Here is a list of talks that I have given (or will be giving soon), and links to slides, notes or abstracts, if available. (Some of the talks were "chalk-and-talk"
seminars, for which no abstract needed to be provided.)
| Date |
Location |
Title |
| 30th January 2003 |
London Intercollegiate Postgraduate Seminar (LIPS), Imperial College |
Distance-Transitive Graphs |
| 23rd February 2003 |
Combinatorics Study Group, QMUL |
Decoding the Mathieu Group M12 |
| 27th March 2003 |
14th Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference, Nottingham |
Distinct Weight Codes |
| 4th July 2003 |
19th British Combinatorial Conference, Bangor |
(slides) Decoding the Mathieu Group M12 |
| 28th July 2003 |
1st NEPGPMW, University of York |
(slides) Decoding the Mathieu Group M12 |
| 13th November 2003 |
QuIPS (Queen Mary Internal Postgraduate Seminar), QMUL |
Permutation groups, error-correcting codes and covering designs |
| 27th November 2003 |
QuIPS, QMUL |
Structure of finite fields |
| 13th February 2004 |
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| 20th February 2004 |
Combinatorics Study Group, QMUL |
(notes) Distance-transitive (and distance-regular) graphs (3 parts!) |
| 5th March 2004 |
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| 25th March 2004 |
6th Postgraduate Group Theory Conference, Warwick |
Permutation groups, error-correcting codes and covering designs |
| 21st April 2004 |
15th Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference, QMUL |
Permutation groups, error-correcting codes and covering designs |
| 28th June 2004 |
2nd PoPMiNE, Newcastle |
(slides) Error-correcting codes from permutation groups |
| 7th October 2004 |
QuIPS, QMUL |
The Legend of the Lost Thesis |
| 3rd December 2004 |
Combinatorics Study Group, QMUL |
13/8 |
| 17th January 2005 |
Pure Mathematics Seminar, QMUL |
Error-correcting codes from permutation groups |
| 21st March 2005 |
16th Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference, Oxford |
(slides) Primitive Elements and Uncoverings |
| 1st April 2005 |
Combinatorics Study Group, QMUL |
(slides) Permutation groups, error-correcting codes and uncoverings |
| 6th April 2005 |
ALCOMA05, Thurnau, Germany |
(slides) Permutation groups, error-correcting codes and uncoverings |
| 13th July 2005 |
20th British Combinatorial Conference, Durham |
(slides) Permutation groups, error-correcting codes and uncoverings |
| 5th August 2005 |
Groups St Andrews in St Andrews |
The "single orbit conjecture" for uncoverings-by-bases |
| 17th November 2005 |
QuIPS, QMUL |
Graph decompositions and uncoverings |
| 12th May 2006 |
Ottawa-Carleton
Discrete Mathematics Day(s),
Carleton University, Ottawa |
(slides) Error-correcting codes from permutation groups |
| 16th May 2006 |
Workshop on Covering Arrays,
Carleton University, Ottawa |
(slides) Uncoverings-by-bases for permutation groups and matroids |
| 6th November 2006 |
Pure Mathematics Seminar, QMUL |
Distance enumerators for permutation groups |
| 30th March 2007 |
Combinatorics Study Group, QMUL |
Some cases of the single-orbit conjecture |
| 12th July 2007 |
21st British Combinatorial Conference, Reading |
(slides) Uncoverings-by-bases for graphic matroids |
| 23rd October 2007 |
Ottawa-Carleton Algebra Seminar |
On the single-orbit conjecture for uncoverings-by-bases |
| 2nd November 2007 |
Ottawa-Carleton Combinatorics & Optimization Seminar |
Coverings and uncoverings on structures |
| 17th April 2008 |
Caltech Combinatorics Seminar, California Institute of Technology |
Permutation groups, codes and the single-orbit conjecture |
| 1st May 2008 |
Ottawa Mathematics Conference, University of Ottawa |
(slides) Distance enumerators of permutation groups |
| 11th May 2008 |
Ottawa-Carleton Graph Theory Workshop, Carleton University |
(slides) Uncoverings-by-bases for graphic matroids |
23rd May 2008 |
Ontario Combinatorics Workshop, University of Waterloo |
(slides) Hamiltonian decompositions of complete k-uniform hypergraphs |
| 23rd June 2008 |
Combinatorics 2008, Costermano, Italy |
(slides) Hamiltonian decompositions of complete k-uniform hypergraphs |
| 14th November 2008 |
Ottawa–Carleton Discrete Mathematics Seminar |
Base size, metric dimension and other stories |
| 6th December 2008 |
Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, Ottawa
(session on "Coding and Cryptography") |
