Talks

Principal Invited Speakers       Special Sessions       General Sessions

Principal Invited Speakers

The list of principal invited lecturers and their topics was as follows:

P. B. Cohen
  9:00am 1/10/98
(Lille) "Noncommutative geometry and number theory"
  Abstract, in pdf or dvi form
W. K. Hayman
  10:00am 1/10/98
(Imperial) "Domination on sets and in norm"
  Abstract, in pdf or dvi form
G. D. James
  12:00 noon 28/9/98
(Imperial)
(web page)
"Symmetric groups and related algebras"
  Abstract, in pdf or dvi form
A. Joyal
  10:00am 30/9/98
(Montreal)
(web page)
"From covering manifolds to homology operations"
  Abstract, in pdf or dvi form
T-C. Kuo
  2:00pm 28/9/98
(Sydney) "From resolution of singularities to equisingularities"
  Abstract, in pdf or dvi form
B. D. McKay
  10:00am 29/9/98
(ANU)
(web page)
"Dominoes, Eulerian circuits, and spanning trees"
  Abstract, in pdf or dvi form
M. Murray
  9:00am 29/9/98
(Adelaide)
(web page)
"Discrete and continuous Nahm's equation"
  Abstract, in pdf or dvi form
I. Raeburn
  2:00pm 30/9/98
(Newcastle)
(web page)
"Graphs, Hilbert space and operator algebras"
  Abstract, in pdf or dvi form
G. B. Segal
  2:00pm 29/9/98
(Cambridge, now moved to Oxford)
(web page)
"Geometry of solitons"
  Abstract, in pdf or dvi form
J. F. Toland
  9:00am 30/9/98
(Bath) "Stokes waves and Hardy spaces"
  Abstract, in pdf or dvi form

Dr David Tranah, who is Publishing Director, Mathematical Sciences, for Cambridge University Press, gave a talk on mathematics publishing.

Special Sessions

Further invited talks were grouped into four "Special Sessions", as follows:

General Sessions

Details of contributed talks.

The prize for the best talk by a student went to Ruth Corran.