What's On at UWA

Mark Ioppolo (UWA)

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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 (...)

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 (...)

Groups and Combinatorics Seminar

Joanna Fawcett (UWA)

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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 (...)

Daniel Hawtin (UWA)

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Designs and Elusive Codes in Hamming Graphs

at 3pm Friday August the 22nd in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

We consider a code to be a subset of the vertices of a Hamming graph. The set of s-neighbours (...)

Tomasz Popiel (UWA)

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Point-primitive generalised polygons

at 3pm Friday 29 August in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

This talk will be about some on-going joint work with John Bamberg, Stephen Glasby, Cheryl Praeger and (...)

Norman Do (Monash University)

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Counting surfaces: ribbon graphs, branched covers, and more

at 3pm Friday 5 September in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

The enumeration of ribbon graphs (graphs embedded in surfaces) (...)

Stephen Glasby (UWA)

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Generalized quadrangles and AS-configurations of finite p-groups

at 3pm Friday 12 September in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

This is joint work with John Bamberg and Eric Swartz at UWA. One method (...)

Jin-Xin Zhou (Beijing Jiaotong University)

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Finite 2-set-homogeneous graphs

at 3pm Friday 19 September in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

Let k be a positive integer. A finite graph G is said to be k-set-homogeneous if for (...)

John Bamberg (UWA)

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A geometric proof of Wedderburn's Theorem

at 3pm Friday 26 September in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

J. H. Maclagan-Wedderburn (1905) exploited the interplay between a finite division ring and its (...)

There will be refreshments before the seminar, at 2:40pm in the common room.

Cheryl Praeger (UWA)

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Simple group factorisations and applications

at 3pm Friday 3 October in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

Factori (...)

A public lecture by Terry Speed, Professor of Bioinformatics, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

Scientists have now mapped the human genome - the next frontier is understanding human epigenomes; the ‘instructions’ which tell the DNA whether to make skin cells or (...)

Gabriel Verret (UWA)

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Vertex-transitive graphs with large automorphism groups: a potpourri

at 3pm Friday 10 October in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

I would like to understand connected vertex-transitive graphs which (...)

Martin Liebeck (Imperial College)

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Magic words

at 3pm Friday 17 October in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

A word map on a group G is a map sending (g_1,...,g_k) to w(g_1,...,g_k), where w is a fixed word in k variables (...)

Guang Rao (UWA)

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Self-complementary vertex-transitive graphs

at 3pm Friday 24 October in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.

Abstract:

A graph is self-complementary if the graph and its complement are isomorphic. In this talk I will (...)

Michael Giudici (UWA)

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Commuting graphs

at 3pm Friday 7 November in Mathematics Lecture Room 1.

Abstract:

Given a group G, the commuting graph of G is the graph with vertices the noncentral elements of G, and two vertices are (...)

Eric Swartz (UWA)

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Antiflag-transitive generalized quadrangles

at 3pm Friday 14 November in Mathematics Lecture Room 1.

Abstract:

A generalized quadrangle is a point-line incidence geometry Q such that (1) any two points lie on at (...)

Alice Devillers (UWA)

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Tits' buildings as combinatorial objects

at 3pm Friday 28 November in Mathematics Lecture Room 1.

Abstract:

Buildings were invented in the 1960s by the Belgian-French mathematician Jacques Tits. They are a (...)

Alice Niemeyer (UWA)

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Symmetric p-groups

at 11am in Weatherburn LT

(The time will be finalised on Wed evening. There may be the need for a change of time to 1:30pm.)

Abstract: In 1978 R.M. Bryant and L.G. Kov acs showed that for (...)

Time and place: 3pm Friday 16 January in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Irene Pivotto (UWA)

Title: Growth rates of binary matroids.

Abstract: The growth rate of a class of matroids is a function of the rank which expresses how large a matroid in the class can be. For (...)

Time and place: 3pm Friday 23 January in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Colva Roney-Dougal (University of St Andrews)

Title: Generation of finite groups.

Abstract: There is a beautiful result, due to Liebeck, Shalev, and others, that the probability that two random elements (...)