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Archive of Talks/Visits 2006–2007

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Wednesday, 12th September, 15:30 - 16:30, Outing to (room CS/446) Queen Mary, University of London to hear Steve Le Comber talking about Bees and the travelling salesman problem: How tiny brains solve complex cognitive tasks.
Friday, 7th September 2007, Tony Forbes, Open University, Applications of Weil's Theorem on Character Sums.
Tuesday, 28th August 2007,
1. Cheng Yeaw Ku, Caltech, A Random Construction of Permutation Codes and Covering Radius
2. Mike Newman, Partition Graphs.
Wednesday, 22th August 2007, Tony Forbes, Open University, Designs and n-existentially closed graphs.
Wednesday, 15th August 2007, Jon Selig, Delaunay triangulation, oriented matroids and Clifford algebras.
Wednesday, 8th August 2007, Emil Vaughan, Queen Mary, University of London, Graphs on surfaces.
Wednesday, 1st August 2007, Carrie Rutherford, Oriented Ribbon Graphs.
Wednesday, 25th July 2007, Fatma Al-Kharousi, Queen Mary, University of London, Cohomology of groups.
Wednesday, 18th July 2007, Fatma Al-Kharousi, Queen Mary, University of London, Cohomology.
Wednesday, 4th July 2007, Various, Practice BCC talks.
Wednesday, 27th June 2007, Tony Forbes, Open University, Hypergeometric series.
Wednesday, 20th June 2007, Robin Whitty, Euler tours.
Wednesday, 13th June 2007, Carrie Rutherford, Congruences for combinatorial sequences.
Wednesday, 30th May 2007, Tony Forbes, Open University, The design of the century (abstract) & Affine and projective geometries from a design-theoretic point of view.
Wednesday, 23rd May 2007, Carrie Rutherford, Polynomial coprimality II.
Wednesday, 16th May 2007, Outing to the London Combinatorics Meeting.
Wednesday, 9th May 2007, Carrie Rutherford, Polynomial coprimality I.
Wednesday, 2nd May 2007, Robin Whitty, Noetherian Rings.
Wednesday, 25th April 2007, Taoyang Wu, Queen Mary, University of London, On regular configurations.
Wednesday, 18th April 2007, Robin Whitty, Graceful trees and graphs.
Wednesday, 11th April 2007, Carrie Rutherford, Oriented matroids workshop.
Wednesday, 4th April 2007, Tony Forbes, Open University, Affine and projective planes from a design-theoretic viewpoint.
Wednesday, 28th March 2007, Robin Whitty, Centrolinearity 3.
Wednesday, 21st March 2007, Carrie Rutherford, Oriented Matroids - an axiomatic approach.
Wednesday, 14th March 2007, Oxford Combinatorics Meeting.
Wednesday, 7th March 2007, We are invited to a talk by Dr Thomas Riesse from Bremen Technical University on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Wednesday, 14th February 2007, Tao Yang Wu, Queen Mary, University of London, Pseudo-random sets.
Wednesday, 7th February 2007, Mike Newman, Queen Mary, University of London, Colin de Verdiere Number Part Two.
Wednesday, 31st January 2007, Carrie Rutherford, Oriented matroids.
Wednesday, 24th January 2007, Open University Winter Combinatorics Meeting.
Wednesday, 17th January 2007, Robin Whitty, Centrolinearity 2.
Wednesday, 10th January 2007, Tony Forbes, Open University, Squares: Latin, magic and sudoku.
Wednesday, 13th December 2006, Bill Jackson, University of London, Infinitesimal rigidity of bar-and-joint, body-and-bar, and body-and-hinge frameworks.
Wednesday, 6th December 2006, Natalia Iyudu, University of London, Constructive definitions of the Goebner basis and graphs associated to algebras
Wednesday, 29th November 2006, John Selig, Dickson's Lemma and Higman's Lemma
Wednesday, 22nd November 2006, Natalia Iyudu, University of London, Groebner bases in the ideals of algebras with multiplicative bases
Wednesday, 15th November 2006, Jon Selig, Polynomial division
Wednesday, 8th November 2006, Tao Yang Wu, Queen Mary, University of London, Expanders: Zig-zag product
Wednesday, 1st November 2006, Tao Yang Wu, Queen Mary, University of London, Expanders: Background I
Wednesday, 25th October 2006, Mike Newman, Queen Mary, University of London, Colin de Verdiere Number Part One.
Wednesday, 18th October 2006, Robin Whitty, Centrolinearity 1
Wednesday, 11th October 2006, "outing" to hear Mark Jerrum, Approximating the Tutte polynomial: a status report, at Queen Mary, University of London. Slides from a similar, previous talk are here.
Wednesday, 4th October 2006, Tao Yang Wu, Queen Mary, University of London, Graph Homomorphisms: a language
Wednesday, 27th September 2006, Graph Homomorphisms: a review of these introductory notes

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