MUSIC

Our Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics ran, what I think, was an excellent idea; to support “seed” projects of each of the “critical mass research groups” of the faculty. So in December, we put forward a plan to do a few interesting things with the funds given to us by the faculty, that would give returns. One of these was our retreat in February, which we already knew would give back more than was put in, as we had been doing this for a few years already. The other more significant expense was to set up a meeting between us and the Monash group of combinatorialists. This meeting has also coincided with the visits of Peter Cameron and Rosemary Bailey, who are the “professors-at-large” supported by the seed funding. So Ian Wanless, Graham Farr, Kerri Morgan, Daniel Horsely, and Darcy Best flew over from Melbourne and have been in Perth this week, and we have had talks and discussions over the last three days. The title of the meeting has now officially been coined “MUSIC” after a suggestion by Peter Cameron: Monash UWA Symposium In Combinatorics.