Maths Study Group

Archive of Talks/Visits 2022–2023

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Friday 29th September, Tony Forbes (LSBU), "6-regular graphs with 12 vertices"
Thursday 21st September, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "Probability of coprime polynomials" based on this theorem of the day.
Thursday 14th September, Robin Whitty, "Polygons and a hash function II" (slides)
Friday 8th September, Tony Forbes (LSBU) "Packing 1:1:4 bricks into cubes" (some notes from M500)
Thursday 31st August, Tony Forbes (LSBU), "Packing bricks into cubes"
Thursday 24th August, Robin Whitty, "Polygons and a hash function" (slides)

Friday 4th August, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "Aperiodic monotiles"

	Background: aperiodic monotile	We watched: chiral aperiodic monotile
more accessible, a bit silly BUT raised questions for discussion	A New Tile in Newtyle - Numberphile - YouTube	Finally, a true Aperiodic Monotile! - YouTube
more in-depth and answered most of them!	Aperiodic Monotile - Mad as a Hat - YouTube	Chiral Aperiodic Monotile - Spectre in the Machine - YouTube (this page also has links to the paper on ArXiv and - separately - to a proof that nested hierarchies are not periodic)

Friday 28th July, Graham Lovegrove (Open), "A conjecture of Erdős on angles in d-dimensional space"
Friday 21st July, Tony Forbes (LSBU), "Pythagoras’ Theorem revisited" (extracts of related M500 articles)
Friday 7th July, Tony Forbes (LSBU) "A different type of graph design"
Friday 30th June, LMS AGM and Hardy Lecture
Tuesday 13th June, Gresham College/online lecture, Robin Wilson, "Connecting the Dots: Milestones in Graph Theory"
Thursday 8th June, Robin Whitty, "The Star of David theorem" (slides)
Thursday 1st June, Jon Selig (LSBU), "Screw systems and their classification" (slides)
Friday 26th May, Tony Forbes (LSBU), "Partitions"
Thursday 11th May, Graham Lovegrove (Open), tba (slides)
Thursday 27th April, Robin Whitty, Binomial coefficients (slides)
Thursday 13th April, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), "A new proof of Pythagoras' Theorem"
Thursday 30th March, Tony Forbes (LSBU), "A property of graphs II"
Wednesday 22nd March, outing to IMA-LMS Christopher Zeeman Lecture and Medal Presentation, Royal Society
Thursday 9th March, Graham Lovegrove (Open), "A nifty theorem about determinants II"
Thursday 2nd March, Tony Forbes (LSBU), "A property of graphs"
Friday 17th Febrary, Graham Lovegrove (Open), "A nifty theorem about determinants"
Thursday 9th February 2023, Robin Whitty, "Euler tours and sets of permutations" slides (800KB, pdf)
Thursday 2nd February 2023, Tony Forbes presented a puzzle concerning snub polyhedra
Thursday 22nd December, Robin Whitty, "Pascal's triangle minus 1" slides
Friday 16th December, Graham Lovegrove (Open), "The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem: proofs from the Book" slides
Thursday 8th December, Carrie set us some homework viewing: this video about the connections between jigsaw puzzles and bell ringing … via group theory
Wednesday 23th November, outing to IMA Presidential Address "A Mathematical Eye", by Professor Paul Glendinning
Friday 18th November, outing/online to LMS AGM and Naylor lecture
Thursday 10th November, Carrie Rutherford(LSBU), "Colouring matroid reductions" (based on this Matroid Union blog post)
Thursday 3rd November, Graham Lovegrove (Open), "The slope problem" slides, and some papers: Ungar's proof; the 3D version; matroids.
Friday 28th October, Tony Forbes and Carrie Rutherford(LSBU), "Pentagonal geometries and identifying codes"
Wednesday 19th October, Outing/Online: The Annual BSHM Gresham College Lectures "Ideas About Proof in Mathematics"
Tuesday 11th October, Outing to Gresham College/Online lecture "The Maths of Coins and Currencies" by Sarah Hart
Thursday 6th October, Robin Whitty, "Pascal's triangle" slides

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