Tag Archives: model theory

London Combinatorics Colloquia 2019

Posted on 11/05/2019 by Peter Cameron

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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Dugald Macpherson’s birthday meeting

Posted on 27/09/2018 by Peter Cameron

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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From permutation groups to model theory

Posted on 16/05/2018 by Peter Cameron

I cannot resist a conference with a title like this! But in this case, there is another very important reason to attend. In the mid-1970s, when I began being interested in infinite permutation groups (I had been a strictly finite … Continue reading →

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An LTCC book

Posted on 29/06/2016 by Peter Cameron

The Taught Course Centres for PhD students in the Mathematical Sciences were set up as the result of a recommendation of the last-but-one International Review of Mathematics. The review panel said that the highly specialised nature of British PhDs meant … Continue reading →

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