What's On at UWA

Colloquium time date and location: 4pm, Thursday 21st May, Blakers Lecture Theatre.

Speaker: Dr. Murray Elder, University of Newcastle

Title. Solving equations in free groups.

Abstract. An equation in a free group is an expression U=V where U,V are words over (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 22 May in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Murray Elder (University of Newcastle)

Title: Solving equations in free groups and free monoids with constraints.

Abstract: My talk will give some details of the proof of our result - that the set of (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 29 May in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Heiko Dietrich (Monash University)

Title: Computing with real Lie algebras.

Abstract: The structure theory of complex semisimple Lie algebras uses many combinatorial objects such as root systems, Weyl (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 05 June in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Istvan Kovacs (University of Primorska)

Title: On regular Cayley maps for dihedral groups.

Abstract: The classification regular Cayley maps for cyclic groups was recently completed by Conder and Tucker (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 12 June in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Simon Smith (City University of New York)

Title: The suborbits of infinite primitive permutation groups

Abstract: In this talk I'll discuss the subdegrees (cardinalities of suborbits) of infinite (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 19 June in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia)

Title: Permutation groups with "LPS"

Abstract: My collaborations with Jan and Martin were centred on group actions, that is, on permutation (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 24 July in Austin LT.

Speaker: Qing Xiang (University of Delaware)

Title: Cameron-Liebler line classes and two-intersection sets

Abstract: Cameron-Liebler line classes are sets of lines in PG(3,q) having many interesting combinatorial (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 31 July in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Jingbo Wang (University of Western Australia)

Title: Quantum walk on graphs, unitary operation, Hamiltonian simulation, and efficient quantum circuits

Abstract: Quantum walk represents a generalised (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 7 August in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Daniel Hawtin (University of Western Australia)

Title: 2-Neighbour Transitive Codes in Hamming Graphs

Abstract: We consider a code C to be a subset of the vertex set of a Hamming graph, with alphabet Q (...)

Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium

Time and date: 4pm, Thursday 13th August

Venue: Blakers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Francis Woodhouse (The University of Western Australia)

Title: Mimicking magnets with lattices of bacterial vortices.

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Time and place: 15:00 Friday 14 August in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Joanna Fawcett (University of Western Australia)

Title: Affine rank 3 partial linear spaces

Abstract: A partial linear space consists of a finite non-empty set P of points and a collection L of subsets (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 18 September in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Mark Ioppolo (University of Western Australia)

Title: Triality via Geometric Algebra

Abstract: The automorphisms of the orthogonal group SO(+1,2n,q) generally correspond to semi-similarities of the (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 25 September in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Tomasz Popiel (University of Western Australia)

Title: Point-primitive, line-transitive generalised quadrangles of 'holomorph type'.

Abstract: In a 2012 paper, Bamberg, Giudici, Morris, Royle and (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 02 October in Blakers LT.

Speaker: Gordon Royle (University of Western Australia)

Title: Almost synchronising groups.

Abstract: A permutation group G on a set X is said to be synchronising if for every transformation f of X that is not a (...)

Abstract: The independent discovery by Lobachevsky and Bolyai of hyperbolic geometry in the 1830's was followed by slow acceptance of the subject from the 1860's on, with the publications of relevant parts of the correspondence of Gauss. A new phase was entered from 1903, when David Hilbert, in his (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 16 October in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Melissa Lee (University of Western Australia)

Title: The 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum and related mathematics.

Abstract: The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is a prestigious conference held in (...)

Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium

Time and date: 4pm, Thursday 22nd October

Venue: Blakers Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Paul Baird (Universite de Bretagne Occidentale)

Title: Encoding geometric information into combinatorial structure

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Time and place: 15:00 Friday 23 October in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Adrian Petersen (University of Western Australia)

Title: Pairwise transitive 1-designs

Abstract: Design theory has extensive interactions with other areas of mathematics, especially group theory (...)

Time and place: 15:00 Friday 30 October in Weatherburn LT.

Speaker: Irene Pivotto (University of Western Australia)

Title: Decomposition theorems for graphs and matroids

Abstract: Wagner proved that every graph that does not contain a clique on 5 vertices as a minor (...)

Time and Place: 15:00 Wednesday 4 November in Blakers Speaker: James Parkinson (University of Sydney)

Title: On automorphisms and opposition in spherical buildings.

Abstract: The opposition relation is fundamental in Tits' theory of spherical and twin buildings. When studying (...)