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September 2013
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Friday 06 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Connections between Graph Theory & Combinatorics on Words
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A string or word is usually thought of as a sequence of letters drawn from some alphabet. Applications to bioinformatics and other areas suggest the utility of defining strings on subsets of the alphabet instead -- so-called "indeterminate" strings. I describe (...)
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Friday 13 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, On The Non-commuting Graph
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In this talk, we will consider the non-commuting graph of a non-abelian finite group G; its vertex set is the set of non-central elements of G, and two distinct vertices x and y are joined by an edge if they do not commute together. Actually, we study some properties of the (...)
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Friday 20 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Generalised quadrangles constructed from groups
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This is just a survey talk of various ways to construct all of the known finite generalised quadrangles starting with a group and a configuration of subgroups of that group. In particular, the speaker will give a summary of where one of the "retreat" problems is at.
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Wednesday 25 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics Colloquium: The Cohen-Lenstra heuristics: from arithmetic to topology and back again
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Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford) Mahler Lecturer and IAS Professor-at-Large
will speak on
The Cohen-Lenstra heuristics: from arithmetic to topology and back again.
at 11am in the Science Library Access Grid room.
I will discuss some models of (...)
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Friday 27 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Straight-line programs with memory and applications to computational group theory
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Straight-line programs offer a method for encoding group computations in a "black box" sense, namely without using specifics of the group's representation or how the group operations are performed. We advocate that straight-line programs designed for group (...)
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October 2013
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Friday 11 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Multiply tiling Euclidean space by translating a convex object
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We study the problem of covering Euclidean space R^d by possibly overlapping translates of a convex body P, such that almost every point is covered exactly k times, for a fixed integer k. Such a covering of Euclidean space by translations is called a k-tiling. We will first (...)
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Friday 18 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Regular orbits of Sym(n) and Alt(n) on irreducible representations
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Given a finite group G and a faithful irreducible FG-module V where F is a field of prime order, we can ask whether G has a regular orbit on the vectors of V. This problem is related to determining which primitive permutation groups of affine type have a base of size 2, as well (...)
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Friday 25 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Coprime actions of finite linear groups
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Let H be a finite linear group acting completely reducibly on a finite vector space V. Gabriel Navarro asked: if the H-orbits containing vectors a and b have coprime lengths m and n, is there an H-orbit of length mn?
We answered, by showing that the H-orbit containing a + b (...)
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November 2013
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Friday 01 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Algebraic geometry codes
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Codes arising from algebraic geometry, first introduced by Goppa, gained attention when Tsfasman–Vladut–Zink used them to improve the Gilbert-Varshamow bound. We will give a gentle introduction to some of the beautiful ideas from algebraic geometry used to build these (...)
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Friday 15 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, A miscellany of topics related to semiregular graph automorphisms
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I will discuss a few things, all related to semiregular graph automorphisms : the polycirculant conjecture, the abelian normal quotient method, an interesting class of graphs...
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Monday 18 |
In 1950’s Fermi, motivated by fundamental questions of statistical mechanics, started a numerical experiment in collaboration with Pasta and Ulam to test the ergodic properties of nonlinear dynamical systems. The chosen so-called FPU system was a one dimensional chain of N nonlinear coupled (...)
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Friday 22 |
Self-avoiding walks (SAWs) are widely studied as a problem in algebraic combinatorics by mathematicians, as a problem in algorithm design by computer scientists, as a model of phase transitions by mathematical physicists and as a model of polymers in dilute solution by chemists.
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December 2013
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Monday 09 |
9:00 - CONFERENCE - Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing : Held at UWA from the 9th to 13th of December
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This year's Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing will be held here at UWA from the 9th to 13th of December. Put the date in your diary now and start looking for cheap flights to Perth.
Visit the conference webpage to find the exciting lineup of invited (...)
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January 2014
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Friday 10 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Analysis and Implementation: the Two 'Editions' of a Matrix Group Algorithm
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Brian Corr (UWA)
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Analysis and Implementation: the Two 'Editions' of a Matrix Group Algorithm
at 3pm Friday January the 10th in Blakers Lecture Theatre.
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The quality of an algorithm in computational mathematics is (...)
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Friday 17 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Graphs and transitivity on 2-geodesics
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Alice Devillers (UWA)
will speak on
Graphs and transitivity on 2-geodesics
at 3pm Friday January the 17th in Blakers Lecture Theatre.
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Joint work with Wei Jin, Cai Heng Li, Cheryl Praeger, Akos Seress.
An s-geodesic in (...)
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Friday 24 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - CMSC Technical Seminar, An introduction to IPE
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Irene Pivotto (UWA)
will speak on
An introduction to IPE
at 3pm Friday January the 24th in Blakers Lecture Theatre.
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IPE is a drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS format, which can then be inserted into LaTeX documents (...)
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Friday 31 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Groups and first-order logic
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André Nies (University of Auckland)
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Groups and first-order logic
at 3pm Friday January the 31st in Blakers Lecture Theatre.
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We study the expressive power of first-order logic for groups. A finitely generated (...)
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February 2014
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Friday 07 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Row echelon matrices, flags and Grassmannians
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Phill Schultz (UWA)
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Row echelon matrices, flags and Grassmannians
at 3pm Friday February the 7th in Blakers Lecture Theatre.
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There is a well trodden path from finite dimensional vector spaces to algebraic geometry (...)
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Friday 21 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Metrically homogeneous graphs
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Dugald MacPherson (University of Leeds)
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Metrically homogeneous graphs
at 3pm Friday February the 21st in Blakers Lecture Theatre.
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A `homogeneous structure' is a countably infinite relational structure M (e.g. graph (...)
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Friday 28 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Subgroup covering numbers of symmetric groups
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Eric Swartz (UWA)
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Subgroup covering numbers of symmetric groups
at 3pm Friday February the 28th in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
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Let G be a group. The subgroup covering number of G is defined to be the least integer m (...)
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