|
Displaying from Friday, January 31, 2014
|
January 2014
|
Friday 31 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Groups and first-order logic
|
More Information
|
André Nies (University of Auckland)
will speak on
Groups and first-order logic
at 3pm Friday January the 31st in Blakers Lecture Theatre.
Abstract :
We study the expressive power of first-order logic for groups. A finitely generated (...)
|
|
February 2014
|
Friday 07 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Row echelon matrices, flags and Grassmannians
|
More Information
|
Phill Schultz (UWA)
will speak on
Row echelon matrices, flags and Grassmannians
at 3pm Friday February the 7th in Blakers Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
There is a well trodden path from finite dimensional vector spaces to algebraic geometry (...)
|
Friday 21 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Metrically homogeneous graphs
|
More Information
|
Dugald MacPherson (University of Leeds)
will speak on
Metrically homogeneous graphs
at 3pm Friday February the 21st in Blakers Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
A `homogeneous structure' is a countably infinite relational structure M (e.g. graph (...)
|
Friday 28 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Subgroup covering numbers of symmetric groups
|
More Information
|
Eric Swartz (UWA)
will speak on
Subgroup covering numbers of symmetric groups
at 3pm Friday February the 28th in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
Let G be a group. The subgroup covering number of G is defined to be the least integer m (...)
|
|
March 2014
|
Friday 07 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Factorizations of almost simple groups with a soluble factor
|
More Information
|
Binzhou Xia (Peking University)
will speak on
Factorizations of almost simple groups with a soluble factor
at 3pm Friday March the 7th in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
Factorizations of almost simple groups arise in many contexts. I (...)
|
Friday 14 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, The brilliant career of Fr�d�ric Vanhove
|
More Information
|
John Bamberg (UWA)
will speak on
The brilliant career of Frédéric Vanhove
at 3pm Friday March the 14th in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
|
Friday 21 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Have we ever tried to count Cayley graphs?
|
More Information
|
Pablo Spiga (Universita' di Milano-Bicocca)
will speak on
Have we ever tried to count Cayley graphs?
at 3pm Friday March the 21st in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
In this talk we give some elementary upper bounds on the number of (...)
|
Friday 28 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Primitive groups, diophantine equations, and functional equations
|
More Information
|
Michael Zieve (University of Michigan)
will speak on
Primitive groups, diophantine equations, and functional equations
at 3pm Friday March the 28th in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
I will explain how results about primitive groups (...)
|
|
April 2014
|
Friday 04 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Edge transitive dessins d'enfant
|
More Information
|
Cai-Heng Li (UWA)
will speak on
Edge transitive dessins d'enfant
at 3pm Friday April the 4th in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
A 2-cell embedding of a bipartite graph in an orientable surface is called a dessin d'enfant. Thus a dessin (...)
|
Friday 11 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Graphs are to matroids what ribbon graphs are to ...?
|
More Information
|
Steven Noble (Brunel University)
will speak on
Graphs are to matroids what ribbon graphs are to ...?
at 3pm Friday April the 11th in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
Much of the combinatorial structure of an abstract connected graph is (...)
|
|
May 2014
|
Friday 02 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Some recent results on elusive groups
|
More Information
|
Michael Giudici (UWA)
will speak on
Some recent results on elusive groups
at 3pm Friday May the 2nd in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
Every transitive permutation group has a derangement of prime power order but not necessarily a (...)
|
Friday 09 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Locally-transitive graphs and their vertex stabilisers
|
More Information
|
Luke Morgan (UWA)
will speak on
Locally-transitive graphs and their vertex stabilisers
at 3pm Friday May the 9th in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
Let D be a graph with a group of automorphisms G and suppose that D is G-locally-arc-tra (...)
|
Friday 16 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Classic problems of packing in 2d, 3d and on a cylinder
|
More Information
|
Denis Weaire
Gledden Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, UWA
and
School of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
will speak on
Classic problems of packing in 2d, 3d and on a cylinder
at 3pm Friday May the 16th in (...)
|
Friday 23 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Chromatic roots of graphs and matroids
|
More Information
|
Gordon Royle (UWA)
will speak on
Chromatic roots of graphs and matroids
at 3pm Friday May the 23rd in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
The location of the real and/or complex roots of the chromatic polynomial of a graph has been studied (...)
|
Friday 30 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Taking products of permutation groups
|
More Information
|
Simon Smith (UWA)
will speak on
Taking products of permutation groups
at 3pm Friday May the 30th in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
At the AustMS conference, I introduced a new product for permutation groups. At the time, I was in a (...)
|
|
June 2014
|
Thursday 05 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Computing Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials and some Applications
|
More Information
|
Frank Lübeck (RWTH Aachen)
will speak on
Computing Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials and some Applications
at 3pm Thursday June the 5th in Maths Lecture Room 2.
Abstract:
My interest in Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials comes from a certain character (...)
|
|
August 2014
|
Friday 01 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Quasi-isometry and commensurability for right-angled Coxeter groups
|
More Information
|
Anne Thomas (University of Glasgow)
will speak on
Quasi-isometry and commensurability for right-angled Coxeter groups
at 3pm Friday 1 August in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre
Abstract:
Let Gamma be a finite simple graph with vertex set S. The associated (...)
|
Friday 08 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Codes from quadrics in symplectic space
|
More Information
|
Mark Ioppolo (UWA)
will speak on
Codes from quadrics in symplectic space
at 3pm 8 August in Weatherburn LT
Abstract: Whether combinatorial or group theoretic, symmetry plays an important role in the construction and analysis of error correcting codes in (...)
|
Sunday 10 |
10:00 - OPEN DAY - 2014 Open Day : Join us for our Open Day and experience all that UWA has to offer
|
Website |
More Information
|
Come and find out about UWA’s undergraduate and postgraduate courses, scholarship opportunities, outstanding career options and explore our community programs and facilities.
This year there will be campus tram tours, hands-on activities, live music and entertainment, as well as plenty (...)
|
Friday 15 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Locally triangular graphs and rectagraphs with symmetry
|
More Information
|
Groups and Combinatorics Seminar
Joanna Fawcett (UWA)
will speak on
Locally triangular graphs and rectagraphs with symmetry
at 3pm on Friday 15 of August in Weatherburn LT
Abstract: Locally triangular graphs are known to be halved graphs of (...)
|
|
There are
195 more future events
in this calendar
Alternative formats:
XML |
Printer Friendly
|
|
|