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Archive of Talks/Visits 2020–2021
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- Wednesday 29th September, Robin Whitty, "Les nombres parfaits"
- Tuesday 14th September, Tony Forbes, Regular graphs with girth 4
- Tuesday 7th September, Tony Forbes, "Triangles with Bisected-integral Area"
- Thursday 2nd September, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "The q-analogue of a matroid, Part 2"
- Thursday 12th August, Graham Lovegrove (Open), "The three-gaps theorem"
- Thursday 5th August, Robin Whitty, "Trapezoidal bisection achieved"
- Thursday 29th July, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "The q-analogue of a matroid"
(based on this blog entry)
- Thursday 22nd July, Tony Forbes, "Hyperovals, continued"
- Thursday 15th July, Tony Forbes, "Hyperovals"
- Thursday 8th July, British Combinatorial Conference
- Thursday 1st July, Graham Lovegrove (Open), Triple Bicolouring Algorithms
- Thursday 24th June, LMS Popular Lectures
- Thursday 17th June, Tony Forbes, Ovals (his notes)
- Wednesday 16th June, The Azat Miftakhov Day
- Friday 11th June, Robin Whitty, "Threading Beads: Addendum" (slides 600KB pdf)
- Thursday 3rd June, Tony Forbes, Ovals (his notes)
- Thursday 27th May, Nigel Heys, "Dating archeological finds" (based on this and this)
- Thursday 20th May, Graham Lovegrove (Open), “Hamiltonian cycles: Ore’s theorem and Kelly’s conjecture”
- Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th May, LSE/QMUL Colloquia in Combinatorics
- Thursday 6th May, Robin Whitty, "The polygonal number theorem" (slides 550KB pdf)
- Monday 26th April, Jon Selig, "The Petersen–Morley Theorem" (accompanying materials)
- Thursday 22nd April, Tony Forbes, "Pentagonal geometries"
- Tuesday 13th April, Graham Lovegrove (Open), "Asymptotic packings via a branching process" (based on this paper by Joel Spencer, 120KB pdf)
- Tuesday 6th April, Nigel Heys, The Radon transform (based on a presentation by Swanhild Bernstein, 3.7MB pdf download)
- Thursday 1st April, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "Tomfoolery on the Bells App"
- Friday 26th March, Tony Forbes, "Projective planes"
- Thursday 18th March, Robin Whitty, "Trapezoidal bisection approached"
- Thursday 11th March, Graham Lovegrove (Open), "Martingales"
- Thursday 4th March, Nigel Heys, "Principal component analysis" (based on lecture notes by Jonathan Gillard, no. 10 on the list of references here)
- Thursday 25th February, Tony Forbes, "Projective planes"
- Thursday 18th February, Robin Whitty, "Ces matheux grecs, comment n'ont-ils pas vu ça ?"
- Thursday 11th February, Tony Forbes, "The combinatorial proof of the Friendship Theorem"
- Thursday 4th February, Tony Forbes, "Projective planes of order 9"
- Thursday 28th January, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU) , "Short rainbow cycles in graphs and matroids - the finale"
- Thursday 21st January, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "Short rainbow cycles in graphs and matroids" Part II, see this survey paper
- Thursday 14th January, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "Short rainbow cycles in graphs and matroids", based on this Matroid Union blog entry
- Thursday 7th January 2021, Graham Lovegrove (Open), The Heilbronn triangle problem
- Tuesday 5th January 2021, Professor Sarah Hart (Gresham/Birkbeck), The Mathematics of Bell Ringing
- Tuesday 29th December, Bell ringing session, led by Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), using the ringingroom application
- Tuesday 22nd December, Tony Forbes, "Pentagonal geometries"
- Wednesday 16th December, Robin Whitty, "Triangle bisection algorithms", described here
- Thursday 10th December, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "The mathematics of Bellringing and some Algorithms" (with recourse to www.RingingRoom.com)
- Thursday 3rd November, Tony Forbes, "Pentagonal geometries"
- Thursday 26th November, Graham Lovegrove (Open), "The Cauchy–Davenport Theorem"
- Thursday 19th November, Robin Whitty, "Kurt Gödel : les théorèmes qui ont brisé les maths"
- Friday 13th November, Nigel Heys, "Lagrange points"
- Thursday 5th November, Graham Lovegrove (Open), "Sumsets"
- Thursday 29th October, Tony Forbes, "Small graphs with girth 5" (some notes)
- Thursday 22nd October, Robin Whitty, "The Intermediate Value Theorem"
- Friday 16th October, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "Matroids"
- Thursday 8th October, Tony Forbes, "Small regular graphs of girth five"
- Thursday 1st October, Robin Whitty, "Triangle bisection by area"
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