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The Maths Study Group is an initiative of the
former department of Maths, Stats and Foundation Studies, aimed at providing a
forum for mathematically-minded people, within the Faculty and elsewhere, to meet
and share ideas.
Each week somebody gives an expository talk
with the aim of increasing everybody's mathematical general knowledge.
Talks currently take place at approx. 1630 and are preceded by tea. Location details are emailed nearer the time: let Carrie Rutherford know if you would like to be added to the mailing list.
MSG meetings are taking place by videoconference until further notice. Contact Carrie to get access details.
NEXT MEETING: Thursday 17th June, Tony Forbes, Ovals
Plus: Wednesday 16th June, The Azat Miftakhov Day, at 3pm (UK time), videoconference details on website a few days before the event
Forthcoming talks/events
- Thursday 24th June, LMS Popular Lectures, on Zoom from 1800
- Thursday 1st July, Twofold Binary Ambimodality
- Thursday 8th July, Triply-Bonded Anabelians
- Thursday 15th July, Thomas Bradwardine, Acceleration
- Thursday 22nd July, Threshold Binomial Asymmetry
- Thursday 29th July, Tycho Brahe's Astrolabe
- Thursday 4th August, True Biquadratic Amplification
Previous talks/events (talks from previous years archived here)
- Friday 11th June, Robin Whitty, "Threading Beads: Addendum"
- Thursday 3rd June, Tony Forbes, Ovals
- 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"
Archive
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| Some speaker notes (generally pdf <0.5MB unless stated, open in new window) |
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Peter Cameron (St Andrews and Queen Mary): Hadamard matrices
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Graham Farr (Monash): Minors for alternating dimaps, Transforms, minors and generalised Tutte polynomials
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Tony Forbes: Small regular graphs of girth 5, Bernoulli Polynomials (updated 4.11.15), Poncelet's Porism and Elliptic Curves (1.3MB),
The Towers of Hanoi, Regular Polytopes, Decision problems for linear recurrence sequences (updated 27.10.15), The Bruck–Ryser Theorem, Wilson's Theorem in design theory, Primality without recourse to arithmetic, The Hardy–Littlewood Circle Method, Congruence properties of the partition function (0.6MB), Integer Factorization, Elliptic curves, factorization and primality testing, Applications of Weil's Theorem on Character Sums |
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Graham Lovegrove (Open): The probabilistic method (1.5MB) |
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Gary Michalek, (La Salle): Writing Numbers in Base N (Number Systems and Just Touching Covering Systems) |
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Michael Olorunsaiye, (Covenant University, Nigeria): Generalities about partial C*-algebras
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Nigel Phillips (LSBU): Algorithmic Probability, Computability and Probabilistic Machines, On playing several games at once |
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Francesca Merola (Roma Tre University): On Hamiltonian cycle systems with a nice automorphism group
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Jon Selig (LSBU): The Petersen–Morley Theorem, The catalecticant, Gröbner Bases Part I: Varieties and Ideals, Gröbner Bases Part II: Monomial Orders and the Division Algorithm, Gröbner Bases Part III: Gröbner bases and monomial ideals, Gröbner Bases IV: Buchberger's Algorithm, Clifford algebras and computational algebra, Molien's theorem in invariant theory, Representations of GL(n), Hopf algebras, Chicks, eggs and advertising |
| Leonard Soicher (QMUL):
A new upper bound on the clique number of a strongly regular graph |
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Robin Whitty: Bisecting a triangle in a given direction, Finding a continued fraction for Tau, Graceful trees and graphs
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Taoyang Wu (East Anglia): Expanders: Background, Expanders: Zig-zag product, Applications of Sperner's Lemma, Graph Homomorphisms: a language |
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