Simon Smith was plenary one-hour speaker at Groups St Andrews 2022 in Newcastle UK
The Groups St Andrews conferences started in 1981 and have grown to be one of the largest group theory conferences on earth. The conferences take place roughly every 4 years; … Continue reading
One day conference on “Groups acting on trees” to take place at the University of Lincoln on 9th December 2022
A one day conference will take place at the University of Lincoln on Friday 9th December (as an online/in-person hybrid meeting). The theme will be: “Groups acting on trees”, and … Continue reading
Joint research group between Lincoln, Lancaster, Royal Holloway, and Cambridge won an LMS grant
The London Mathematical Society joint research group “Functor categories for groups” has successfully been awarded a grant to continue its activities in 2022/23. “Functor categories for groups” is a London … Continue reading
Simon M Smith spoke in the Strukturtheorie-Seminar at the Institut für Diskrete Mathematik at TU Graz in Austria
Simon gave a talk in the Strukturtheorie-Seminar at the Institut für Diskrete Mathematik at TU Graz in Austria on 2nd December 2021. He spoke about his structure theorem for infinite … Continue reading
Simon M Smith was an invited speaker and participant at the (online) Banff International Research Station in August 2021
The week-long meeting was on tdlc groups via group actions, and Simon spoke about his joint work with Colin Reid on groups acting on trees with property P. The Banff … Continue reading
Simon M Smith was an invited speaker at Groups in Madrid 2021
Simon M Smith was one of the invited speakers at the 2-day workshop “Groups in Madrid 2021”, held 25th-26th November 2021 in Madrid, Spain. He spoke about his joint work … Continue reading
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
Charlotte Scott Centre for Algebra 