Our retirement party was last Tuesday. We had two very nice talks from people we had taught, and whose careers had perhaps been influenced by our teaching: Mia Tackney, who applies Rosemary’s methods for design of experiments (including Hasse diagrams) … Continue reading →| Peter Cameron's Blog
Officially, I retired (or strictly speaking, was made redundant) on 28 February. But I was still teaching and directing a student project until the end of May, as well as fighting against various problems caused by different parts of the … Continue reading →| Peter Cameron's Blog
Open any algebra textbook, and you will be told that a group consists of a set of elements with a binary function defined on it and satisfying a few axioms. But if you assume that is always the case, you … Continue reading →| Peter Cameron's Blog
I have just submitted to the arXiv a paper with this title. The idea was born during an evening walk around the campus of IIT Madras with Arun Kumar. I remarked that I would like to have a method o…| Peter Cameron's Blog
This week I am nominally at the Permutation Patterns conference. I find myself on the edge of the (very strong) community of Permutation Patterners; also, after a month away, I have lots of catching up to do; also, Bruce Sagan … Continue reading →| Peter Cameron's Blog
The next morning, after a very good hotel breakfast, we were checked out and in the lobby, waiting (with Cheryl Praeger) to be picked up and driven to the next event, a workshop on the Road Closure…| Peter Cameron's Blog