Thirty third British Mathematical Colloquium

This was held at Oxford: 31 March - 2 April 1981.

The enrolment was 400.    The chairman was M F Atiyah.

Minutes of the General meeting are available at THIS LINK

Minutes of the Committee meeting are available at THIS LINK

The plenary speakers were:
Connes, A Operator algebras, K-theory and foliations
Maynard-Smith, J Evolutionary game theory
Schmidt, W Diophantine equations and inequalities

The morning speakers were:
Ball, J MGlobal invertibility of Sobolev mappings and the interpenetration of matter
Bollobas, BRandom graphs
Bryant, R MSylow subgroups of locally finite groups
Eccles, PMultiple points of immersions
Eklof, P CApplications of set theory to homological algebra
Freyd, PA proof of the independence of the Axiom of Choice
Gibbons, G WThe Euclidean approach to quantum gravity
Gillespie, T ASelf-adjoint operators on Banach spaces
Gratton-Guiness, GPsychology in the foundations of mathematics: the cases of Boole and Cantor
Grimmett, GStochastic models for invasion and death
Hall, R RHooley's Delta function and the propinquity of divisors
Jones, J D SThe Kervaire invariant in geometry and homotopy theory
Lewis, J TNon-commutative stochastic processes
Series, C M Infinite words and limit sets of Fuchsian groups
Siebenmann, LNew geometric factorisations of classical knots
Taylor, M JGalois modules
Vamos, PNumerical invariants and ordered Grothendieck groups