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- Wednesday 31st July, Carrie Rutherford, Partial Fields and Matroid Representations II
- Wednesday 24th July, Carrie Rutherford, Partial Fields and Matroid Representations I (after the talk by Geoff Whittle at CamConf; see also his 1996 paper with Charles Semple and Stefan Zwam's 2009 PhD)
- Tuesday 16th July, outing to Queen Mary to see "Maths Magic: Mathemagic with a deck of cards" by Colm Mulcahy
- Wednesday 10th July, Peter Cameron's retirement conference
- Wednesday 3rd July, no meeting (British Combinatorial Conference)
- Wednesday 26th June, Carrie Rutherford, "Pancyclicity when all cycles must pass exactly k chords"
- Tuesday 25th June, LMS popular lectures
- Wednesday 19th June, no meeting
- Wednesday 12th June, no meeting
- Wednesday 5th June, outing to Oxford Combinatorics meeting
- Wednesday 29 May, no meeting
- Wednesday 22nd May, Robin Whitty, Minkowski Sums and the Isoperimetric Inequality (based on these notes by Jeremy Booher with some reference to the survey article here by Richard Gardner)
- Tuesday 14th May, outing to hear Peter Cameron's joint Gresham College/LMS talk "Mathematics: the next generation" at the Museum of London, 6pm
- Wednesday 8th May, Robin Whitty, Schnyder's Theorem about posets and graph planarity. Mostly based on this paper by Felsner and Trotter
- Wednesday 1st May, Tony Forbes (Open University), the LLL Algorithm Part 5 (again using the Jonathan Kelner notes)
- Wednesday 24th April, Tony Forbes (Open University), the LLL Algorithm Part 4 (moving on to notes by G Eric Moorhouse)
- Wednesday 17th April, Tony Forbes (Open University), the LLL Algorithm Part 3 (see link to notes on 6th Feb)
- Wednesday 10th April, Robin Whitty, the LLL Algorithm Part 2 (see link to notes on 6th Feb)
- Wednesday 27th March, outing to Queen Mary to hear Marcus du Sautoy on "The Secret Mathematicians".
- Thursday 14 March, outing to 2013 David Crighton Lectures, (Peter Neumann and Arieh Iserles), at the Royal Society
- Wednesday 6th March, outing to Queen Mary to hear Arthur T. Benjamin on "The Secrets of Mental Math"
- Wednesday 27th February, outing to "Junk the Jargon Final and Drinks Reception" at Queen Mary
- Wednesday 20th February, outing to Algorithms Day at Queen Mary University of London followed by 'mathmagic' event, also at Queen Mary
- Wednesday 13th February, Krzysztof Apt, CWI & University of Amsterdam, "Common Knowledge in Email Exchanges" followed by Gordon Plotkin's Royal Society Milner Award lecture: "From logic to computer science: a linguistic journey"
- Wednesday 6th February, Robin Whitty "The LLL Algorithm. Part 1" based on Lecture 18 of this MIT course given by Jonathan Kelner
- Wednesday 30th January, outing to Open University Winter Combinatorics meeting
- Wednesday 23rd January, 2013 New Year Lecture: David Singerman, University of Southampton, "The deep mathematics behind a child's drawing"
- Wednesday 16th January, outing to hear Peter Harremoës speak at the Queen Mary Discrete Maths Interdisciplinary Seminar on "Occam's Razor in Action - information as a link between statistics and probability theory"
- Wednesday 9th January, Carrie Rutherford, "A question about walks on trees"
- Wednesday 19th December, No talk
- Wednesday 12th December, Carrie Rutherford, "The chromatic polynomial: a centenary celebration" (based on slides by Vitaly Voloshin - click on 'Today's Class').
- Wednesday 5th December, Fatima Affif Chaouche, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, "Colouring and labeling of graphs"
- Wednesday 28th November, Tony Forbes on "Primality without recourse to arithmetic, Part II" notes
- Wednesday 21st November, Fatima Affif Chaouche, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algiers, "Pancyclicity when every cycle must pass exactly k Hamilton cycle chords."
- Wednesday 14th November, Robin Whitty, "Finding a continued fraction for Tau"
- Tuesday 6 November at 6pm: outing to BCS-FACS seminar: "The Mathematical Objection: Turing, Godel, and Penrose on the Mind" by Jack Copeland.
- Wednesday 31st October, outing to Gresham College/BSHM meeting on 19th Century Mathematical Physics, 4–7 pm. Tony managed to make most of the Old Codgers Combinatorics Meeting at Reading as well!
- Tuesday 23rd October, outing to IMA London Branch Meeting: John Barrow on " Mathematics is Everywhere" at UCL, 6.30–7.30
- Wednesday 17th October, outing to hear Andrew Hodges on "Alan Turing: Not Just a Beautiful Mind" at the Royal Society
- Wednesday 10th October, Tony Forbes on "Primality without recourse to arithmetic, Part I" notes
- Tuesday 2nd October, outing to hear Ben Green on "Looking for patterns in the prime numbers" at the Royal Society
- Wednesday 26th September, outing to the Royal Society to hear Roger Highfield deliver the 2012 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture Heroes of Science.
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