Tag Archives: chromatic polynomial

Algebraic properties of chromatic polynomials, 2

Posted on 03/02/2017 by

My paper with Kerri Morgan on algebraic properties of chromatic roots (described here) has just appeared in the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics: you can find it here. I won’t say any more about it, except to pose a challenge which … Continue reading →

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Algebraic properties of chromatic roots

Posted on 04/10/2016 by

It has been a long time coming. I wrote back in 2011 about the work Kerri Morgan and I were doing on algebraic properties of chromatic roots. A paper has just gone on the arXiv. I will just recap here, … Continue reading →

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Advanced Combinatorics: the St Andrews lectures

Posted on 16/04/2016 by

Three years ago, when I joined the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews, it was suggested that I might like to give a final year MMath module on “Advanced Combinatorics”. No compulsion. Well, of course … Continue reading →

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Orbital combinatorics

Posted on 11/02/2015 by

Yesterday I went to Edinburgh to give a colloquium talk about synchronization, including the recent stuff about butterflies. The day before, I had discussed Artur Schäfer’s work with him, and he expressed a hope that if he went to the … Continue reading →

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