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Archive of Talks/Visits 2015–2016

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Wednesday 21 September 2016, no meeting
Wednesday 14 September 2016, outing to Royal Statistical Society meeting: "Has the public really had enough of experts?"
Wednesday 7 September 2016, no meeting
Tuesday 23 August 2016, Robin Whitty (QMUL), Bézout's Theorem (based on this by Stephanie Fitchett and this by Andries Brouwer)
Wednesday 17 August 2016, Tony Forbes (Open University) "Graph Designs"
Wednesday 10 August, no meeting
Wednesday 3 August 2016, Jon Selig, "A Very Basic Introduction to Persistient Homology"
Wednesday 27 July 2016, Piers Myers (LSBU), "Nets and beaches"
Wednesday 20 July, no meeting
Wednesday 13 July 2016, Tony Forbes (Open) "The towers of Hanoi"
Friday 8 July 2016, outing to UCL for LMS AGM + Hardy Lecture
Wednesday 29 June 2016, outing to LMS Popular Lectures, 1900, Inst. of Education
Wednesday 22 June 2016, Tony Forbes (Open) "The Bernoulli numbers III"
Wednesday 15 June 2016, Tony Forbes (Open) "The triangle/trapezium dissection problem"
Wednesday 1 June 2016, outing to Oxford for combinatorics meeting
Tuesday 24 May 2016, outing to LMS/Gresham lecture "Mathematics, measurement and money" by Norman Biggs
Wednesday 18 May 2016, Piers Myers (LSBU), "Folding Jewellery"
Wednesday 11 May 2016, outing to QMUL for Combinatorics Colloquium
Wednesday 4 May 2016, outing to LSE hear "P-value likelihood ratios for evidence evaluation in forensic statistics" by James Abdey
Wednesday 27 April 2016, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU) "Dissections of equilateral triangles"
Wednesday 20 April 2016, 2016 New Year Lecture: Volkert van der Wijk (King's College London), "Design of inherently dynamically balanced mechanisms and the study of the motion of masses with principal vectors" abstract
Wednesday 13th April 2016, Nigel Phillips (LSBU) "Computability by Probablistic Machines - take two" (his slides)
Wednesday 6 April 2016, no meeting
Wednesday 30 March 2016, no meeting
Wednesday 23 March 2016, no meeting
Wednesday 16 March 2016, Tony Forbes (Open) "Graph Designs"
Wednesday 9 March 2016, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU) "Latin Bitrades"
Wednesday 2 March 2016, Nigel Phillips (LSBU) "Relativity"
Wednesday 24 February, outing to Imperial College to hear "Natural ventilation, eruption columns and fires: Modelling steady and unsteady turbulent plumes" by John Craske
Wednesday 17 February, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU) "Delta-matroids and delta-matroid polynomials, Part II"
Wednesday 10 February, Ken Lord, "Special functions"
Wednesday 3 February 2016, Tony Forbes (Open) "Graph designs"
Wednesday 27 January 2016, No meeting
Wednesday 20 January 2016, outing to OU Winter Combinatorics Meeting
Wednesday 13 January 2016, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU) "Knapsacks, Markov chains and random portfolio optimization, Part II"
Wednesday 6 January, 2016, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU) "Knapsacks, Markov chains and random portfolio optimization"
Wednesday 16 December, 2015, Tony Forbes (Open) "Graph designs"
Wednesday 9 December, 2015, no meeting
Wednesday 2 December, 2015, Nigel Phillips (LSBU) "Computability of probabilistic machines"
Wednesday, 25 November, Koko Kayibi (Qatar University) "The Knapsack problem"
Friday 13 November, 2015, outing to LMS AGM
Wednesday 18 November, 2015, Tony Forbes (Open) "Snarks" (based on this paper)
Wednesday 11 November, 2015, outing to Birkbeck to hear Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia), “Local transitivity properties of graphs and pairwise transitive designs” (her slides)
Tuesday 3rd November 2015, Tony Forbes (Open) "The Bernoulli Numbers II" (his notes) + outing to LMS for "The Mathematics of Program Construction" by Roland Backhouse
Wednesday 28 October, 2015, Tony Forbes (Open) "The Bernoulli Numbers I"
Wednesday 21 October, 2015, Fatima Affif Chaouche, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, "Pancyclicity and Hamiltonicity"
Wednesday 14 October, 2015, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU) "Delta-matroids and delta-matroid polynomials"
Wednesday 7 October, 2015, outing to Queen Mary for "Maths Magic" by Matt Parker

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