There will be a CIRCA lunchtime seminar on Thursday 10th April at 1pm in Maths Lecture Theatre B. Duncan Adamson and Callum Barber will speak. Duncan’s Title: Subsequence Universality in Languages Duncan’s Abstract: Subsequences are a fundamental object in combinatorics on words. Informally, a subsequence of a word $w$ is a word $u$ which can be…
There will be a CIRCA lunchtime seminar on Thursday 27th March at 1pm in Maths Lecture Theatre B. Ben Claydon and Joe Edwards will speak. Ben’s Title: Query Updates for Similarity Search Ben’s Abstract: Similarity search encompasses the task of finding those objects in a large collection which are most alike to, in some way, an…
There will be a CIRCA lunchtime seminar on Thursday 13th March at 1pm in Maths Lecture Theatre B. Mun See Chang and Jiaping Lu will speak. Mun See’s Title: Unnamed types Jiaping’s Title: Generalised wreath products Jiaping’s Abstract: In the talk, I will introduce generalised wreath products and their relation to direct products and wreath…
There will be a CIRCA lunchtime seminar on Thursday 20th February at 1pm in Maths Lecture Theatre B. Simon Dobson and Colva Roney-Dougal will speak. Simon’s Title: Network (and epidemic) curvature Simon’s Abstract: Networks and graphs often don’t have geometry, so how can they have curvature? Mathematicians have helpfully defined some notions that relate to network,…
There will be a CIRCA lunchtime seminar on Thursday 6th February at 1pm in Maths Lecture Theatre B. Chris Brown and Francis Clavette (Université de Montréal) will speak. Chris’ Title: pi-par: A Dependently-Typed Parallel Language with Algorithmic Skeletons Chris’ Abstract: Algorithmic skeletons are an effective, pattern-based approach for parallelising software. However, despite implementations for a range…
There will be a Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra (CIRCA) lunchtime seminar on Thursday 28th November at 1pm in Maths Lecture Theatre D. Erdem Kus and Jon Fraser will speak at this CIRCA seminar, Erdem on ‘ Frugal Algorithm Selection’ and Jon on ‘Character sums, Fourier transforms, and root n cancellation in finite fields’.…
There will be a Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra (CIRCA) lunchtime seminar on Thursday 14th November at 1pm in Maths Lecture Theatre D. Özgür Akgün and Peter Cameron will speak at this CIRCA seminar, Özgür on ‘Abnormal Magic Hexagons’ and Peter on ‘Recognising the commuting graphs of groups’. Özgür’s abstract: I will talk…
The speaker is Jim Davis, who is visiting from the University of Richmond. Title: GAP and difference sets Abstract: The computer program GAP has played an important role in the search for difference sets. I will give a gentle introduction to difference sets, and I will give several examples why you ought to care about…
The last CIRCA seminar of the semester will be on April 11th. Ian Gent and Jiaping Lu wil speak. Jiaping’s title Generation of Iterated Wreath Products of Almost Simple Groups Ian’s title Dominances in Single Player Games Ian’s abstract Recently we have spent much time thinking about how to model and solve single player games…
There will be a CIRCA lunchtime seminar on 28th March at 1pm in Theatre D of Maths. David Stewart (University of Manchester) will speak. Title: You need 27 tickets to guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery (Jt with David Cushing) Abstract: The authors came across the problem of finding minimal lottery design numbers…