Category Archives: events

conferences, seminars, lectures, etc

G2D2, 2: first week

Posted on 18/08/2019 by

The campus of the China Three Gorges Hotel has a small river, full of waterlilies and lotus flowers. Beside it runs a main road, along which big water trucks run, shooting atomised water from cannon-like structures; we are told this … Continue reading →

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BCC at Birmingham, days 4 and 5

Posted on 02/08/2019 by

Thursday saw my favourite of the plenary talks. Iain Moffatt told us about ribbon graphs and delta-matroids. Ribbon graphs are essentially the same as graphs drawn on surfaces (we just fatten up each vertex to a disc and each edge … Continue reading →

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BCC at Birmingham, days 1-3

Posted on 31/07/2019 by

This week I am in Birmingham for the British Combinatorial Conference. The organisation of the conference is outstanding. For one small example, yesterday, fifteen minutes before the Business Meeting was due to start, the Chairman noticed that we didn’t have … Continue reading →

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Aliens Do Exist

Posted on 24/07/2019 by

The people from the planet Ade have intercepted radio transmissions from Earth, and have discovered that we know about the Petersen graph and the root system E6. One day, a flying saucer from Ade arrives on Earth and delivers an … Continue reading →

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London Combinatorics Colloquia 2019

Posted on 11/05/2019 by

In London last week for the two combinatorics colloquia, at Queen Mary and LSE. The weather was unusually grey and rainy; it seems in retrospect that it is almost always fine and sunny for this event, but I know that … Continue reading →

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A virtual colloquium

Posted on 22/04/2019 by

I feel a bit nervous about advertising this. This Thursday, 25 April, I am for the first time ever giving a virtual colloquium. The Northeast Combinatorics Network (that’s Northeast North America, for pedants) have an occasional Virtual Combinatorics Colloquium, and … Continue reading →

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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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