Next meeting
17 May	Daniel Kral' (Prague)	Algorithms for first-order model checking

Queen Mary, University of London
School of Mathematical Sciences

Combinatorics Study Group

Forthcoming meetings in April-June 2013:

19 April: Tom Bohman (Carnegie Mellon University), Cube packing problems and zero-error information theory
3 May: Jeroen Schillewaert (Imperial): Small maximal partial ovoids in generalized quadrangles
10 May: Mikhail Klin, Some new infinite families of non-Schurian association schemes
17 May: Daniel Kral', Algorithms for first-order model checking
31 May: Michelle Kendal, tba (tentative)

The Combinatorics Study Group meets at 4:30pm on Fridays in room M103 of the Mathematical Sciences building at Queen Mary, University of London. (Directions: Turn left on leaving Stepney Green tube station and proceed 400 metres to the building on the left.) For more information, see the directions here.

Resources:

Notes from the first talk on Entropy, partitions, groups and association schemes are here.
Slides from the talk by Celia Glass and Peter Cameron are here.
Slides from Geoff Whittle's Aitken lectures: Well-quasi-ordering binary matroids and Matroid representation over infinite fields
Notes from Alan Sokal's talks
List of talks since 1999 (The data from 1999 to 2005 is thanks to Robin Whitty, Robert Bailey, and Michael Giudici; it is incomplete and not quite correct. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has corrections, or records of earlier talks.)
Notes from some previous talks

The Combinatorics Study Group has been running since 1986. The original participants were Peter Cameron, Liam Halpenny and Mark Whelan.

Conferences and events

The 24th British Combinatorial Conference will be at Royal Holloway, from 30 June (arrival day) to 5 July 2013. The plenary speakers are Jacob Fox, Massimo Giulietti, Tor Helleseth, Jan van den Heuvel, Jozef Širáň, Einar Steingrímsson, Kristina Vušković, Geoff Whittle, and Doron Zeilberger.

On 8-10 July 2013 (immediately after the BCC), there will be a conference at Queen Mary on "Combinatorics, Algebra and More", to mark Peter Cameron's Retirement. Speakers will be João Araújo, László Babai, R. A. Bailey, Peter Cameron, Michael Giudici, Timothy Gowers (tbc), Robert Johnson, Martin Liebeck, Dugald Macpherson, Peter Neumann, Donald Preece, Thomas Prellberg, Alan Sokal, Anatoly Vershik, Bridget Webb, and Geoff Whittle. The web page is here.

See the BCC Conference List for many more conferences.

Homepages of Study Group participants

Information

Proceedings of some previous Study Group sessions are available here.

Other seminars:

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16 April 2013