This list of Pure Maths seminars at Queen Mary is more-or-less complete since the beginning of 2002. The current seminar programme is here. The titles of the talks link to abstracts where these are available.
| Seminars in 2005 | ||
| 10 January 2005 | Steve Donkin | |
| Flags in 3-space | ||
| 17th January 2005 | Robert F. Bailey | |
| Error-correcting codes from permutation groups | ||
| 24 January 2005 | Cheng Yeaw Ku | |
| Intersecting families of set partitions | ||
| 31 January 2005 | Peter Cameron | |
| Embedding partial Steiner systems | ||
| 7 February 2005 | Iwan Williams | |
| The Quadrantid Meteor Shower: The hunt for the parent | ||
| 14 February 2005 | No meeting | |
| Anniversary lectures | ||
| 21 February 2005 | John Arhin | |
| On the structure of equireplicate partial linear spaces with constant line size | ||
| 28 February 2005 | No meeting | |
| Inaugural lecture: Cho-Ho Chu, Left and Right in Mathematics | ||
| 7 March 2005 | Henrik Bäärnhielm | |
| Constructive recognition of the Suzuki groups | ||
| 14 March 2005 | Richard Barraclough | |
| Netting the Monster | ||
| 21 March 2005 | Donald Preece | |
| A powerful new general approach to constructing terraces for the group of integers modulo n | ||
| 4 April 2005 | Robert Johnson | |
| Universal cycles for permutations and other combinatorial families | ||
| 25 April 2005 | Bert Wehrfritz | |
| Finite dimensional division algebras and soluble groups | ||
| 9 May 2005 | John Bray | |
| Good bases for lattices | ||
| 16 May 2005 | Beat Steiner (Zürich and Southampton) | |
| On a generalization of Bass' trace conjecture to group-graded rings | ||
| 23 May 2005 | Jan Grabowski | |
| Inductive constructions associated to Dynkin diagrams | ||
| 26 September 2005 | Rosemary Bailey (Queen Mary) | |
| Block designs for experiments: from microarrays to orthogonal arrays | ||
| 3 October 2005 | Dezso Miklos (Budapest, visiting QM) | |
| Extremal problems on the hypercube | ||
| 10 October 2005 | Christian Elsholtz (Royal Holloway) | |
| Additive decompositions of the set of primes and new methods in prime number theory | ||
| 17 October 2005 | Peter Cameron (Queen Mary) | |
| From orthogonal arrays to Schur's Theorem | ||
| 24 October 2005 | Koko Kayibi (visiting QM) | |
| Matroids and simplicial complexes | ||
| 31 October 2005 | Max Kanovich (CS, Queen Mary) | |
| Bijective proofs in the theory of integer partitions | ||
| 7 November 2005 | Bill Jackson (Queen Mary) | |
| Zero distribution of chromatic polynomials of graphs | ||
| 14 November 2005 | Rob Wilson (Queen Mary) | |
| Involution centralizers in matrix group algorithms | ||
| 21 November 2005 | Robert Connelly (Cornell) | |
| Tensegrities: Why things don't fall down | ||
| 28 November 2005 | Richard Pinch (GCHQ) | |
| The distribution of Carmichael numbers | ||
| 5 December 2005 | No meeting | |
| Public lecture: The Deep Impact mission, by Mike A'Hearn | ||
| 12 December 2005 | Thomas Müller (Queen Mary) | |
| Divisibility properties of subgroup numbers | ||
| Seminars in 2004 | ||
| 19 January 2004 | Bill Jackson | |
| Rigidity of graphs and frameworks | ||
| 26 January 2004 | Charles Leedham-Green | |
| Book I of Newton's Principia | ||
| 2 February 2004 | Pavel Zalesski | |
| Virtually free pro-p groups | ||
| 9 February 2004 | A. Braun | |
| When is a finitely generated module (over a commutative ring) projective? | ||
| 23 February 2004 | Donald Preece | |
| What you can do with two zeros (or none) | ||
