Paula Lins de Araujo was one of the main speakers at an international spring school in Germany Lincoln algebraist Paula Lins de Araujo was invited to be one of the four main lecturers at a pure mathematics event in Germany, at the University of Göttingen. The event was called RTG2491 Spring School “Zeta functions, dynamics and analytic number theory” was meant to introduce young researchers (PhDs and early career Postdocs) to different aspects of zeta functions. Paula gave a series of lectures on Dirichlet series and zeta functions of groups. Abstract: The ..read more

Grant of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Lincoln algebraist Dr Paula Macedo Lins de Araujo jointly with Dr Thaís Fernanda Mendes Monis (São Paulo State University) and the student Gabriel Cassimiro Pereira (São Paulo State University), have successfully secured an international research bursary. This bursary will support a one-month visit of Gabriel to the Charlotte Scott Centre for Algebra at Lincoln to conduct a research project in Geometric Group Theory under Paula’s supervision ..read more

Moritz Petschick gave a virtual talk in our Algebra seminar On March 13th 2024, we had the pleasure to welcome Dr Moritz Petschick (Bielefeld University, Germany) virtualy to the Algebra Seminar of the University of Lincoln’s Charlotte Scott Research Centre for Algebra. Moritz spoke about his work on Engel branch groups ..read more

Dr Matteo Vannacci visited the University of Lincoln in March 2024 Dr Matteo Vannacci giving a talk at the Algebra Seminar In March 2024, Dr Matteo Vannacci (University of the Basque Country, Bilbao) visited the University of Lincoln’s Charlotte Scott Research Centre for Algebra. He gave a talk at the Lincoln Algebra seminar on 20 March. Dr Vannacci is one of the world’s experts on hereditarily just infinite groups. He was visiting Lincoln to work with two academics from the Charlotte Scott Research Centre for Algebra: Assoc. Prof. Simon Smith and Dr Ged Corob Cook. Dr Vannacci’s visit ..read more

Grant of the London Mathematical Society Congratulations to Dr Yuri Santos Rego! He has successfully secured a grant of the London Mathematical Society under the “Celebrating New Appointments” scheme, which will support a conference “Trending Aspects in Group Cohomology”, preliminarily planned to be held in Lincoln on 2–3 July 2024.  Further information about the conference will follow ..read more

Journal of Algebra editorial board meeting at British Mathematical Colloquium Evgeny Khukhro will take part in the Journal of Algebra editorial board meeting at British Mathematical Colloquium in Manchester, 17–21 June 2024. Editors of Journal of Algebra are supported by the publisher Elsevier for face-to-face meetings, which are organized once in 2–3 years, usually at significant mathematical conferences ..read more

Algebra Seminar: Talk by Gemma Crowe (Heriot-Watt University) On Wednesday 28th of February 2024 the Charlotte Scott Centre for Algebra had the pleasure to welcome Gemma Crowe (Heriot-Watt University) for a seminar about her work on twisted conjugacy decision problem. Title: Twisted conjugacy in dihedral Artin groups Abstract: In 2009, Bogopolski, Martino and Ventura proved an equivalence between conjugacy in group extensions and twisted conjugacy. Using their construction, one can find both decidable and undecidable results for the conjugacy problem in larger classes of groups, b ..read more

Research visit to Lincoln: Ilaria Castellano (Bielefeld University), Bianca Marchionna (Universities of Milano-Bicocca and Bielefeld), and Brita Nucinkis (Royal Holloway, University of London) From 12th to 16th February 2024, the Charlotte Scott Research Centre for Algebra had the pleasure of welcoming Ilaria Castellano (Bielefeld University, Germany), Bianca Marchionna (Universities of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) and Bielefeld (Germany)), and Brita Nucinkis (Royal Holloway, University of London) for a very productive research visit. Jointly with our own Yuri Santos Rego ..read more

Simon Smith was plenary/keynote speaker at an international conference in New Zealand Simon in front of the University of Auckland’s iconic clock tower Associate Professor Simon Smith was invited to be a plenary speaker (keynote) at a pure mathematics conference in New Zealand, at the University of Auckland. The conference was “Symmetries of Discrete Objects”, and attracted world experts from group theory and combinatorics from around the world. Simon talked about his work with Dr Colin Reid: the two researchers have developed a new theory for groups acting on trees, called the Theory o ..read more

Bianca Marchionna (Bielefeld University/Milano-Bicocca) visited Charlotte Scott Centre for Algebra Bianca Marchionna (Bielefeld University/Milano-Bicocca) has visited the Charlotte Scott Centre for Algebra during the week starting on the 12th of February for a research visit. During her stay, Bianca presented her work at our algebra seminar and had several discussions with Lincoln algebraists on questions of mutual interest. Talk title: Double-coset zeta functions and groups acting on trees Abstract: The double-coset zeta functions have been recently introduced by I. Castellano, G. Chi ..read more