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October 2015
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Thursday 22 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium: Encoding geometric information into combinatorial structure
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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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Friday 23 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Pairwise transitive 1-designs
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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 (...)
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Friday 30 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Decomposition theorems for graphs and matroids
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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 (...)
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November 2015
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Wednesday 04 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: On automorphisms and opposition in spherical buildings.
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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 (...)
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Friday 06 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Generalized Thrackle and Graph Surface Embeddings
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Time and place: 15:00 Friday 6 November in MLR1.
Speaker: Yian Xu (University of Western Australia)
Title: Generalized Thrackle and Graph Surface Embeddings
Abstract: A thrackle on a surface X is a graph of size e and order n drawn on X such that every two distinct (...)
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Friday 13 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Innately transitive groups
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Time and place: 15:00 Friday 13 November in MLR1.
Speaker: David Raithel (University of Western Australia)
Title: Innately transitive groups
Abstract: An innately transitive permutation group is a permutation group with a transitive minimal normal subgroup. Innately (...)
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Monday 16 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Bounding K_4-minor-free graphs in the homomorphism order
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Time and place: 15:00 Monday 16 November in Monadelphous DS
Speaker: Reza Naserasr (Université Paris-Sud)
Title: Bounding K_4-minor-free graphs in the homomorphism order
Abstract: Given a graph B of odd-girth 2k+1 we are interested in the following question: Does (...)
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Thursday 19 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium: Grrrrr...... linear stability should be simple -- the saga of the Stokes' layer
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Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium
Time and date: 4pm, Thursday 19th November
Venue: Blakers Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Andrew Bassom (The University of Western Australia)
Title: Grrrrr...... linear stability should be simple -- the saga of (...)
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Friday 20 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: How big is the Sylow p-subgroup of an irreducible solvable subgroup of GL(d,p^f)?
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Time and place: 15:00 Friday 20 November in MLR1.
Speaker: Stephen Glasby (University of Western Australia)
Title: How big is the Sylow p-subgroup of an irreducible solvable subgroup of GL(d,p^f)?
Abstract: Let G be a subgroup of GL(d,q) with q = p^f, where p is a (...)
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Friday 27 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Classical groups, derangements and primes
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Time and place: 15:00 Friday 27 November in MLR1.
Speaker: Michael Giudici (University of Western Australia)
Title: Classical groups, derangements and primes
Abstract: An elementary result of Jordan shows that every finite transitive group of degree at least two (...)
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December 2015
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Friday 04 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Semiprimitive Groups: Are they wild or just misunderstood?
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Time and place: 11:00 Friday 4 December in Weatherburn LT.
Speaker: Luke Morgan (University of Western Australia)
Title: Semiprimitive Groups: Are they wild or just misunderstood?
Abstract: The class of semiprimitive groups contains the classes of primitive (...)
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January 2016
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Friday 29 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Codes with traceability properties
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 29 January in Blakers LT
Speaker: Marcel Fernandez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
Title: Codes with traceability properties
Abstract: The talk will present codes with traceability properties. These codes are used in digital (...)
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February 2016
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Friday 05 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Wiener dimension and Sierpinski graphs
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 29 January in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Sara Zemljic (University of Iceland)
Title: Wiener dimension and Sierpinski graphs
Abstract: Wiener dimension is a relatively new graph invariant closely connected to the Wiener index of graphs. It (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Finite vs. infinite fields in matroid representation
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Time and place: 11:00 Tuesday 9 February in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Dillon Mayhew (Victoria University of Wellington)
Title: Finite vs. infinite fields in matroid representation
Abstract: We can think of a matroid as an abstraction of a discrete configuration of (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Finite groups with an automorphism inverting, squaring or cubing a non-negligible fraction of elements
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Time and place: 11:00 Tuesday 23 February in Blakers LT
Speaker: Alexander Bors (University of Salzburg)
Title: Finite groups with an automorphism inverting, squaring or cubing a non-negligible fraction of elements
Abstract: There are various results in the (...)
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March 2016
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Friday 04 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Automorphisms of circulant graphs
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 4 March in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Joy Morris (University of Lethbridge)
Title: Automorphisms of circulant graphs
Abstract: Determining the full automorphism group of a graph is a hard problem with a long history. I will discuss some of (...)
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Friday 11 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: 2-arc-transitive Cayley graphs of soluble groups
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 11 March in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Binzhou Xia (Peking University)
Title: 2-arc-transitive Cayley graphs of soluble groups
Abstract: Classifying certain classes of 2-arc-transitive graphs has received considerable attention. There have (...)
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Friday 18 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Asymptotic enumeration of vertex-transitive and Cayley graphs
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 18 March in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Gabriel Verret (UWA)
Title: Asymptotic enumeration of vertex-transitive and Cayley graphs
Abstract: I am interested in determining the number f(n) of graphs of order n from various "symmetric" (...)
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April 2016
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Friday 01 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Counting labelled delta-matroids
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Time and place: 11:00 Friday 1 April in MLR1
Speaker: Steven Noble (Brunel University London)
Title: Counting labelled delta-matroids
Abstract: Delta-matroids were introduced and studied by Bouchet in the 1980s, but have largely been ignored until the last few years (...)
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Thursday 07 |
Title: Mathematics and Statistics of Scuba Diving
Abstract:
Scuba divers are trained to follow procedures that keep them safe
while diving and afterward. Surprisingly, these safety measures
are based on just a handful of simple mathematical and statistical principles,
which will be (...)
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