| 1 March 2004 | Dudley Stark | |
| Probability and permutations | ||
| 8 March 2004 | R. A. Bailey | |
| Book launch | Association schemes: Designed experiments, algebra and combinatorics | |
| 15 March 2004 | Leonard Soicher | |
| Block designs, groups and computation | ||
| 22 March 2004 | Alina Vdovina | |
| Groups, graphs, knots and buildings | ||
| 29 March 2004 | Peter Cameron | |
| Isometries of Urysohn space | ||
| 4 October 2004 | Peter Cameron | |
| Ranks and signatures of graphs | ||
| 11 October 2004 | Cheng Yeaw Ku | |
| Intersecting families of partial permutations | ||
| 18 October 2004 | Wilfrid Hodges | |
| Recent work in mathematical semantics | ||
| 25 October 2004 | Thomas Prellberg | |
| Monotonicity of partition functions | ||
| 1 November 2004 | Tom Hadfield | |
| Quantum groups and noncommutative geometry | ||
| 8 November 2004 | No meeting | |
| Special lecture | Donald Preece: 65 and still counting | |
| 15 November 2004 | Edmund Harriss | |
| Regular polytopes (with models and pictures) | ||
| 22 November 2004 | Ian Chiswell | |
| Locally invariant orders on groups | ||
| 29 November 2004 | Matt Fayers | |
| Fixed-win knockout tournaments | ||
| 6 December 2004 | No meeting | |
| Inaugural lecture | Bill Jackson: Rigidity of Frameworks | |
| 13 December 2004 | Rob Wilson | |
| The weird and wonderful world of octonions | ||
| Seminars in 2003 | ||
| 6 January 2003 | Ed Formanek (Penn State) | |
| Braid group representations of low degree | ||
| 20 January 2003 | Thomas Müller (Queen Mary) | |
| The Poincaré-Klein problem | ||
| 27 January 2003 | Norbert Knarr (Würzburg) | |
| Compact topological generalized polygons | ||
| 3 February 2003 | Graham White (Queen Mary) | |
| The frame problem: some mathematical issues | ||
| 10 February 2003 | John Parker (Durham) | |
| Complex hyperbolic quasi-Fuchsian groups | ||
| 24 February 2003 | Alison Parker (Oxford) | |
| Good filtration dimensions and quasi-hereditary algebras | ||
| 3 March 2003 | Michael Mackey (University College Dublin) | |
| Composition operators on bounded symmetric domains | ||
| 10 March 2003 | Bert Wehrfritz (Queen Mary) | |
| Artinian-finitary groups | ||
| 14 March 2003 | Prasenjit Saha (Queen Mary) | |
| An experiment in micropublishing | ||
| 17 March 2003 | Nigel Hitchin (Oxford) | |
| Geometry with a B-field | ||
| 24 March 2003 | Don Collins (Queen Mary) | |
| The conjugacy problem and the Higman embedding theorem | ||
| 31 March 2003 | Marcio Soares (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) | |
| Polar varieties associated to projective holomorphic foliations | ||
| 28 April 2003 | Pablo Spiga (Queen Mary) | |
| Permutation characters of finite p-groups | ||
| 12 May 2003 | Aner Shalev (Jerusalem) | |
| Fuchsian groups, subgroup growth, random quotients and random walks | ||
| 19 May 2003 | Maud de Visscher (Queen Mary) | |
| Representations of finite Chevalley groups | ||
| 29 September 2003 | Evgenii Khukhro (Cardiff) | |
| Lie algebras with almost regular automorphisms | ||
| 6 October 2003 | Brita Nucinkis (Zürich) | |
| On dimensions in Bredon homology | ||
| 13 October 2003 | Karl Gruenberg (Queen Mary) | |
| Exponents of cohomology and the principal ideal theorem | ||
| 20 October 2003 | Jim Brooks (Gainesville) | |
| Equicontinuity: Applications to C*-algebras and stochastic integration | ||
| 27 October 2003 | Stephen Power (Lancaster) | |
