Celebration for Rosemary Bailey and Peter Cameron
On August 12th there will be a celebration of Peter and Rosemary’s time at St Andrews, featuring two talks by early career researchers who have worked closely with Rosemary and Peter.
2.30 – 3.30 Mia Tackney From the Ground Up: Experiments in Fields and in Clinics
Abstract: Over ten years ago, as an undergraduate student at St Andrews, I had the privilege of taking Rosemary Bailey’s class on Design of Experiments. I would like to give an account of what it was like sit in her class, where she took us through a myriad of experiments from her experiences at Rothamsted Research and beyond. She also provided us with a visual tool – the Hasse diagram – which displays factors in an experiment and their relations, and prepared us for consultations with scientists. I will discuss how her way of thinking has shaped my work in clinical trials, and recent developments by collaborators on the use of Hasse Diagrams in clinical trials for complex interventions.
3.30 – 4.00 Tea in the Common Room
4.00 – 5.00 Scott Harper Cameron counts and Cauchy numbers
Abstract: Cauchy’s theorem tells us that a finite group has an element of order p for every prime p dividing the group order, and Sylow’s theorem tells us that a finite group has a subgroup of order q for every prime power q dividing the group order. What about numbers other than prime powers? For instance, what can be said if 6 divides the group order? Given the broad audience for this talk, I will start very generally by discussing how I think about finite groups, focussing on the influence Peter had on me as an undergraduate. This will lead into some work Peter and I did recently, joint with Craven, Dorbidi and Sambale, that addresses the above questions and more.
5.00 – 6.00 Reception in Room 1A
6.30pm onwards: dinner in a local restaurant
The talks will be in Theatre C of the Mathematical Institute.
All welcome! But if you’d like to come to the reception and/or the dinner, please email [email protected] by 1st August, for booking purposes.