LARA seminar by Valentina Iusa
The first LARA seminar of this academic year was held on the 24th of October and was given by Valentina Iusa. She spoke about her research on the nilpotency class … 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
Anitha Thillaisundaram gives a pure mathematics colloquium at Lancaster University
On Wednesday the 18th of October 2017, Anitha Thillaisundaram spoke on branch groups at the Pure Mathematics Colloquium of Lancaster University.
Conference “Topics on Groups and their Representations”
Sandro Mattarei gave an invited talk at the conference “Topics on Groups and their Representations”, which was held in Gargnano sul Garda, Italy, on October 9-11, 2017. He talked about “Closed forms for … Continue reading
New Research Highlights brochure
Originally posted on Maths & Physics News:
The new “Research Highlights 2015–2017” brochure has now been printed. This booklet contains brief descriptions of some of the best achievements of the…
School of Maths and Physics at Lincoln Cathedral’s Organ Celebration
This staff-student-family-and-friends venture took us to Lincoln Cathedral on the evening of Friday the 13th. Our group, spanning from a 13-month-old to grandparents, witnessed a wonderful concert by the organists … 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
School of Maths and Physics contributes 120 miles to the Walk A Million campaign in Lincolnshire
On Saturday the 30th of September 2017, the students and staff of the School of Mathematics and Physics hiked a 10-mile section of the Viking Trail, from Navenby to Lincoln, … Continue reading
Visit by Jack Button
Dr Jack Button (Cambridge) visited the School of Mathematics and Physics on the 27th of September 2017. He gave a talk “Finitely generated linear groups — basic concepts and some examples” … Continue reading
Call for new problems and update for Kourovka Notebook
The preparation of the new 19th edition of the “Kourovka Notebook” in underway. Everybody is welcome to propose new problems to be included in the new edition. Problems may “belong” to those … Continue reading
New paper accepted in Finite Fields and Their Applications
The paper by Sandro Mattarei and Marco Pizzato, Generalizations of self-reciprocal polynomials, has been accepted for publication in Finite Fields and Their Applications. (See also https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.07677.pdf.) Abstract: A formula for the number of monic … Continue reading
New year – new look
Celebrating 3rd year of our blog and of our Algebra Group we made an uplift of our blog visual style from a more traditional theme Sandbox 1.6.2 to a slicker and … Continue reading
Annual Charlotte Scott Lecture in Mathematics
Originally posted on Maths & Physics News:
Indra’s Pearls: A mathematical adventure a public lecture by Professor Caroline Series FRS University of Warwick; LMS President-Designate 2017 Wednesday, 7th of February…
New result of collaboration of mathematicians of Lincoln and Brasilia
During his recent trip to Brazil Evgeny Khukhro completed a new joint paper with Prof Pavel Shumyatsky (Univ. of Brasilia) “Finite groups with Engel sinks of bounded rank” (available on ArXiv). … Continue reading
Visit to Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf
In July, Anitha Thillaisundaram visited the University of Duesseldorf and made significant progress on her joint paper “The normal Hausdorff spectrum of pro-p groups” with Benjamin Klopsch and Amaia Zugadi-Reizabal. … 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
Charlotte Scott Centre for Algebra 