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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 currently hybrid in-person/videoconference events. Contact Carrie to get attendance/access details.
Forthcoming talks/events
- Thursday 30th March, Tony Forbes (LSBU), "A property of graphs II"
- Thursday 6th April, tba
- Thursday 13th April, tba
Previous talks/events (talks from previous years archived here)
- 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
Archive
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Some speaker notes (generally pdf < 1MB unless stated, open in new window) |
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: Ovals, 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, Integer Factorization, Elliptic curves, factorization and primality testing, Applications of Weil's Theorem on Character Sums |
Graham Lovegrove (Open): The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem: proofs from the Book, The slope problem, Tiling Rectangles: 3 Proofs from the BOOK, Young tableaux and the hook formula, The probabilistic method (1.5MB) |
Gary Michalek, (La Salle): Writing Numbers in Base N (Number Systems and Just Touching Covering Systems) |
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 |
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 |
Robin Whitty: Euler tours and sets of permutations, Pascal's triangle, Pascal's triangle minus 1, Congruent numbers (in tribute to Jerrold Tunnell), The polygonal number theorem, Bisecting a triangle in a given direction, Finding a continued fraction for Tau, Graceful trees and graphs |
Taoyang Wu (East Anglia): Expanders: Background, Expanders: Zig-zag product, Applications of Sperner's Lemma, Graph Homomorphisms: a language |
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Comments or queries about the Maths Study Group
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