Category Archives: events

conferences, seminars, lectures, etc

St Andrews Combinatorics Day

Posted on 18/05/2022 by Peter Cameron

We are having a home-grown combinatorics day in St Andrews next Tuesday, 24 May. Here is the programme. Come along if you are nearby on the day. It will be in Lecture Theatre B in the Mathematical Institute. 11-11:30 Rosemary … Continue reading →

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Peter Neumann memorial meeting

Posted on 14/04/2022 by Peter Cameron

On Saturday, I was in Oxford for a memorial meeting for Peter Neumann, organised by Chris Hollings for the British Society for the History of Mathematics (of which Peter was a past president). It was a hybrid meeting, with half … Continue reading →

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Southeastern!

Posted on 12/03/2022 by Peter Cameron

I was privileged to be able to attend, to give its full title, the 53rd Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, in Boca Raton, Florida. Does any other conference in the area have such a long and … Continue reading →

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Graphs on groups, 8

Posted on 16/08/2021 by Peter Cameron

The dark clouds seem to have lifted a bit. Perhaps now, that the last rush of conferences for a while is over, life can return to something like normality … For me the most significant event was the last in … Continue reading →

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Graphs on groups, 7

Posted on 06/05/2021 by Peter Cameron

Nothing much to report, just a few connections. My long paper has appeared on-line ahead of publication in the International Journal of Group Theory. You can get a copy here (click on PDF). Next week, on Wednesday 12 May at … Continue reading →

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Graphs on groups, 6

Posted on 28/04/2021 by Peter Cameron

The Groups and Graphs seminar has been running well. I find that I feel close to many people in the seminar even though most likely we have not met face to face. So I feel concerned about the Covid wave … Continue reading →

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Graphs on groups, 5

Posted on 26/03/2021 by Peter Cameron

I gave two lectures on this stuff to a new research seminar on Groups and Graphs, run by Vijayakumar Ambat in Kochi, Kerala. The first was an introduction to the hierarchy, the second was about cographs and twin reduction, why … Continue reading →

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Hoffman, Lovász and Haemers

Posted on 23/03/2021 by Peter Cameron

At the weekend I attended remotely a memorial session for Alan Hoffman, organised by Bill Pulleyblank. I found it informative, as well as moving. Hoffman is well-known in the algebraic graph theory community for a number of remarkable achievements, including … Continue reading →

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13th Iranian International Group Theory Conference

Posted on 30/01/2021 by Peter Cameron

This week has been rather a rush. As well as the first week of semester (and my first ever experience of on-line undergraduate lecturing), I have been attending the 13th Iranian International Group Theory Conference in Urmia, Iran. (I had … Continue reading →

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Ramanujan+100

Posted on 15/12/2020 by Peter Cameron

I have just spent the last four days in Kochi, Kerala, at the International Conference on Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics, commemorating Srinivasa Ramanujan, the great Indian mathematician, on the 100th anniversary of his far-too-early death. The conference had perhaps … Continue reading →

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