloquium
& British Applied Mathematics Colloquium
30th March - 2nd April 2015, Cambridge
Conference Photos
Prizes
The prize winners were:
IMA Lighthill-Thwaites
- John Craske (Imperial) for "A robust mathematical model for unsteady turbulent jets: development and analysis".
Pure
- Rosanna Cretney (Open University) for "J.H. Lambert on the mathematics of map-making".
- Jack Shotton (Imperial) for "Local Galois deformation rings when l≠p".
SIAM
- Jennifer Jones (Bath) for "Modelling the formation of a buprenorphine reservoir in the stratum corneum".
- Lyndon Koens (Cambridge) for "Slender ribbon theory".
- Oliver Southwick (UCL) for "A point-vortex model for the formation of ocean eddies by flow separation".
Poster
- Radu Cimpeanu (Imperial) for "How to make a splash: droplet impact and liquid film applications in aerodynamics".
A Meeting For All Mathematicians
Programme Available On-line
A Joint Meeting of the British Mathematical Colloquium (BMC) and the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC) was held at the University of Cambridge from 11:00 on Monday 30th March 2015 to 13:00 on Thursday 2nd April 2015. This was the 4th Joint Meeting following Warwick (2002), Liverpool (2005) and Edinburgh (2010).
Programme Available On-line
The programme of the meeting is available on-line at tinyurl.com/bmc-bamc including, in PDF form (with clickable links):
- The Conference Booklet; a hard-copy of this booklet was handed out at registration.
- The Booklet of Abstracts. We hope that delegates will use the on-line version (either the standard version or the small-devices version); please note the "Table of Contents" and "Index" active links at the bottom of each page. A few versions of this booklet are available at the conference desk in the CMS.
- An Addendum to the above material.
In addition, the following pages (extracted from the above documents) are available as web pages:
- A one-page summary of the Conference Programme
- A one-page summary of the Timetable of Workshops/Sessions
- A List of Abstracts
All timetabled talks included at least 2 minutes of questions and 1 minute changeover between speakers. For example, a 20-minute slot provided time for a 17-minute presentation at maximum. Session chairs were asked to stick rigidly to the timetable to allow delegates to switch between talks in different rooms.
Registration, Payment and Abstract Submission
After extremely high demand, registration sold out. Abstract submission closed on 7th February 2015.
LMS Celebration
There was a celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the LMS on 1st April 2015. The Conference Dinner was held on the evening of the same day.
Plenary Speakers
Robert Calderbank | Yves Couder | Jacques Dumais |
Phil Hall |
Peter Kronheimer |
Stanley Osher |
Sylvia Serfaty | Wendelin Werner | Andrew Wiles |
Public Lecture
Sectional Speakers
A Public Lecture, sponsored by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, was given jointly by Stephen Hawking and Michael Green at 19:00 on Tuesday 31st March. Please see the Public Lecture page for more details.
Arend Bayer | Tim Browning | Mirna Dzamonja |
Adrian Constantin | Yaroslav Kurylev | Brita Nucinkis |
Neil O'Connell | Oliver Riordan | Dmitriy Rumynin |
Richard Thomas | Ye Tian | Ulrike Tillmann |
Title | Organizer[s] |
Algebraic Geometry | Gregory Sankaran |
Analysis of Non-linear PDEs | Neshan Wickramsekera |
Applied & Computational Complex Analysis | Darren Crowdy |
Category Theory | Julia Goedecke |
Combinatorics | Andrew Thomason |
Geometry | Joel Fine & Jason Lotay |
History of Mathematics | June Barrow-Green |
Inverse Problems | Carola Schoenlieb |
Mathematics, Climate & Geophysical Fluid Dynamics | Bin Cheng & Beth Wingate |
Mathematics of Information | Anders Hansen |
Piecewise Smooth Systems |
Martin Homer & John Hogan |
Number Theory | Fred Diamond & Yiannis Petridis |
Numerical Analysis & Scientific Computing | Melina Freitag & Jared Tanner |
Probability | Christina Goldschmidt & James Martin |
Quantum Information | Toby Cubitt & Berry Groisman |
Representation Theory | Stuart Martin & Nicole Snashall |
Vortex Dynamics & Topological Fluid Dynamics | Andrew Gilbert & Koji Ohkitani |