Welcome to The Maths Study Group

The Maths Study Group is an initiative of the former department of Maths, Stats and Foundation Studies, aimed at providing a forum for mathematically-minded people, within the Dept and elsewhere, to meet and share ideas.

Each week somebody gives an expository talk with the aim of increasing everybody's mathematical general knowledge.

We usually meet on Wednesday afternoons (at 4:30pm) - preceded by tea (at 4pm) and followed, sometimes, by a meal.

Next Study Group Meeting: Wednesday, 24th February 2010, TBA.

Forthcoming talks (provisional list)

Wednesday, 3rd March 2010, Lowell Beineke, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne and Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Decycling Graphs.
Wednesday, 10th March 2010, outing to Alan Sokal's inaugural lecture at UCL.
Wednesday, 17th March 2010, outing to the Oxford 1-day combinatorics meeting.
Wednesday, 24th March 2010, outing to hear Lord Julian Hunt, Applications to climate policy, LIMS.
Wednesday, 24th March 2010, Tony Forbes, Open University, Partition rank and crank.

TBA, Sam Tarzi, Queen Mary, University of London, Random Graph Theory As I Remember It.

Previous talks

Wednesday, 17th February 2010, we watched Horizon's Infinity and beyond.
Wednesday, 10th February 2010, outing to Marcus du Sautoy's talk on The secret mathematicians, Royal Society.
Wednesday, 3rd February 2010, Jon Selig, Cross Ratios.
Wednesday, 27th January 2010, Tony Forbes, Open University, Cycle switching in Steiner triple systems.
Wednesday, 20th January 2010, outing to Boris Khoruzhenko's Inaugural Lecture on Random matrix puzzles, Queen Mary, University of London.
Wednesday, 13th January 2010, Carrie Rutherford, P Matrices.
Wednesday, 6th January 2010, Robin Whitty, The Friendship Theorem.
Wednesday, 16th December 2009, Robin Whitty, Dinur's proof of the PCP Theorem.
Wednesday, 9th December 2009, Robin Whitty, Introduction to the PCP Theorem.
Wednesday, 25th November 2009, Murad Banaji, Department of Medical Physics, University College London, Combinatorial approaches to injectivity of functions.
Wednesday, 18th November 2009, Graham Eaton, Open University, Asymptotic Analysis.
Wednesday, 11th November 2009, Carrie Rutherford, Z_4 Codes.
Wednesday, 4th November 2009, outing to the 2nd Old Codgers' Combinatorics Meeting, Reading.
Wednesday, 21st October 2009, Jon Selig, Simplicial Complexes.
Wednesday, 14th October 2009, Robin Whitty, A Guided Tour of Theorem County.
Wednesday, 30th September 2009, Graham Eaton, Open University, The Mandelbrot Set.
Wednesday, 23rd September 2009, Tony Forbes, Open University, Eleven billion Steiner triple systems of order 19 cont.
Wednesday, 16th September 2009, Francis McDonnell, The Reformulation of Integer Programmes with Emphasis on the Fibonacci Inequalities (Or How I Nearly Touched Upon Matroids Much Earlier).

Talks from 2008/09 can be found here.

Talks from 2007/08 can be found here.

Talks from 2006/07 can be found here.

Talks from 2005/06 can be found here.

Talks from 2004/05 can be found here.

Other Seminars

Our (big) sister study group, the Queen Mary Combinatorics Study Group, meets on Friday afternoons and there are usually one or two of us going there (leaving here about 3pm).

University College Pure Maths Seminar

Queen Mary, University of London Pure Maths Seminar

The Lighthill Institute of Mathematical Sciences has regular evening meetings at the London Maths Society, usually on a particular theme.

Centre for Discrete and Applicable Mathematics (CDAM) seminars at LSE

Events

Queen Mary hosts a very comprehensive site listing discrete maths- related conferences