Maths Study Group

Archive of Talks/Visits 2011–2012

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Wednesday 19th September, Nigel Heys, Information Theory
Wednesday 5th and 12th September, no meeting
Wednesday 29th August, Carrie Rutherford, Exterior algebras (partly based on notes by Nigel Hitchin)
Wednesday 22nd August, Jon Selig, "Constraint Varieties in Robotics and Kinematics"
Wednesday 1th August, no talk
Wednesday 8th August, Koko Kayibi, Qatar University, "Sampling Ecological Occurrence Matrices"
Wednesday 1st August, no meeting
Wednesday 25th July, 1000–1800: Mini-Conference on Infinite Combinatorics at LSE
Wednesday 18th July, no meeting
Wednesday 11th July, no meeting
Wednesday 4th July, outing to QMUL to hear Malwina Luczak (Sheffield) talk about "The supermarket model with arrival rate tending to 1"
Friday 29th June, outing to LMS Hardy Lecture. The meeting starts at 1530 and is at UCL on Gower Street.
Tuesday 26th June, outing to the LMS Popular Lectures.
Wednesday 20th June, Robin Whitty, "Undecidable and non-computable" (Some of this talk was taken from an interesting preprint by Yuri Matiyasevich). My slides (which were not ready for the talk!) are here.
Wednesday 13th June, no meeting
Wednesday 6th June, Carrie Rutherford's talk on, "Exterior Algebras" was postponed.
Wednesday 30th May, outing to Oxford Combinatorics Meeting
Wednesday 23rd May, Jon Selig, Markov chains and runs of successes
Wednesday 16th May, 2-day QMUL-LSE combinatorics meeting
Wednesday 9th May, outing to see "The Edges of the Universe: Black Holes, Horizons and Strings" by Andrew Strominger at The Royal Society, London
Wednesday 2nd May, Gurjeet Dhesi, "Catalan numbers, planted plane forests and random matrices"
Wednesday 25th April, No meeting
Wednesday 18th April, Outing to Queen Mary to the inaugural meeting of the new Probability and Applications seminar: "Random permutations with cycle weights" by Daniel Ueltschi (Warwick)
Wednesday 11th April, Graham Eaton, Open University, "Potential Theory"
Wednesday 4th April, Tony Forbes, Open University, "Squaring the Circle"
Wednesday 28th March, Robin Whitty, A problem on conjugate subgroups
Wednesday 21st March, outing to 2012 Christopher Zeeman Lecture
Wednesday 3.14, Tony Forbes, Open University, "The Arithmetic-Geometric Mean and a Formula for π"
Wednesday 7th March, Robin Whitty, Group Theory and Campanology. Based on a preprint by Gary McGuire.
Wednesday 29th February, Tony Forbes, Open University, The Hardy–Littlewood Circle Method III (some notes covering all 3 of Tony's talks)
Wednesday 22nd February, Tony Forbes, Open University, The Hardy–Littlewood Circle Method II
Wednesday 15th February, no meeting
Wednesday 8th February, Tony Forbes, Open University, The Hardy–Littlewood Circle Method I: Vinogradov's Three Primes Theorem
Wednesday 1st February, Carrie Rutherford, Permutation patterns
Wednesday 25th January, outing to Open University Winter Combinatorics Meeting
Wednesday 18th January, 2012 New Year Lecture, Daniel Martins, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil, "Application of Group and Graph Theories to the Conceptual Design of Mechanisms and Robots". Some background reading is here.
Wednesday 11th January, Robin Whitty, "The Riemann zeta function". See J. Brian Conrey's nice AMS Notices article; "Error bounds in the prime number theorem" in the Lecture Schedule here; and Wikipedia articles on the Euler Product Formula, and the Prime Number Theorem
Wednesday 21st December, Tony Forbes, Open University, "Applications of PSL2(q) to
block designs"
Wednesday 14th December, Fatima Affif Chaouche, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, "On the b-coloring of Cartesian product of graphs"
Wednesday, 7th December, 6pm, outing to Royal Society to hear "Repairing the code" by Simon Boulton
Wednesday, 30th November, 6pm, outing to the LMS to the joint LMS/BCS-FACS seminar on Reasoned Modelling
Wednesday, 23rd November, Robin Whitty, LSBU, "Alan Turing, Böhm–Jacopini and the GOTO controversy"
Wednesday 16th November. No talk. But there was an outing to LMS AGM on Friday 18th.
Wednesday 9th November, Carrie Rutherford, On the cyclic sieving phenomenon III (based on Bruce Sagan's BCC talk)
Wednesday, 2nd November, outing to Old Codgers' Combinatorics Meeting, Reading University
Thursday, 3rd November, at 5.30pm, outing to Gresham College to hear "The memoirs and legacy of Évariste Galois " by Peter Neumann, Gresham College
Wednesday, 26th October, 6.30pm (doors open 5.45), outing to the Royal Society to hear the Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture by Professor Francesca Happé: "When will we understand Autism Spectrum Disorders?"
Wednesday 19th October, 6pm, outing to Gresham College to hear "The Great Mathematicians" by Robin Wilson and Raymond Flood.
Wednesday 12th October, Carrie Rutherford, On the cyclic sieving phenomenon II (based on Bruce Sagan's BCC talk)
Wednesday 5th October, Paul Klimo, "Hunt for the Hidden Constant of Motion"
Wednesday 28th September, no talk
Wednesday 21st September, Tony Forbes, Open University, Snarks.

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