Tag Archives: representation theory

GRA Workshop 1

Posted on 15/01/2020 by

Last week was the introductory/instructional workshop for the Isaac Newton Institute’s six-month programme on Groups, Representations and Applications. We were thrown in the deep end right at the start. The first two talks were on what were claimed to be … Continue reading →

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An LTCC book

Posted on 29/06/2016 by

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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The synchronizing monster

Posted on 11/11/2015 by

Today, a long paper on synchronizing groups (108 pages), by João Araújo, Ben Steinberg, and me, appears on the arXiv. It has been a long time coming. To quote from a post of mine in 2010, I became involved in … Continue reading →

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Permutation groups and transformation semigroups

Posted on 31/07/2015 by

When I first decided to apply to the LMS to run a Durham symposium on Permutation Groups and Transformation Semigroups, I had a fairly clear idea of what I wanted: topics (both finite and infinite) where the techniques and results … Continue reading →

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