CIRCA

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra (CIRCA) was established in 2000 to foster new and existing collaborative research between members of the Schools of Computer Science and of Mathematics and Statistics in the area of computational abstract algebra.

The Centre undertakes mathematical research with computer assistance, develops new techniques for computation in abstract algebra and develops and distributes software implementing these techniques. This work is supported by research grants from the EPSRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Council, the European Commission and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

The Centre also organises conferences, seminars and training courses and coordinates the international efforts to develop maintain and promote the GAP (groups, algorithms and programming) software package, a leading integrated system for computational discrete mathematics and algebra.

News and Events

Remaining CIRCA seminars this term


The final two CIRCA seminars of term will be

Thursday 17th November: Finn Smith and Jacob Beaddie

Thursday 24th November: Michael Young and Peter Cameron. Note the unusual date for this one, and also that it will be in Purdie C rather than Maths.


CIRCA lunchtime seminars 2022


The seminars for Autumn 2022 will be held on Thursdays of even weeks at 1pm in Theatre B of Maths. The schedule at present is:

September 22nd: Colva Roney-Dougal and Chris Jefferson

October 6th: Ruth Hoffman and Alan Logan

October 20th: Saul Freedman and Ozgur Akgun

November 3rd: Jendrik Brachter (TU Darmstadt)

November 17th: TBA

December 1st: Michael Young and Peter Cameron