Péter Pál Pálfy (P cubed to his many friends) is 70; his birthday was celebrated by a Group Theory Day at the Rényi Institute in Budapest. The morning was devoted to talks by three of P cubed’s students. First off … Continue reading →| Peter Cameron's Blog
Eucarpia was an ancient city in Phrygia, near the source of the river Meander whose name has given us the word for an indirect route. Eucarpia took its name from the fertile district in which it li…| Peter Cameron's Blog
As part of accompanying Rosemary to her conferences, I have just spent four days at the Thirteenth Working Seminar on Statistical Methods in Variety Testing, at COBORU at Sŀupia Wielka, Poland. COBORU is an acronym for a Polish phrase which … Continue reading →| Peter Cameron's Blog
Every so often, I go to my WordPress blog and read a random item, then step forward or back to get a picture of what was going on in my life then. Some of this is real feelgood stuff, such as the s…| 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
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
