Category Archives: events

conferences, seminars, lectures, etc

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Posted on 08/05/2012 by

On Friday we had three lovely talks by Benny Sudakov and two of his students from UCLA, who are currently visiting Cambridge. The students both gave beautifully clear talks; Choongbum Lee wrote on the board, while we got Huang Hao’s … Continue reading →

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Endre Szemerédi

Posted on 22/03/2012 by

Endre Szemerédi has won the Abel Prize. I have had very little contact with him, but just recently in my post on Makám I recalled the occasion when I gave a conference talk in the same time-slot as him (along … Continue reading →

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A research visit

Posted on 18/12/2011 by

The picture on the left could be a corridor in any newish university building anywhere in the world. But when you look through the window at the end of the corridor, you see that it could only be in Australia. … Continue reading →

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35ACCMCC at Monash

Posted on 10/12/2011 by

I’ve just spent a week at the 35th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing at Monash University in Clayton, a suburb of Melbourne. The conference happened to coincide with a research visit to Monash, about which I will … Continue reading →

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Kolkom in Magdeburg

Posted on 14/11/2011 by

At the weekend, I was at the Kolloquium über Kombinatorik in Magdeburg. A two-day meeting with four plenary speakers (of whom I was one) and nearly 60 contributed talks in four parallel sessions. So plenty going on. The conference logo … Continue reading →

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British Mathematical Colloquium

Posted on 31/10/2011 by

I need your help. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we are hosting the British Mathematical Colloquium in April 2014. When I first went to the BMC as a student, the pattern of main talks was already established: high-profile … Continue reading →

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Conway’s Nim field

Posted on 29/10/2011 by

Last Monday, John Conway visited us. (He has two mathematical children and one grandchild on the permanent staff in the department.) He gave a seminar to what may have been the largest audience ever for a Pure Mathematics seminar. He … Continue reading →

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Algebraic statistics

Posted on 28/10/2011 by

Henry Wynn and Hugo Maruri ran a two-day workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute on algebraic statistics. There are more connections between algebra and statistics than I will describe here, but the one day of the workshop that I was … Continue reading →

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Galois

Posted on 25/10/2011 by

Today is Évariste Galois’ 200th birthday. The event will be celebrated with the publication of a new transcription and translation of Galois’ works (edited by Peter M. Neumann) by the European Mathematical Society. The announcement is here. The life of … Continue reading →

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The Aitken lectures

Posted on 19/10/2011 by

Last Friday and this Monday we were visited by Geoff Whittle, the 2011 Aitken lecturer, sponsored by the London Mathematical Society. It was good for me to go some small way towards repaying Geoff’s hospitality when I was in Wellington … Continue reading →

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