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Category Archives: events
London Combinatorics Colloquia, 2
It’s that time of year again, and while I miss the buttercups in Reading, we had as usual a feast of interesting mathematics and a large and enthusiastic audience. It was a bit more tightly focussed than I would have … Continue reading
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Tagged amenability, Ben Green, Cayley graphs, Endre Szemeredi, Gabor Kun, Noga Alon, Norman Biggs, Regularity Lemma, sum-free sets
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Conference walks
Important: Marcin Krzywkowski has asked for the walks to be swapped, i.e. the Chilterns walk on the Sunday before the conference. Is there any support for this? It would be an all-day walk; we might upgrade the Thursday walk to … Continue reading
How the light gets in
How the light gets in describes itself as a “festival of philosophy and music”; it takes place in Hay-on-Wye in late May and early June this year. By some fortunate combination of circumstances, it happens that I will be taking … Continue reading
Two more lectures
Last Thursday a select audience was treated to two excellent lectures. The occasion was the presentation of the Crighton medals. This award is named in honour of David Crighton, who was president of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, … Continue reading
South-eastern
The South-Eastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing has been going for 44 years. I am not sure of its early history. For some time it alternated between Boca Raton (Florida) and Baton Rouge (Louisiana), but now it … Continue reading
Two lectures
Last Friday I heard two very interesting lectures. One was the London Mathematical Society’s Mary Cartwright lecture, timed to coincide with the launch of a report by the LMS on good practice in supporting women in academic careers. It was … Continue reading
Conferences in July
It would be the 100th birthday of Paul Erdős, if he were still with us. The Rényi Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are marking the ocasion with an Erdős Centennial conference in the first week of July. In … Continue reading
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Tagged algebra, British Combinatorial Conference, combinatorics, Erdos Centennial, walk
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Combinatorics, Algebra and More
There is now a web page for this conference, here. I am overwhelmed by the list of speakers that Leonard Soicher has managed to put together: João Araújo, László Babai (tbc), R. A. Bailey, Peter Cameron, Michael Giudici, Timothy Gowers … Continue reading
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An invitation
As I have mentioned, I retire from full-time employment at the end of this month. I would like to mark the occasion in some way, but have not been sufficiently organised to plan anything for the exact date. So, taking … Continue reading
Another date for your diary
On 20 February 2013, there will be a Queen Mary Algorithms Day, run by the QM Centre for Discrete Mathematics. The webpage has a list of speakers; further details will follow.
