Computing with Transformations: Groups and Semigroups
Markus Pfeiffer will speak at the York Semigroup Seminar on 8th November 2017. The title of his talk is “Computing with Transformations: Groups and Semigroups”, and the abstract can be seen here.
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Workshop on groups, generalisations and applications
There will be a workshop on Groups, Generalisations and Applications at the ICMS in Edinburgh on the afternoon of Wednesday 8 November. Organisers are Jim Howie (Heriot-Watt), Ben Martin (Aberdeen) and Colva…
CIRCA Lunchtime seminar
The next CIRCA lunchtime seminar will be on Thursday 26th October 2917 at 1pm today in Theatre A of Maths. Nayab Khalid and Mun See Chang will be speaking.
Joint EMS-SCM meeting at ICMS
Martyn Quick attended the joint meeting of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques (27-29 September 2017) held at the ICMS in Edinburgh. He was invited to speak at the special session…
Permutation Groups in Marienheide
Peter Cameron spoke at a summer school for PhD students on Permutation Groups in Marienheide, Germany, run by the Experimental and Constructive Algebra Group at RWTH Aachen. He gave an introduction to permutation…
Groups St Andrews 2017 in Birmingham
Groups St Andrews 2017 in Birmingham took place on August 5th-13th. This is the tenth in the series of Groups St Andrews Conferences which have been held every four years from 1981. The main speakers were Michael…
All kinds of mathematics
A conference “All Kinds of Mathematics Remind me of You” to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of Peter Cameron took place in Lisbon on 24-27 July 2017. It was followed by a one-day workshop “Symmetry in Finite and…
Peter Cameron awarded the 2017 LMS Senior Whitehead Prize
Congratulations to Peter Cameron on being awarded the 2017 Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society! The prize is awarded for ‘exceptional research contributions across combinatorics and group theory,…
NBSAN meeting in St Andrews
On July 13th, we hosted the meeting of NBSAN (North British Semigroups and Applications Network). It was organised by Julius Jonusas, and the speakers were Nick Gilbert, Zur Izhakian, Mark Kambites, Matt McDevitt and…
Visits and conferences – May 2017
The London Combinatorics Colloquia took place at Queen Mary University of London on 10th May, when Sophie Huczynska gave a talk “Graph classes under homomorphic image order”, and the following day at the London School…