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May 2016
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Friday 20 |
16:05 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: The Weiss Conjecture and inspirations thereof
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 20 May in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Luke Morgan (UWA)
Title: The Weiss Conjecture and inspirations thereof
Abstract: In 1979 Richard Weiss made a beautiful conjecture: There exists a function f on the natural numbers such that, for each (...)
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Friday 27 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: What do you do when Krull-Schmidt fails?
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 27 May in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Phill Schultz (UWA)
Title: What do you do when Krull-Schmidt fails?
Abstract: I present some old and some new results on partitions of positive integers and direct decompositions of torsion-free (...)
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June 2016
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Thursday 02 |
Title: Galois and his groups
Abstract:
When Galois invented groups they were very different
from the structures taught and learned and loved in
undergraduate courses at UWA and other modern
universities. My purpose in this lecture will be to
explain the differences and calibrate (...)
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Friday 03 |
15:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: TPP subgroup triples in finite groups
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Time and place: 15:00 Friday 3 June in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Peter Neumann (Oxford)
Title: TPP subgroup triples in finite groups
Abstract: About a dozen years ago, Henry Cohn and Christopher Umans proposed a group-theoretic attack on a famous problem in the (...)
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Thursday 09 |
10:00 - EVENT - Pawsey Roadshow at The University of Western Australia : The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and UWA would like to invite you to the Pawsey Roadshow.
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The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and The University of Western Australia would like to invite you to the Pawsey Roadshow, an event showcasing services and resources that Pawsey provides to researchers across Australia.
This free event will see researchers presenting about their (...)
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Friday 10 |
16:00 - EVENT - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: The characteristic polynomial of a graph
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 10 June in Blakers LT
Speaker: Gordon Royle (UWA)
Title: The characteristic polynomial of a graph
Abstract: The characteristic polynomial of a graph G is the characteristic polynomial of its adjacency matrix. While there are many (...)
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August 2016
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Friday 05 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Hemisystem-like structures in finite geometries
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 5 August in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: John Bamberg (UWA)
Title: Hemisystem-like structures in finite geometries
Abstract: This is a longer version of the talk I will be giving at “New Directions in Combinatorics” (Singapore) (...)
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Friday 12 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: On constructions of arc-transitive maps
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 12 August in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Shu-Jiao Song (UWA)
Title: On constructions of arc-transitive maps
Abstract: A map is a 2-cell embedding of a graph into a surface. An automorphism of a map is an automorphism of the underlying graph (...)
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Monday 15 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Reflection subgroups of unitary reflection groups
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 19 August in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Don Taylor (The University of Sydney)
Title: Reflection subgroups of unitary reflection groups
Abstract: The usual notion of a reflection in Euclidean space has a natural analogue in vector spaces (...)
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Thursday 18 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium : Colloquium: The Discovery of Janko's Sporadic Simple Groups
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Everyone is warmly invited to our Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium.
Talk title: The Discovery of Janko's Sporadic Simple Groups.
Talk abstract:
In 1966, Zvonimir Janko published a paper which revolutionised finite group
theory. The previous year, working as a Research Fellow at the (...)
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Friday 26 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Generalising hemisystems and relative hemisystems
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 26 August in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Melissa Lee (UWA)
Title: Generalising hemisystems and relative hemisystems
Abstract: Segre determined in 1965 that the only nontrivial m-covers of H(3,q^2), q odd, have m=(q+1)/2. He named these (...)
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September 2016
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Friday 02 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Infinite permutation groups with all infinite normal subgroups transitive
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 2 September in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Cheryl Praeger (UWA)
Title: Infinite permutation groups with all infinite normal subgroups transitive
Abstract: The "O'Nan-Scott approach" to describing structure for finite primitive (...)
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Friday 09 |
16:00 - EVENT - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Partial linear spaces with a primitive affine automorphism group of rank 3
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 9 September in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Joanna Fawcett (UWA)
Title: Partial linear spaces with a primitive affine automorphism group of rank 3
Abstract: A partial linear space consists of a finite non-empty set P of points and a (...)
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Thursday 15 |
Everyone is warmly invited to our Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium.
Talk title: The random graph and its friends
Talk abstract: There is a countably infinite graph R (first explicitly constructed by
Richard Rado) with the following remarkable property: If we choose a
c (...)
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Friday 16 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Circular designs balanced for neighbours at distances one and two
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 16 September in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Rosemary Bailey (St. Andrews)
Title: Circular designs balanced for neighbours at distances one and two
Abstract: We consider experiments where the experimental units are arranged in a circle or in (...)
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Friday 23 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Idempotent generation and road closures
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 23 September in Blakers LT
Speaker: Peter Cameron (St. Andrews)
Title: Idempotent generation and road closures
Abstract: This is part of a big project linking the properties of a transformation semigroup to those of the permutation group (...)
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October 2016
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Thursday 06 |
Everyone is warmly invited to our Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium.
Talk title: Design of dose-escalation trials: Research spurred by a trial that went wrong
Talk abstract: In March 2006 the topic of designed experiments briefly hit the
British newspaper headlines when (...)
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Friday 07 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Linear codes from matrices: twisted centralizer codes
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 7 October in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Stephen Glasby (UWA)
Title: Linear codes from matrices: twisted centralizer codes
Abstract: A linear code is a subspace of a finite vector space. These are the codes most commonly used in error-correct (...)
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Friday 14 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Covering a group by conjugates of a coset
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 14 October in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Barbara Baumeister (Bielefeld University)
Title: Covering a group by conjugates of a coset
Abstract: For every doubly transitive permutation group G the conjugates of a non-trivial coset of a point (...)
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Friday 21 |
16:00 - SEMINAR - Groups and Combinatorics Seminar: Generalised quadrangles and simple groups
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Time and place: 16:00 Friday 21 October in Weatherburn LT
Speaker: Tomasz Popiel (UWA)
Title: Generalised quadrangles and simple groups
Abstract: Generalised quadrangles (GQs) with point-regular automorphism groups have been studied since at least 1992, when Dina (...)
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