Maths Study Group

Archive of Talks/Visits 2010–2011

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Wednesday 14th September, the MSG did not meet
Wednesday 7th September, Nigel Heys, Kalman Filters
Wednesday 31st August, Jon Selig, Gröbner Bases IV: Buchberger's Algorithm
Wednesday 24th August, Koko Kayibi, Qatar University, Linear generation of simple graphs with given degree sequence
Wednesday 17th August, the MSG did not meet
Wednesday 10th August, Jon Selig's talk on Gröbner Bases had to be postponed again!
Wednesday 3rd August, Tony Forbes, Open University, Some remarks on sudoku
Wednesday 27th July, Carrie Rutherford, On the cyclic sieving phenomenon (based on Bruce Sagan's BCC talk)
Wednesday 20th July, Koko Kayibi's talk had to be cancelled
Wednesday 13th July, Robin Whitty, Bipartite Matchings
Wednesday 6th July, outing to Royal Society Summer Exhibition (the mathematics exhibits are listed here)
Wednesday 29th June, outing to London Mathematical Society Popular Lectures
Wednesday 22nd June, Carrie Rutherford, Heavy O-Graphs
Wednesday 15th June, Jon Selig's talk on Gröbner Bases had to be postponed.
Wednesday 8th June, Tony Forbes, Geometric graph designs
Wednesday 1st June, Jon Selig, Gröbner Bases Part III: Gröbner bases and monomial ideals
Wednesday 25th May, Robin Whitty, the Szemerédi-Trotter Theorem
Wednesday 18th May, Outing to Queen Mary for One-Day Colloquium in Combinatorics
Wednesday 11th May, Jon Selig, Gröbner Bases Part II: Monomial Orders and the Division Algorithm
Wednesday, 4th May, Jon Selig, Gröbner Bases Part I: Varieties and Ideals
Wednesday, 20th April 2011, Carrie Rutherford, On the structure and density of sign-P-matrices and their associated graphs
Wednesday, 30th March 2011, Taoyang Wu, National University of Singapore, Coalescent Theory
Wednesday, 23rd March 2011, outing to City University to hear John McKay, Some recent thoughts on Sporadics
Wednesday, 9th March 2011, Tony Forbes, Open University, More on algebraic numbers II
Wednesday, 2nd March 2011, Tony Forbes, Open University, More on algebraic numbers I
Monday 21st Feb 2011, outing to the Annual Queen Mary Maths lectures.
Wednesday 16th Feb 2011, outing to a Lighthill Institute Evening Lecture (Chris Budd, University of Bath, Mathematical Radar).
Wednesday, 9th February 2011, Robin Whitty, Symmetric polynomials.
Wednesday, 2nd February 2011, Koko Kayibi, Qatar University, The T-tetrominoes tilings markov chain is rapidly mixing
Wednesday 26th January 2011, 2011 New Year Lecture, Elizabeth Mansfield, University of Kent, Mathematics of handwriting recognition.
Wednesday, 19th January, Graham Farr (Monash), Transforms, minors and generalised Tutte polynomials.
Wednesday, 15th December 2010, Carrie Rutherford, Greedoids.
Wednesday, 1st December 2010, Carrie Rutherford, Submodular Functions.
Wednesday, 24th November 2010, Carrie Rutherford, Transversal Matroids II.
Wednesday, 17th November 2010, Carrie Rutherford, Transversal Matroids I.
Wednesday, 3rd November 2010, outing to Reading Old Codger's One-Day Combinatorics Colloquium.
Wednesday, 27th October 2010, Ken Lord, Approximation Theory.
Wednesday, 20th October 2010, outing to LIMS for talks on Law of Mass Action & Inferring Physical Mechanisims.
Wednesday, 13th October 2010, Robin Whitty, Pfaffing around with Pfaffians.
Wednesday, 6th October 2010, Sam Tarzi, Queen Mary, University of London, Cartan Triality and the random 3-coloured graph.
Wednesday, 29th September 2010, Sam Tarzi, Queen Mary, University of London, Introduction to Countable Random Graphs.
Wednesday, 22th September 2010, Fatima Affif Chaouche, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, Graphic and Fano Matroids.
Wednesday, 8th September 2010, outing to hear Andrea Bertozzi, Professor of Mathematics at University of California Los Angeles, speaking on Particle Laden Flow. This is a LIMS seminar.
Wednesday, 25th August 2010, Carrie Rutherford, Batch Codes and Transversal Matroids III.
Wednesday, 18th August 2010, Carrie Rutherford, Batch Codes and Transversal Matroids II.
Wednesday, 11th August 2010, Koko Kayibi, Random generation of graphs with prescribed degree sequence.
Monday, 26th July 2010, Simeon Ball, On large subsets of a finite vector space in which every subset of basis size is a basis.
Wednesday, 14th July 2010, Carrie Rutherford, Batch Codes and Transversal Matroids I.
Wednesday, 7th July 2010, hi-jacked by Robin Whitty.

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