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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.
NEXT MEETING: Thursday 3rd December, Tony Forbes, "Pentagonal geometries"
MSG meetings are taking place by videoconference until further notice. Contact Carrie to get access details.
Forthcoming talks/events
- Thursday 10th December, Carrie Rutherford (LSBU), Turán Bipartition Approximations
- Thursday 17th December, Robin Whitty, Triangle bisection algorithms
- Thursday 22nd December, Tycho Brahe, Astronomy
- Thursday 29th December, Tropical Braid Algebras
- Thursday 7th January 2021, True Biquadratic Amplification
- Thursday 14th January, Thomas Bayes, Algorithmics
- Thursday 21st January, Triply-Bonded Anabelians
Previous talks/events (talks from previous years archived here)
- 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 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: 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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Comments or queries about the Maths Study Group
or this page: Carrie Rutherford