(slides) Distance enumerators of permutation groups |
| 8th January 2009 |
Groups, Combinatorics and Computation 2009, University of Western Australia |
(slides) Separation defects, bases and the single-orbit conjecture |
| 20th January 2009 |
Pure Mathematics Seminar, University of New South Wales |
Packing spanning trees in graphs and bases in matroids |
| 28th January 2009 |
Two-day Algebra Workshop, University of Auckland |
Base size, metric dimension and other stories |
| 4th February 2009 |
Discrete Math Seminar, Portland State University |
Packing spanning trees in graphs and bases in matroids |
| 10th February 2009 |
Discrete Math Seminar, Simon Fraser University |
Packing spanning trees in graphs and bases in matroids |
| 20th February 2009 |
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, University of Regina |
Base size, metric dimension and other stories |
| 6th March 2009 |
Combinatorics & Optimization Seminar, Carleton |
Packing spanning trees in graphs and bases in matroids |
| 27th April 2009 |
AMS Sectional Meeting (session on association schemes), Worcester Polytechnic
Institute |
(slides) Base size, metric dimension and other stories |
| 23rd May 2009 |
Ottawa–Carleton Discrete Mathematics Days, University of
Ottawa. |
(slides) Bases for automorphism groups of graphs |
| 28th May 2009 |
CanaDAM 2009, CRM, Montreal |
(slides) On packing bases in matroids |
| 7th June 2009 |
Canadian Mathematical
Society Summer Meeting, St. John's
(session on "Algebraic Combinatorics") |
(slides) Metric dimension of distance-regular graphs |
| 6th July 2009 |
22nd British Combinatorial Conference, St Andrews |
(slides) Metric dimension of distance-regular graphs |
| 2nd November 2009 |
Mathematics seminar, University of Winnipeg |
Metric dimension and permutation groups |
| 27th November 2009 |
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, University of Regina |
Hamiltonian decompositions of hypergraphs |
| 15th February 2010 |
Combinatorics Seminar, Memorial University of Newfoundland |
Hamiltonian decompositions of hypergraphs |
| 24th March 2010 |
Combinatorics, Groups, Algorithms, and Complexity 2010, Ohio State University |
(slides) Metric dimension of distance-regular graphs |
| 15th May 2010 |
Ottawa–Carleton Discrete
Mathematics Days 2010, Carleton University |
(slides) Generalized covering designs and clique coverings |
| 4th June 2010 |
Combinatorics Study Group, Queen Mary, University of London |
Generalised covering designs and clique coverings |
| 28th June 2010 |
Combinatorics 2010, Verbania, Italy |
(slides) Generalized covering designs |
| 4th December 2010 |
Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, Vancouver
(session on "Theory and Applications of Sequences
and Arrays") |
(slides) Generalized covering and packing designs |
| 11th March 2011 |
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium, University of
Regina |
Resolving sets in graphs in certain association schemes |
| 30th April 2011 |
Prairie Network for Research in the Mathematical Sciences, University of Regina |
(slides) The metric dimension problem in geometry, combinatorics and algebra |
| 7th May 2011 |
Ontario Combinatorics Workshop, Ryerson University |
(slides) A matrix method for resolving sets in Johnson graphs |
| 13th May 2011 |
Ottawa-Carleton Discrete Mathematics Days 2011, University of Ottawa |
(slides) Resolving sets for incidence graphs (without the infamous mistake) |
| 1 June 2011 |
CanaDAM 2011, University of Victoria |
(slides) A matrix method for resolving sets in Johnson graphs |
| 3 June 2011 |
CanaDAM 2011, University of Victoria |
(slides) Generalized covering designs as hypergraph covers |
| 5 July 2011 |
23rd
British Combinatorial Conference, University of Exeter |
(slides) Resolving sets for incidence graphs |
| 19 July 2011 |
Graphs, Designs and Algebraic
Combinatorics, University of Regina |
(slides) Recent (and not-so-recent) results on metric
dimension of distance-regular graphs |
| 1 August 2011 |
Algebra seminar, University of Auckland |
(slides) The metric dimension problem in geometry, algebra and combinatorics |
| 12th December 2011 |
Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting, Toronto
(session on "Designs, Factorizations & Coverings") |
(slides) Some observations about covering arrays and VC-dimension |