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3 posts published by Peter Cameron during August 2025| Peter Cameron's Blog
3 posts published by Peter Cameron during August 2025| Peter Cameron's Blog
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
Not too much to say about the final leg of more than a month of travelling. On Friday morning, after the conference was over, we had breakfast and checked out, and then João took us and Cheryl Prae…| 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
4 posts published by Peter Cameron during July 2025| Peter Cameron's Blog
We piled into the two cars and headed north to the World Heritage city of Évora for the third conference on Theoretical and Computational Algebra. Arriving in my room, the welcome message on the television informed me that the temperature … Continue reading →| 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
My talk at the Évora conference was about the abstract/concrete dimension of mathematics, illustrated by examples from my work. In the course of preparing it, I came across the following, from the book Mathematics, Poetry and Beauty, by Ron Aharoni: … 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
10 posts published by Peter Cameron during June 2025| Peter Cameron's Blog
Nearly ten years ago, I spent a month in the town of Aveiro, in Portugal. It was a very intense, hard-workking month; with Maria Elisa Fernandes and Dimitri Leemans, I was working towards what we named the “Aveiro Theorem”, which … Continue reading →| Peter Cameron's Blog
The next four days were devoted to the International Conference on Discrete Mathematics (ICDM25), at CUSAT in Kochi. Of course, it is virtually impossible to write up a detailed diary while at a ve…| Peter Cameron's Blog
