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
From 29th July-2nd August Rosemary Bailey, Peter Cameron, and Siavash Lashkarighouchani attended the British Combinatorial Conference at the University of Birmingham. Peter organised a mini-symposium on Designs and Latin Squares, at which Rosemary spoke on ‘Substitutes for the non-existent square lattice design for 36 treatments’. Peter also contributed a talk on ‘Hall-Paige and synchronization’. At the conference business meeting, Peter was re-elected chair of the British Combinatorial Committee, a position he has held for 25 years.
Peter Cameron spent the week 22nd-26th July at the London Mathematical Society’s Undergraduate Summer School at the University of Leeds, where he gave two talks, one on ‘Problems around graphs, groups and semigroups’ and one on ‘The random graph’.
CIRCA members took part in the Research Day, held in the School of Mathematics and Statistics on 24th January 2019. The speakers were Rosemary Bailey, Collin Bleak, Peter Cameron, Martyn Quick, Louis Theran, and Peter Cameron. Olexandr Konovalov and Michael Torpey presented a poster.
Colva Roney-Dougal attended the conference “Topics on Groups and their Representations” at the Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano sul Garda, Italy on October 9th – 11th, 2017. She gave an invited talk “Generation of finite groups, with applications to computing normalisers” (see abstract and slides).
Martyn Quick attended the joint meeting of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques (27-29 September 2017) held at the ICMS in Edinburgh. He was invited to speak at the special session on Geometric Group Theory at this meeting and delivered a talk titled “Presentations for Thompson’s group V and its generalisations”. Colva Roney-Dougal and Colin Campbell also attended.
Peter Cameron spoke at a summer school for PhD students on Permutation Groups in Marienheide, Germany, run by the Experimental and Constructive Algebra Group at RWTH Aachen. He gave an introduction to permutation groups and applications to semigroups, and also ran the problem session (which was held outdoors, as the weather was warm).
