What's On at UWA

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 (...)

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 (...)

Time and place: 3pm Friday 23 January in MLR1.

Speaker: Seyed Hassan Alavi (Buali Sina University)

Title: Recent studies on symmetric designs.

Abstract: A symmetric design (v,k,l) is an incidence structure consisting of a set of v points and a set of v blocks with (...)

Time and place: 3pm Friday 6 February in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Gordon Royle (UWA)

Title: Homomorphisms and Endomorphisms of Graphs.

Abstract: A homomorphism from a graph X to a graph Y is a function f from V(X) to V(Y) that preserves edges (but not necessarily (...)

Colloquium time date and location: 4pm, Thursday 19th February, Blakers Lecture Theatre.

Speaker: Prof. Nozer Singpurwallah, City University of Hong Kong.

Title: The Bayesian Paradigm for Statistical Inference and Decision Making.

Abstract: In this expository talk (...)

Time and place: 3pm Friday 27 February in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Cai-Heng Li (UWA)

Title: The regular one-face dessins and surface coverings.

Abstract: I will present a classification of edge-transitive dessins (orientable bipartite maps) with a single face, and (...)

Time and place: 3pm Friday 6 March in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: John Bamberg (UWA)

Title: Multimarkdown and typesetting mathematics.

Abstract: Markdown has been around for around a decade or so, and is a simpler alternative to xml for producing simple easy-to-read (...)

Time and place: 3pm Friday 13 March in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Luke Morgan (UWA)

Title: A non-classification theorem for 2-arc-transitive graphs.

Abstract: It would be great to have a classification of 2-arc-transitive graphs! Sadly, this is probably out of reach (...)

Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium

Time and date: 4pm, Thursday 19th March

Venue: Blakers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Prof. Michael Small, The University of Western Australia.

Title: Complex Systems: From nonlinear dynamics to graphs, via time series.

Time and place: 3pm Friday 20 March in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Frederico A. M. Ribeiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais)

Title: UCS groups and associated algebras.

Abstract: Groups having many characteristic subgroups tend to have simpler automorphism subgroups, so (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 27 March in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Gabriel Verret (University of Western Australia)

Title: Vertex-primitive digraphs having vertices with almost equal neighbourhoods.

Abstract: Apart from some very trivial examples, a vertex-primitive (...)

Time and place: 14:00 Thursday 2 April in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Padraig O Cathain (Monash University)

Title: Combinatorial designs and compressed sensing.

Abstract: Traditionally signal sampling and signal processing have been regarded as two separate tasks. Shannon's (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 10 April in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Jason Semeraro (University of Bristol)

Title: Conway Groupoids.

Abstract: To a supersimple 2-(n,4,lambda) design (a simple design where lines intersect in at most two points), one may associate a " (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Tuesday 14 April in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Laura Mancinska (National University of Singapore)

Title: Graph homomorphisms for quantum players.

Abstract: A homomorphism from a graph X to a graph Y is an adjacency preserving mapping f:V(X)->V( (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 17 April in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Alastair Litterick (University of Auckland)

Title: The Many Faces of Triangle Groups.

Abstract: Do the finite groups in a given class have generating sets of a prescribed form? Versions of this problem (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 24 April in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Bart De Bruyn (Ghent University)

Title: Regular near hexagons and Q-polynomial distance-regular graphs.

Abstract: A near 2d-gon is a point-line geometry with diameter d having the property that for every (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 1 May in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: David Roberson (Nanyang Technological University)

Title: Cores of cubelike graphs.

Abstract: A graph is said to be cubelike if it is a Cayley graph for some power of the group of order two. The core of a (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 8 May in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Shujiao Song (University of Western Australia)

Title: On the stabilisers of locally 2-transitive graphs.

Abstract: For a connected locally (G,2)-transitive graph and an edge {v,w}, both the induced (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 15 May in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Stephen Glasby (University of Western Australia)

Title: p-groups, Weyl modules, and maximal subgroups of linear groups.

Abstract: Given a subgroup H of GL(d,p), there exists a d-generated p-group G (...)