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August 2014
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Sunday 10 |
10:00 - OPEN DAY - 2014 Open Day : Join us for our Open Day and experience all that UWA has to offer
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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 (...)
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Friday 15 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Locally triangular graphs and rectagraphs with symmetry
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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 (...)
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Friday 22 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Designs and Elusive Codes in Hamming Graphs
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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 (...)
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Friday 29 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Point-primitive generalised polygons
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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 (...)
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September 2014
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Friday 05 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Counting surfaces: ribbon graphs, branched covers, and more
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Norman Do (Monash University)
will speak on
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) (...)
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Friday 12 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Generalized quadrangles and AS-configurations of finite p-groups
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Stephen Glasby (UWA)
will speak on
Generalized quadrangles and AS-configurations of finite p-groups
at 3pm Friday 12 September in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
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This is joint work with John Bamberg and Eric Swartz at UWA.
One method (...)
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Friday 19 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Finite 2-set-homogeneous graphs
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Jin-Xin Zhou (Beijing Jiaotong University)
will speak on
Finite 2-set-homogeneous graphs
at 3pm Friday 19 September in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
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Let k be a positive integer. A finite graph G is said to be k-set-homogeneous if for (...)
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Friday 26 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, A geometric proof of Wedderburn's Theorem
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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 (...)
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October 2014
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Friday 03 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Simple group factorisations and applications
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There will be refreshments before the seminar, at 2:40pm in the common room.
Cheryl Praeger (UWA)
will speak on
Simple group factorisations and applications
at 3pm Friday 3 October in Weatherburn Lecture Theatre.
Abstract:
Factori (...)
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Thursday 09 |
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 (...)
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Friday 10 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Vertex-transitive graphs with large automorphism groups: a potpourri
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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 (...)
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Friday 17 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Magic words
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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 (...)
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Friday 24 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Self-complementary vertex-transitive graphs
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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 (...)
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November 2014
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Friday 07 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Commuting graphs
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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 (...)
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Friday 14 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Antiflag-transitive generalized quadrangles
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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 (...)
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Friday 28 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Tits' buildings as combinatorial objects
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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 (...)
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December 2014
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Thursday 18 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Symmetric p-groups
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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 (...)
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January 2015
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Friday 16 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Growth rates of binary matroids
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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 (...)
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Friday 23 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar, Generation of finite groups
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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 (...)
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Thursday 29 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium: Groups, diagrams and geometries
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Colloquium time date and location: 4pm, Thursday 29th January, Blakers Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Colva Roney-Dougal, University of St. Andrews.
Title: Groups, diagrams and geometries.
Abstract: The study of finitely-presented groups has been ongoing since the work of (...)
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