Category Archives: events

conferences, seminars, lectures, etc

G2D2, 5: The logo revisited

Posted on 10/09/2019 by

There has been further discussion of the G2 logo; here is a brief summary. Elena Konstantinova tells me that it was designed by Vava Stefoglo; her portfolio is here. She is not a mathematician but received a good education in … Continue reading →

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G2D2, 4: the second week

Posted on 04/09/2019 by

The lecturers of the first two minicourses now gave way for the second team. Mike Boyle and Scott Schmieding told us about symbolic dynamics, in particular, subshifts and their automorphism groups. This was particularly valuable to me: I had dove … Continue reading →

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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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