| Invariant subspaces for some Lie semigroups of unitary operators | ||
| 3 November 2003 | Yuri Bazlov (Queen Mary) | |
| A Clifford algebra analogue of the Harish-Chandra map | ||
| 10 November 2003 | Vincent Guirardel (Toulouse) | |
| Limit groups and groups acting freely on Rn-trees | ||
| 17 November 2003 | Rebecca Thorn (Queen Mary) | |
| Metric diophantine approximation, a geometric approach | ||
| 24 November 2003 | Dan Segal (Oxford) | |
| Subgroups of finite index in profinite groups | ||
| 1 December 2003 | David Edwards (Oxford) | |
| Function lattices and commutative lattices of Hilbert-space projections | ||
| 8 December 2003 | Roger Bryant (Manchester) | |
| Lie modules for the general linear group | ||
| 15 December 2003 | John Wilson (Oxford) | |
| Aspects of growth of groups | ||
| Seminars in 2002 | ||
| 7 January 2002 | Peter Cameron (Queen Mary) | |
| Polynomials associated with permutation groups, matroids and codes | ||
| 14 January 2002 | Julian Gilbey (Queen Mary) | |
| Permutation group algebras | ||
| 21 January 2002 | Rosemary Bailey (Queen Mary) | |
| Crested products | ||
| 28 January 2002 | Abigail Kirk (Queen Mary) | |
| Extending right orderings of groups | ||
| 4 February 2002 | Sir John Kingman (Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge) | |
| Trafalgar and other battles | ||
| 11 February 2002 | Matt Ollis (Queen Mary) | |
| Terraces for groups and some applications | ||
| 18 February 2002 | Graham Brightwell (LSE) | |
| The number of k-SAT functions | ||
| 25 February 2002 | David Preiss (UCL) | |
| Category and measure do not mix - or do they? | ||
| 4 March 2002 | Ian Wanless (Oxford) | |
| Permanents and rook polynomials | ||
| 11 March 2002 | Sonia Mansilla (Queen Mary) | |
| On the construction of highly symmetric digraphs using Latin squares | ||
| 18 March 2002 | Roger Bryant (UMIST) | |
| Witt's formula, free Lie algebras, and Adams operations | ||
| 25 March 2002 | Gerhard Roehrle (Birmingham) | |
| On the geometry of generalized Steinberg varieties | ||
| 29 April 2002 | Don Collins (Queen Mary) | |
| One-relator groups: Intersections of conjugates of Magnus subgroups | ||
| 20 May 2002 | Ben Brown (Queen Mary) | |
| ??? | ||
| 27 May 2002 | William Chen (Macquarie University, Sydney) | |
| The classical mean squares problem in discrepancy theory | ||
| 23 September 2002 | Charles Leedham-Green & Susan McKay (Queen Mary) | |
| Book launch | The Structure of Groups of Prime Power Order | |
| 30 September 2002 | Wilfrid Hodges (Queen Mary) | |
| The brains of mathematicians, II | ||
| 7 October 2002 | Peter Kropholler (Queen Mary) | |
| Modular invariants of orthogonal groups | ||
| 14 October 2002 | Peter Cameron (Queen Mary) | |
| Some base measures for finite groups | ||
| 17 October 2002 | A. Volcic (Trieste) | |
| Mathematical computerized tomography and geometric tomography | ||
| 31 October 2002 | D. Bakic (Zagreb) | |
| Hilbert C*-modules: bases, frames and Wigner's Theorem | ||
| 4 November 2002 | Martin Bridson (Imperial) | |
| Quotients, group actions, dimensions and Helly's Theorem | ||
| 11 November 2002 | Cho-Ho Chu (Queen Mary) | |
| Harmonic functions and random walks on groups | ||
| 25 November 2002 | Harriet Pollatsek (Mt Holyoke & Sussex) | |
| A mathematician's introduction to quantum computing and error correction | ||
| 9 December 2002 | Peter Higgins (Essex) | |
| Sur un théorème de M. Sierpinski | ||
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