Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference 2007

6 - 8 June 2007
St Andrews University

Edinburgh Mathematical Society

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The conference will begin at 4pm on Wednesday 6th of June and finish with the conference dinner on Friday 8th of June. Friday night accommodation and Saturday breakfast is included in the registration fee.

Invited Talks on Combinatorics

Dr Carrie Rutherford is a senior lecturer at London South Bank University. Her research interests are in matroid theory, coding theory, the polynomial links between matroids and codes and coprimeness of polynomials over GF(2).

Prof. Bruce Sagan is a professor at Michigan State University in the US. His areas of expertise are algebraic and enumerative combinatorics and graph theory: symmetric functions, groups and representations, tableaux algorithms, chromatic and independence polynomials of graphs, the mobius function and homology of partially ordered sets, pattern avoidance and containment in permutations.

Prof. Robin Wilson is a professor at Open University, as well as a fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and the professor of geometry at Gresham College, London. His expertise lies in graph theory (in particular, colouring problems), combinatorics, and the history of mathematics.

Invited Talks on 'Post-PhD Life'

Dr Colva Roney-Dougal is a lecturer in Pure Mathematics at St Andrews University and the local representative of the British Combinatorial Bulletin. She is a computational group theorist whose main research interests are permutation and matrix groups, as well as symmetry and inference.
Between submitting her thesis and passing her viva at Queen Mary, University of London, Dr Roney-Dougal taught courses at Queen Mary and City University. She then held postdoctoral positions at the University of Sydney, Australia, and the University St Andrews before becoming a lecturer here. Dr Roney-Dougal will give a talk on what it is like to work as a postdoc.

Dr Stephen Waton submitted his PhD on the Combinatorics of Permutations in September. He now works as a commodities strategist at Goldman Sachs in London. He will talk about the jobs available to PhD mathematicians in finance, the opportunities available at his company, the differences between working in banking and academia and what city interviewers expect from Postgraduates.

 

 

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