Centre for Research in Mathematics

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• Newsletter 2, June 2013 (PDF, 4437.88 KB) (opens in a new window) 
• Newsletter 1, Feb 2013 (PDF, 1059.72 KB) (opens in a new window) 

Upcoming Activities of the Members 

• James East is the organiser for the Special Session in Algebra for the 2013 AustMS conference (Sydney, 30 Sept - 3 Aug, 2013).
• James East is a member of the organising committee for AMSI/AustMS Workshop on General Algebra and its Applications: GAIA 2013, a conference in honour of Brian Davey’s retirement and 65th birthday (Melbourne 15-19 July, 2013).
• Leanne Rylands is the organiser for the Special Session in Combinatorics for the 2013 AustMS conference (Sydney, 30 Sept - 3 Aug, 2013).
• Leanne Rylands is a member of the organising committee for Lighthourse Delta 2013 (Kiama, 24-29 Nov, 2013) and an editor of the conference proceedings.

Recent Activities of the Members

• Sangeeta Bhatia attended the AMSI Summer School in Melbourne in January 2013, and is gave a talk at the ANZIAM annual meeting in Newcastle, 3–7 February Newletter from the UWS Centre for Research in Mathematics entitled “Group theoretic formalization of doublecut-and-join model of chromosomal rearrangement”.
• James East visited Des FitzGerald at the University of Tasmania, and attended a workshop on semigroups, giving a talk entitled “Small generating sets for ideals in partition monoids”, in December 2012. He also attended the Victorian Algebra Conference, and spoke on “Generating rank N semigroups with fewer than N elements” in December 2012.
• Andrew Francis visited Prof Henry Wynn at London School of Economics in December 2012, as well as Dr Dorothy Buck at Imperial College and Prof Chrystopher Nehaniv at the University of Hertfordshire.
• Roozbeh Hazrat visited the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai (Visiting Ravi Rao), and the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore, (Visiting B. Sury) in January 2013, giving two talks in TIFR, Mumbai and two talks in ISI, Bangalore. He also gave a talk at International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
• Leanne Rylands was on the organising committee for the conference Game On: Our Biology and Biomedical Graduates, University of Sydney, 11 December 2012, and gave a talk entitled “Scientists and Mathematicians: Understanding each other”.

Upcoming Visitors to the Centre

• Dr James Mitchell, University of St Andrews, visiting James East and Attila Egri-Nagy, 30 June - 22 July, 2013.

Recent Visitors to the Centre

• Prof Peter Jarvis, University of Tasmania, visited Andrew Francis, 21–24 January, 2013.
• Prof Gonzalo Aranda Pino, University of Malaga, is visiting Roozbeh Hazrat, November 2012 – March 2013.
• Prof Gene Abrams, University of Colorado, is visiting Roozbeh Hazrat, 5–15 January, 2013.
• Prof Guoping Tang, Chinese Academy of Science, visited Roozbeh Hazrat, 22 January – 22 February, 2013.
• Prof Brent Everitt, University of York, visited James East, 12–13 February, 2013.