Committee Meeting Minutes for 1965
Minutes of the meeting of the Committee of the British Mathematical Colloquium, held at Queens College, Dundee at 9 p.m. on Thursday 8th April 1965.
- Professor J Clunie was appointed Chairman.
- Dr T Kövari was nominated as Secretary for 1966, and co-opted to the Committee.
- The minutes of the 1964 Committee meeting were read and approved.
- Dr Anderson reported:
(a) No membership fee was charged in the case of invited speakers and Dundee members.
(b) The L.M.S. and the Edinburgh Mathematical Society distributed the leaflets for the Dundee meeting; the American Mathematical Society and the Vereinigung published a note concerning the meeting.
(c) Donation of £10 was received from Mrs C Tanner and Dr R O Davies.
(d) A grant of £25.10.0 was received from the British Council towards Prof Chevalley's expenses.
(e) Prof Halmos's air fare was paid by the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.A.). - It was decided that the card-index of the B.M.C. should be handed over to Dr Kövari, without bringing it uptodate, but with a corrected List of Members of the Dundee meeting.
- It was decided that the B.M.C. should pay the travel expenses of
a) Prof. H Reiler
b) Prof G Temple - provided that he can not obtain financial support from his own university. - After some discussion it was agreed that the 1966 meeting should have the same type of programme as the 1965 one.
- Speakers for the 1966 meeting were discussed.
- Professor Weston confirmed the invitation from Swansea for 4th April - 8th April, 1967.
Dr Hale invited the B.M.C. to meet at York in 1968. No final decision was reached on this subject. - Dr Todd suggested that at future committee meetings the discussion of subjects should precede the discussion of speakers.
- The meeting closed at 10.45 p.m.