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		<title>A matroid / geometry problem and conjecture</title>
		<link>http://symomega.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/a-matroid-geometry-problem-and-conjecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 02:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Royle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finite Geometry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than let this blog die off due to lack of posts, I thought I&#8217;d write about a small but annoying problem that I&#8217;ve been thinking about recently, but without success, and a natural conjecture that has arisen from it. [Note: On some browsers there appears to be a sizing problem with the images WordPress [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=symomega.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9413728&#038;post=2892&#038;subd=symomega&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ternary Goldbach Conjecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 07:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Bamberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harald Helfgott, a friend of SymOmega, has only yesterday uploaded an article on the arxiv claiming a proof of the &#8220;Ternary Goldbach Conjecture&#8221;: Every odd integer is the sum of three primes. This is big news in number theory since it is one of the best results on the Goldbach Conjecture to date. The &#8220;Ternary [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=symomega.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9413728&#038;post=2952&#038;subd=symomega&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on the Merino-Welsh conjecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Royle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Graph Polynomials]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just posted a paper entitled &#8220;The Merino-Welsh Conjecture holds for Series-Parallel Graphs&#8221; to the arxiv which proves precisely the assertion given in the paper&#8217;s title.  This paper resulted from Steve Noble&#8217;s visit here last year, where we worked quite hard on this conjecture, and in fact I blogged about the problem then. The conjecture is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=symomega.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9413728&#038;post=2854&#038;subd=symomega&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Position at UWA</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Giudici</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A position here in the School of Maths and Stats at UWA has just been advertised.  It is a full-time continuing position as either an Assistant or Associate Professor (Level B/C)  and the school is looking for ` a generalist mathematician with excellent skills in teaching and learning to develop and deliver a range of first year [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=symomega.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9413728&#038;post=2851&#038;subd=symomega&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vacation research scholarship II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 08:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Royle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algebraic Graph Theory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[graph energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the summer break, John and I each supervised a 2nd year undergraduate student in a research project, and the previous post summarised Michael Martis&#8217; project. I supervised Melissa Lee, who learned about the energy of graphs and this is what she did Hello everyone! My name is Melissa Lee and I&#8217;m about to start [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=symomega.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9413728&#038;post=2818&#038;subd=symomega&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vacation research scholarship I</title>
		<link>http://symomega.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/vacation-research-scholarship-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Bamberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finite Geometry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maths activities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the summer break, Gordon and I each supervised a 2nd year undergraduate student in a research project. At UWA, the first course in group theory is in 3rd year, and we do not teach any combinatorics, so we needed to give each student a crash course before they could sink their teeth into a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=symomega.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9413728&#038;post=2799&#038;subd=symomega&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>37 ACCMCC</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Giudici</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing will be held here at UWA from the 9th to 13th of December. Put the date in your diary now and start looking for cheap flights to Perth. The conference webpage is available here, where you can find the exciting lineup of invited speakers that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=symomega.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9413728&#038;post=2795&#038;subd=symomega&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Centenary of the Chromatic Polynomial</title>
		<link>http://symomega.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/centenary-of-the-chromatic-polynomial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 03:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Royle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chromatic polynomial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chromatic roots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of this blog (hi mum!) will already know that chromatic polynomials are one of my favourite research topics, and one on which I have made several posts. Well, when I was in Sydney last year, my old friend Graham Farr pointed out that the cusp of 2012/2013 is the centenary of the chromatic [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=symomega.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9413728&#038;post=2672&#038;subd=symomega&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Epijournals</title>
		<link>http://symomega.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/epijournals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Bamberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Gowers has just announced an exciting new development where it seems that maths is leading the way into a new era of refereed publication. The idea (as I can fathom) is that a journal is a certified front for refereed articles posted on the arxiv. So for example, let&#8217;s suppose my fictitious journal &#8212; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=symomega.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9413728&#038;post=2665&#038;subd=symomega&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two postdoctoral positions</title>
		<link>http://symomega.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/two-postdoctoral-positions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Bamberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We again have two new postdoctoral positions in the Centre for the Mathematics of Symmetry and Computation here at UWA, funded by two Australian Research Council Discovery Project grants. Both are two-year positions and in the field of finite permutation groups and graph symmetry. One position is on a grant held by Michael Giudici and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=symomega.wordpress.com&#038;blog=9413728&#038;post=2638&#038;subd=symomega&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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