Category Archives: events

conferences, seminars, lectures, etc

Another date for your diary

Posted on 25/09/2012 by

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.

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Francis Buekenhout is 75

Posted on 21/09/2012 by

I have just been at a small meeting in Ghent for the 75th birthday of Francis Buekenhout. As well as proving some remarkable deep theorems in incidence geometry, Francis was the originator of the field of Diagram Geometry, where he … Continue reading →

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A date for your diary

Posted on 07/09/2012 by

On 8-10 July next year my colleagues will put on a conference to mark my retirement. Further details will be announced, but put the dates in your diary now! The preceding week is the British Combinatorial Conference at Royal Holloway. … Continue reading →

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Homogeneous structures in Prague

Posted on 30/07/2012 by

I’m just back from a very interesting few days at the 2nd Workshop on Homogeneous Structures in Prague. The first workshop was in Leeds last year, and I wrote a post describing what was, for me, the highlight: Anatoly Vershik … Continue reading →

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Information flows and information bottlenecks

Posted on 26/07/2012 by

This is copied from the Centre for Discrete Mathematics page. Network coding is a relatively new subject, exploiting the fact that the capacity of a network to carry information can be higher than its capacity for regular commodities if the … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, Isaac Newton Institute

Posted on 13/07/2012 by

On Wednesday this week I had the pleasure of attending a party to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Isaac Newton Institute. I think I was invited because I directed a programme there, on Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics, in 2008. … Continue reading →

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LTCC intensive course this week

Posted on 11/06/2012 by

Linking two previous posts, here and here: The LTCC intensive on “Laplacian Eigenvalues and Optimality”, a pure maths/statistics crossover, takes place on Wednesday and Thursday this week, starting at 1pm on Wednesday, in the Rockefeller Building, Gower Street, London (opposite … Continue reading →

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Laplacian eigenvalues and optimality

Posted on 23/05/2012 by

A commercial break … An LTCC intensive course by R. A. Bailey and Peter J. Cameron Rockefeller Building, Gower Street, London, 13-14 June 2012 The course brings together concepts from Pure Mathematics (Laplacian eigenvalues of graphs) and Statistics (optimal design … Continue reading →

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London Combinatorics Colloquia

Posted on 18/05/2012 by

This week saw the two linked London Combinatorics Colloquia, at Queen Mary and the London School of Economics. Not so long ago, a one-day meeting in Reading organised by Anthony Hilton was a fixture of the calendar. When Anthony came … Continue reading →

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Gresham College

Posted on 16/05/2012 by

Gresham College has been putting on free public lectures in the City of London since 1597; it claims the title of London’s first higher education institution. It had professors of Astronomy, Divinity, Geometry, Law, Music, Physic and Rhetoric; a professor … Continue reading →

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