Slides of my talks

From here you can get copies of the slides from some talks I have given, in PDF format.

Beamer presentations:

• Homogeneous Cayley objects (Algebra, combinatorics, dynamics and applications, Belfast, September 2013): screen version, printer version
• Permutation groups and transformation semigroups (Groups St Andrews 2013): screen version,, printer version
• Primitivity (Combinatorics, Algebra and More, July 2013): screen version, printer version
• Synchronization, graph homomorphisms and combinatorics (24th British Combinatorial Conference, July 2013): screen version, printer version
• Permutation groups and transformation semigroups (Novi Sad Algebraic Conference, June 2013) screen version, printer version
• Mathematics: the next generation (LMS-Gresham College lecture, May 2013): screen version, printer version
• Bases for structures and permutation groups (Babai60, Columbus, 24 March 2010): beamer version, printable version
• Combinatorics of optimal design (BCC22, St Andrews, 6 July 2009): beamer version, printable version (picture to follow)
• Some aspects of codes over rings (Design Theory and Applications, Galway, 3 July 2009): beamer version, printable version, a photo
• Synchronization and homomorphisms (GCC09, Perth, 5 January 2009): beamer version, printable version
• Synchronization and permutation groups (4-ICC, Auckland, 15 December 2008): beamer version, printable version
• Algebraic aspects of chromatic roots (7th ANZMC, Christchurch, 8 December 2008): beamer version, printable version
• The profile of a relational structure (INI workshop on Combinatorial and Probabilistic Inequalities, 24 June 2008): beamer version, printable version
• Sum-free sets and shift automorphisms (CICADA workshop, 20 May 2008): beamer version, printable version
• Cores, hulls and synchronization (ROGICS'08, Mahdia, Tunisia, 12 May 2008): beamer version, printable version
• A Markov chain for certain triple systems (Newton Institute, Cambridge, 25 March 2008): beamer slides (a video of the talk is also available from the web page)
• From Higman-Sims to Urysohn: a random walk through groups, graphs, designs and spaces, Ambleside, 25 August 2007: beamer version, printable version, a photo
• Optimal designs and root systems, BCC, Reading, 13 July 2007: beamer version, printable version
• Oligomorphic permutation groups: growth rates and algebras, Gregynog Mathematics Colloquium, 22 May 2007: beamer version, printable version
• Counting orbits on colourings and flows, Gregynog Mathematics Colloquium, 23 May 2007: beamer version, printable version
• Derangements and p-elements in permutation groups, Group Theory and Applications, Manchester, 14 February 2007: beamer version, printable version
• Sudoku: an alternative history, talk to the Archimedeans, 2 February 2007: beamer version, printable version
• Symmetry in mathematics and mathematics of symmetry, International Symmetry Conference, Edinburgh, January 2007: beamer version, printable version
• Posets, homomorphisms and homogeneity, Czech-Slovak Symposium on Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Algorithms and Applications, 10 July 2006: beamer version, printable version, a photo
• The Rado graph and the Urysohn space, Reading Combinatorics Conference, 18 May 2006: beamer version, printable version
• Automorphism groups of homogeneous structures, Postgraduate Group Theory Conference, Southampton, 19 April 2006: beamer version, printable version, a photo

Four-to-a-page or "smallslides" format:

• Su Doku and mathematics, Induction lecture, Queen Mary, September 2005
• Counting, structure and symmetry, NZIMA/ACCMCC conference, December 2004
• The Rado graph and the Urysohn space, New Zealand Mathematics Colloquium, December 2004
• Designs on the Web, Computer Science, Royal Holloway, 26 October 2004
• Cyclic automorphisms of homogeneous structures, EMS Joint Weekend, Prague, September 2004
• Finite geometry and permutation groups: some polynomial links, Segre memorial meeting, Roma, June 2004
• Random Latin squares, RAND-APX, Oxford, December 2003
• Permutations and codes, Bled, June 2003
• The countable homogeneous poset, Leeds, April 2003
• How big is the symmetric group?, PGGT2002, Birmingham, April 2002
• Polynomials associated with permutation groups, matroids and codes
• Random strongly regular graphs?, COMB01, Barcelona, September 2001
• Association schemes and permutation groups, LMS Durham Symposium, July 2001
• Multi-letter Youden rectangles from quadratic forms, British Combinatorial Conference, July 2001
• Elusive groups and the polycirculant conjecture, Barcelona, February 2001.
• Orbits on n-tuples, Computation, Models and Groups, Cambridge, January 2001.
• The random graph revisited (composite of talks at Australian Mathematical Society meeting and European Congress of Mathematics, July 2000)
• Codes, matroids and trellises (Combinatorics2000, Gaeta, May 2000
• Quantum error correction (MathFIT meeting, QMW, 5 April 2000)
• J. J. Seidel (Seidel birthday meeting, Oisterwijk, August 1999)
• Permutations (Erdös memorial conference, Budapest, July 1999)
• Some bridges between codes and designs (23ACCMCC, Brisbane, July 1998)
• Some counting problems related to permutation groups (FPSAC, Toronto, June 1998)
• Hamming and Golay, Fisher and Bose (Reading colloquium, May 1998)
• An algebra related to enumeration (CALCA, Oakland, May 1998)

One-to-a-page:

• Discrete Mathematics in the undergraduate curriculum, 2003.
• Codes (London Mathematical Society Popular Lecture, June-July 2001)

Peter J. Cameron
8 July 2013