Recent seminar talks

• 24 November 2023. Lang’s Theorem, bilinear forms, trilinear forms and conjugacy. 7th Australian Algebra Conference. Monash University.
• 15 August 2023. On the power structure of finite groups. Algebra and Combinatorics Seminar. The University of Auckland.
• 7 June 2019. Theorem proving and program develpoment with Magma. CARMA Workshop on Computer-Aided Proof. The University of Newcastle.
• 6 December 2017. Hadamard difference sets of order 256. 5th International Combinatorics Conference. Monash University.
• 26 September 2017. Real reflection groups in a complex context. Buildings and Symmetry Workshop. Centre for the Mathematics of Symmetry and Computation. The University of Western Australia.
• 19 August 2016. Reflection subgroups of unitary reflection groups. Groups and Combinatorics Seminar. The University of Western Australia.
• 18 August 2016. The discovery of Janko's sporadic simple groups. Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium. The University of Western Australia.
• 30 September 2015. Janko's sporadic simple groups. 59th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society. Flinders University, Adelaide
• 20 June 2015. Janko's sporadic simple groups: a bit of history. CARMA Workshop on Mathematics and Computation, The University of Newcastle.

Lectures

• 9 October 2023 to 13 November 2023. Magma Mondays. The University of Sydney.
  1. Day 1. An Introduction to Magma. Exercises. Solutions.
  2. Day 2. Groups in Magma. Exercises. Solutions.
  3. Day 3. Algebras and Reductive Groups in Magma. Exercises. Solutions.
  4. Day 6. Noncommutative Algebras in Magma. Exercises.
• 7 to 13 January 2018. Character theory of finite groups. New Zealand Mathematics Research Institute. Summer Workshop, Nelson, New Zealand.
  1. Lecture 1. Essentials
  2. Lecture 2. The group algebra, divisibility and Burnside's p^aq^b theorem
  3. Lecture 3. Induced characters
  4. Lecture 4. The McKay Correspondence
• 12 to 17 February 2012. Magma mini-course. Symmetries of Discrete Objects. Conference and MAGMA Workshop, Queenstown, New Zealand.
  1. Lecture 1. Overview of Magma. Code: examples.m, chebyshev.m.
  2. Lecture 2. Coxeter groups and complex reflection groups. Code: RefGrps.m.