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conferences, seminars, lectures, etc

Old Codger’s Combinatorics Conference

Posted on 09/11/2018 by

Wednesday was the Old Codger’s Combinatorics Conference at the University of Reading, a one-day meeting organised by Anthony Hilton. The position of the apostrophe is correct: it refers to the fact that Anthony admits that he is an old codger … Continue reading →

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Dugald Macpherson’s birthday meeting

Posted on 27/09/2018 by

Still catching up on the backlog: last week I was in Edinburgh for a meeting at ICMS for Dugald Macpherson’s birthday. The ICMS has just moved to new premises at the top of the University of Edinburgh’s new Bayes Centre, … Continue reading →

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8th Cracow Conference on Graph Theory

Posted on 19/09/2018 by

How do two people share a cake? As everyone knows, one cuts and the other chooses. This does not assume that the two people value the cake in the same ways: maybe one loves cherries, and the other hates icing. … Continue reading →

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Groups, geometries and representations

Posted on 16/09/2018 by

Here, more than a week late, are comments on the conference formally titled “Groups, Geometries and Representations, Oxford 2018”, actually a birthday conference for Dan Segal and Aner Shalev. I stayed in Balliol College’s new Jowett Walk Building, just around … Continue reading →

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Linstat 2018

Posted on 27/08/2018 by

Or, to give the full title, International Conference on Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference, with Celebration of Tadeusz Caliński’s 90th Birthday. The conference was in Będlewo Castle, once a private residence for a noble family which had more … Continue reading →

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Pilsen, days 5 and 6

Posted on 08/07/2018 by

So the conference is over; but before I start a description of the last two days, let me pose a problem which might be an interesting small research topic for someone. As I have said, statisticians love symmetric real matrices. … Continue reading →

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Pilsen, days 3 and 4

Posted on 06/07/2018 by

After the rush of the first two days, things quietened down a bit, so I can stop and look around me. The conference logo, and an explanation, is here. Norman Biggs, one of the pioneers of algebraic graph theory, speculated … Continue reading →

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