General Meeting Minutes for 1974
A General Meeting of the British Mathematical Colloquium was held in the Molecular Sciences Building, University of Sussex, at 2.15 p.m. on Wednesday 3rd April 1974.
Professor W Ledermann was in the chair.
Professor W Ledermann was in the chair.
- The Chairman welcomed the guest speakers Prof E Brieskorn, Prof G Stampacchia and Prof H Bass.
- The minutes of the General Meeting at Manchester were read and approved.
- The accounts of the Twenty-Fifth Colloquium were read and approved.
- Prof A O Morris on behalf of the University of Aberystwyth invited the 1976 Colloquium to Aberystwyth, the dates for the Colloquium being given as April 6th - April 10th. Prof W L Edge on behalf of the University of Edinburgh invited the 1977 Colloquium to Edinburgh in March 1977. Both invitations were accepted with acclamation.
- The following retired from the Committee:
Prof R W Carter, Prof J Duncan, Prof I G Macdonald, Dr I R Porteous, Prof G E Reuter, Dr G P Scott, Dr E Wallace.
The following were elected to the Committee:
Prof J F Adams, Dr P Bacsich, Dr N H Bingham, Dr G Brown, Dr A M Davie, Prof A W Goldie, Prof H Halberstam. - It was announced that the committee would meet at 8.30 p.m. in the Orange Room in the Refectory.
- Prof D Rees proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman, Secretary and others who had helped in the organisation of the Colloquium.
- The question of publication of proceedings was raised and gained little support.
- The organising committee were asked to look into the possibility of providing short abstracts of the morning talks to help members in choosing between the parallel sessions.