Tag Archives: Cheryl Praeger

Summer school at Marienheide

Posted on 24/09/2017 by

Last week, I was lecturing at a summer school in Franz Dohrmann Haus, a very pleasant conference centre in the small town of Marienheide, not far from Köln. Apart from a walk on Wednesday afternoon, I didn’t get much exercise, … Continue reading →

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Two publications

Posted on 02/04/2015 by

I don’t think it happened to me before that two of my papers were “published” on the same day. Fortunately, it didn’t happen on April Fools’ Day … One is my paper with Pablo Spiga on switching classes. I described … Continue reading →

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A symmetric design

Posted on 24/08/2014 by

Quite a long time ago, Arunas Rudvalis discovered a symmetric 2-(14080,1444,148) design: a set of 14080 points, with 14080 subsets of size 1444 called blocks, with the property that any point lies in 1444 blocks, any two points in 148 … Continue reading →

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