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Archive of Talks/Visits 2013–2014

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Wednesday 17 September 2014, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU) "Buratti's Problem: the cycle version"
Wednesday 10 September 2014, Francesca Merola (Roma Tre University) "A conjecture of Buratti and its generalisations: on graphs with prescribed chromatic sequence"
Wednesday 3 September, no meeting
Wednesday 27 August 2014, Robin Whitty (Queen Mary) "Giuga's Conjecture and Differentiating Constants" (Takashi Agoh's paper is here)
Wednesday 20 August 2014, no meeting
Wednesday 13 August 2014, Robin Whitty (Queen Mary) "Counting primes" (the O(√n) implementation of Wilson's Theorem is here)
Wednesday 6 August 2014, Tony Forbes (Open) "Wilson's Theorem in design theory III". His notes.
Wednesday 30 July 2014, Tony Forbes (Open) "Wilson's Theorem in design theory II"
Wednesday 16 July 2014, Fuad Shareef (Queen Mary) "Wedderburn's Theorem and Projective Geometry"
Wednesday 9 July 2014, outing to LMS Popular Lectures
Wednesday 2 July 2014, Tony Forbes (Open) "Wilson's Theorem in design theory I"
Wednesday 25 June 2014, Robin Whitty (Queen Mary) "Wedderburn's Theorem on Division Rings" (see Theorem of the Day no. 215, and these notes)
Wednesday 18 June 2014, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU) "Combinatorial approaches in chemical reaction network theory"
Wednesday 11 June 2014, no meeting
Friday 6 June 2014, outing to inaugural lecture of Sarah Hart "The Art of Group Theory and the Group Theory of Art"
Wednesday 4 June 2014, we entertained our external speaker Tony Forbes (Open) with a 45-minute closed session of MSG in Lift 16 of the London Road Building
Thursday 29 May 2014, outing to inaugural lecture of Prof. Reimer Kühn at Kings College: "Random walks in complex networks"
Wednesday, 21 May, outing to hear "The Secret Mathematicians" by Marcus du Sautoy
Thursday, 15 May, outing to Greenwich Maths Talent 2014, University of Greenwhich
Wednesday 14 May 2014, outing to Queen Mary for joint QM/LSE combinatorics colloquia
Wednesday 7 May 2014, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU) "Minors for alternating dimaps, part 5" (continuing our study of this preprint by Graham Farr)
Wednesday 30 April 2014, Robin Whitty (Queen Mary) "Linear recurrences and a 'faintly outrageous' open problem" (based on this blog post by Terry Tao and these notes by Ernie Croot)
Wednesday 23rd April 2014, no meeting
Wednesday 16 April 2014, outing to joint meeting of the societies London Mathematical and Royal Meteorological, Imperial College.
Tuesday 8 April 2014, outing to LMS meeting at BMC, Queen Mary: Claire Voisin, "Points, zero cycles, and rationality questions".
Monday 7 April 2014, outing to Public Lecture at BMC, Queen Mary: Persi Diaconis, "The Magic of Martin Gardner"
Wednesday 2 April 2014, no meeting
Wednesday 26 March 2014, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "Minors for alternating dimaps, part 4"
Wednesday 19 March 2014, outing to London Number Theory seminar to hear Peter Sarnak, title TBA
Tuesday 18 March 2014, Outing to "Number Theory and the Circle Packings of Apollonius" by Peter Sarnak, at Kings College
Wednesday 12 March 2014, Tony Forbes (Open University) "Constructions of designs"
Wednesday 5 March 2014, outing to UCL for the inaugural lecture of Professor Michael Singer: ‘The aesthetics of shape’
Wednesday 26 February 2014, Annual New Year Lecture, Misha Rudnev (University of Bristol), "The Szémeredi–Trotter Theorem and some Applications in Geometric/Arithmetic Combinatorics"
Wednesday 19 February 2014, Tony Forbes (Open University) "Wilson's theorems on 2-designs"
Wednesday 12 February 2014, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "Minors for alternating dimaps, part 3"
Wednesday 5 February 2014, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "Minors for alternating dimaps, part 2" (continuing our study of this preprint by Graham Farr)
Wednesday 29 January 2014, outing to Open University Winter combinatorics meeting
Wednesday 22nd January 2014, outing to QMUL Centre for Discrete Mathematics seminar: Brett Stevens (Chicago) "Combinatorial objects in reliability testing"
Wednesday 15th January 2014, Tony Forbes (Open University), Acyclic orientations and poly-Bernoulli numbers (based on this talk by Peter Cameron and Robert Schumacher)
Wednesday 8th January 2014, Jon Selig, Riemannian manifolds II
Wednesday 11th December, Jon Selig, Riemannian manifolds I
Wednesday 4th December, Aylin Cakiroglu, Queen Mary, Optimal Designs in Large Systems
Wednesday 27th November, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "Minors for alternating dimaps" (based on this preprint by Graham Farr)
Wednesday 20th November, Carrie Rutherford, LSBU, "Variants of pancyclicity"
Friday 15th November, outing to LMS AGM, including Graeme Segal's presidential address "Space and spaces"
Wednesday 6th November, Robin Whitty, Queen Mary, "Lattice-based Cryptography" (based on this presentation by Phong Nguyen and this by Daniele Micciancio)
Wednesday 30th October, Old Codgers combinatorics meeting at Reading (at least 2 of the talks are worth recommending to undergraduates)
Wednesday 23rd October, Michelle Kendall, Royal Holloway, "Expander graphs II"
Wednesday 16th October, Michelle Kendall, Royal Holloway, "Expander graphs" (see Hoory et al for more)
Thursday 10th October, Book launch: Combinatorics: Ancient & Modern edited by Robin Wilson and John J. Watkins, at Gresham College
Wednesday 9th October, Tony Forbes, Open University, "Rational points on elliptic curves"
Wednesday 2nd October, Fuad Shareef, Queen Mary), The Covering Radius in Coding Theory
Wednesday 25th September, Robin Whitty, Queen Mary, "Matchings, covers and the union-closed sets conjecture" (linking to Fatima Affif Chaouche's talk on 18th, by way of material given here and here)
Wednesday 18th September, Fatima Affif Chaouche, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, "The union-closed sets conjecture in graph theory" (based on this paper)
Wednesday 11th September, Robin Whitty, Queen Mary, "The Riemann Hypothesis" (preparation for a Rewley House day school)
Wednesday 4th September, Carrie Rutherford, "Some results on the structure and spectra of matrix products"

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