• The BMC is the annual meeting of the British Pure Mathematics community.
• It attracts participants from across the UK and around the world.
• The meetings began in 1949 and recent conferences have included those held at Leicester in 2011 and at Edinburgh in 2010.
• The BMC was last held at the University of Kent in 1971.
• A comprehensive listing of past conferences can be accessed online at http://www.gap-system.org/~history/BMC

• The programme for the event (PDF, 204 KB) was last updated on 7 March (previous version 24 February). Later versions will be posted here if the schedule changes.
• Registration will be from 12:00 onwards on Monday 16 April with the formal opening at 15:45 with the opening lecture by Professor Robert Soare commencing at 16:00.
• The event will finish in the early afternoon of Thursday 19 April. The closing talk by Professor Martin Lorenz, "Prime ideals and group actions in noncommutative algebra", commences at 11:30 a.m.
• BMC 2012 will include a celebration of the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing.
• Dr Andrew Hodges, Fellow at Oxford University and author of "Alan Turing: the Enigma", will give a public lecture on the life and work of Alan Turing.
• Professor Robert Soare of the University of Chicago will give a plenary lecture on "Mathematics and the Turing Renaissance".
• There will be a workshop on Turing's Legacy in Mathematics and Computer Science. Abstracts and slides from this workshop are available via Professor Simon Thompson's web pages.

• Christine Bessenrodt (Hannover) - On the combinatorics of quasisymmetric functions
• Robert Soare (Chicago) - Mathematics and the Turing Renaissance
• Andrew Hodges (Oxford) - The Life and Work of Alan Turing
• Martin Lorenz (Temple) - Prime ideals and group actions in noncommutative algebra
• Idun Reiten (Trondheim) - Quivers in representation theory
• Christiane Tretter (Bern) - Operator theory and applications: a fruitful interplay

Download full details of the Plenary Sessions (PDF, filesize 302 KB)

• Sue Black (UCL)
• Ken Brown (Glasgow)
• Rachel Camina (Cambridge)
• Cornelia Drutu (Oxford)
• Des Evans (Cardiff)
• David Harel (Weizmann) - Computers are Not Omnipotent
• Malwina Luczak (Sheffield)
• Leonid Parnovski (UCL)
• Sarah Rees (Newcastle)
• Peter Symonds (Manchester)
• Anne Taormina (Durham)
• Joachim von Below (Littoral)

• Algebraic Transformation Groups (updated 10/4/12)
• Mathematics Education: Assessment Practices
• Mathematical Physics
• Noncommutative Geometry
• Number Theory and Algebraic Geometry
• Operator Theory
• Turing's Legacy

The 56th meeting of the Bristol Leicester Oxford Colloquium (BLOC) is a satellite activity of the BMC and this will take place on Monday 16 April from 12:00 - 15:30. Further details about BLOC.