What's On at UWA

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 28 October in Weatherburn LT

Speaker: Michael Giudici (UWA)

Title: Simple automorphic loops

Abstract: A loop is a set Q with binary operation * such that the Cayley table for * is a Latin square and there is a neutral element 1 such (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to the Joint Physics and Mathematics Colloquium. This special event is due to the visit of Professor Rod Gover from the University of Auckland. Please come along to hear about some interesting developments in mathematical physics.

Talk title: Conformal geometry (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to the Joint Physics and Mathematics Colloquium.

Title: "Higher-Spin Gauge Symmetries and Space-Time"

Abstract: Higher-spin gauge theory is a theory exhibiting an infinite extension of usual space-time and internal symmetries of modern (...)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 25 November in LT G16, Robert Street Building

Speaker: Yian Xu (UWA)

Title: Normal and non-normal Cayley graphs of non-prime power order

Abstract: Let Q be a known generalised quadrangle of order (q - 1, q + 1), where q is a prime power (...)

The 2017 AMSI-ANZIAM Lecturer Maria Vlasiou will give a public lecture at UWA as part of the Mathematics and Statistics Colloquia Series. All are very welcome to attend.

Title: Queues on Interacting Networks

Abstract: We have all had the unpleasant experience of waiting for (...)

Speaker: Gabriel Verret (University of Auckland)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 03/03/2017 in Weatherburn LT

Title: Colour-preserving automorphisms of Cayley graphs

Abstract: A Cayley digraph Cay(G,S) comes equipped with a natural colouring of its arcs: the arc (g,sg) (...)

Speaker: Rebecca Waldecker (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 10/03/2017 in Weatherburn LT

Title: Orbital graphs

Abstract: In joint work with Markus Pfeiffer and Chris Jefferson (both in St Andrews) I got interested in (...)

Everyone is warmly invited to the Mathematics & Statistics Colloquium.

Talk title: Snowflakes, viruses and algorithms

Talk abstract: In this talk we will look at different objects that have one thing in common: they exhibit symmetry. Why is this relevant? How can we (...)

Speaker: Hui Zhou (University of Western Australia)

Time and place: 16:00 Friday 17/03/2017 in Weatherburn LT

Title: On top locally-s-distance-transitive graphs

Abstract: A graph with some graph symmetry property is called "top", if it cannot be viewed as (...)