Simon Smith gave a talk at the 2021 British Mathematical Colloquium
This year’s British Mathematical Colloquium was supposed to be held at the University of Glasgow, but because of COVID restrictions it was held virtually in Glasgow. The organisers did an … Continue reading
On 21st August, Simon gave a research talk at the University of Newcastle in Australia. Over Zoom.
On Friday (21st August 2020), Simon gave a research talk at the Zero-Dimensional Symmetry Seminar, hosted by the University of Newcastle in NSW Australia. Because of COVID, the talk was … Continue reading
Simon Smith gave the Pure Mathematics Colloquium at the University of St Andrews
Lincoln has one of the newest mathematics programmes in the country, and St Andrews has one of the oldest. On 14th March, Simon travelled from Lincoln to St Andrews to … Continue reading
Simon Smith was an invited speaker at the ICMS in Edinburgh
In September, the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences held the workshop From permutation groups to model theory. It was a workshop inspired by the research interests of Dugald Macpherson, in honour of … Continue reading
Trees, Dynamics and Locally Compact Groups in Düsselforf
Last week a contingent from the Charlotte Scott Centre for Algebra at the University of Lincoln went to Düsseldorf, for the conference Trees, Dynamics and Locally Compact Groups that was … Continue reading
Sandro Mattarei unicycling in the recent snow
This is the inaugural video on our new youtube channel: Algebra-in-Lincoln
Simon Smith gave a lecture at Royal Holloway, University of London
On 29th November 2017, Simon Smith visited Royal Holloway, University of London and gave a seminar on his research to the mathematics department. Here he is in front of Royal … Continue reading
Simon Smith gave a talk at the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium
Simon Smith visited Adrien Le Boudec and Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium from 26th November until 30th November 2017. While there he gave a … Continue reading
Simon Smith gave a seminar at the University of Newcastle
Simon Smith gave at talk at the Algebra and Geometry Seminar at the University of Newcastle on Tuesday 21st November. His talk was on his recent research into the structure … Continue reading
Simon Smith gives a lecture at the University of Cambridge Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar
On 18th October, Simon Smith gave a talk at the Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar at the University of Cambridge, on his recent results about the structure of profinite groups … Continue reading
Dr Florian Lehner (Univ. of Warwick) visits University of Lincoln
Florian Lehner from the University of Warwick visited the University of Lincoln School of Mathematics and Physics this week, to work on a joint research project with Simon Smith. … Continue reading
Dr Stephen P. Glasby from the University of Western Australia visited the University of Lincoln
Dr Stephen P. Glasby from the University of Western Australia’s Centre for the Mathematics of Symmetry and Computation visited Dr Simon Smith at the University of Lincoln School of Mathematics … Continue reading
Industrial and Financial Mathematics module in Lincoln
Mathematics students in their second year gave great feedback on their Industrial and Financial Mathematics module. This module is intended to showcase some of the industrial applications of mathematics, with … Continue reading
AMS Special Session at Hunter College, City University of New York
The Special Session on Infinite Permutation Groups, Totally Disconnected Locally Compact Groups and Geometric Group Theory organised by Simon Smith (University of Lincoln) and Delaram Kahrobaei (City University of New York) took … Continue reading
Simon Smith and Delaram Kahrobaei are organising a conference in New York City with the American Mathematical Society
Simon Smith (University of Lincoln, UK) and Delaram Kahrobaei (City University of New York, USA) are organising a conference on infinite permutation groups, totally disconnected locally compact groups, and geometric … Continue reading
Simon Smith was at the Banff International Research Station last week
Last week, Simon Smith was at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) in Canada, where he was an invited speaker at a meeting about permutation groups. BIRS is an isolated station … Continue reading