NEWS
2024
6th March. Seminar in Aberdeen. Slides.
3rd June to 7th June. Algebraic structures in the Yang-Baxter equation. Website.
12th June to 14th June. Conference at Newcastle University.
19th June to 21st June. MFPS Oxford. Special session in honour of Phil Scott.
6th March. Seminar in Aberdeen. Slides.
3rd June to 7th June. Algebraic structures in the Yang-Baxter equation. Website.
12th June to 14th June. Conference at Newcastle University.
19th June to 21st June. MFPS Oxford. Special session in honour of Phil Scott.
24th June to 28th June.
Visit by Tim Stokes.
2023
February 16th. CUNY.
Higher
dimensional generalizations of the Thompson groups via
higher rank graphs.
May 18th. Zoom talk in Warsaw.
13th June. PhD defence by Alvin Lepik, University of Tartu `On Morita equivalence of semigroups'.
June 19th to 23rd. Algebra, symmetry and C*-algebras, Bayes Centre, Edinburgh. Website.
Organizers: Nadia Larsen (Oslo), Mark V. Lawson (Heriot-Watt), Aidan Sims (Wollongong), Alina Vdovina (CCNY), Mike Whittaker (Glasgow).
The invited speakers are: Alejandra Garrido Angulo (Madrid), Francesca Arici (Leiden), Jim Belk (Glasgow), Kevin Aguyar Brix (Glasgow), Chris Bruce (Glasgow),
Becky Armstrong (Muenster), Fabienne Chouraqui (Haifa), Lisa O. Clark (Wellington), Tristan Bice, (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Jamie Gabe, (Southern Denmark), Richard Garner, (Macquarie),
Elizabeth Gillaspy (Montana), Victoria Gould (York, UK), Chris Heunen (Edinburgh), Brita Nucinkis (Royal Holloway), Enrique Pardo (Cadiz), Camila F. Sehnem (Wellington), Jack Spielberg (Arizona), Benjamin Steinberg (CCNY), Yuhei Suzuki (Hokkaido).
This is supported by a grant of 24,000 pounds from ICMS itself, 1,275 pounds from the EMS (to support Scottish PhD students) and 2,975 pounds from the GMJT (to support Scottish PhD students).
July 2nd to 7th. Semigroup meeting in Pocinho. My slides are here.
10th Dec to 14th Dec. PhD defence at the University of Stockholm.
May 18th. Zoom talk in Warsaw.
13th June. PhD defence by Alvin Lepik, University of Tartu `On Morita equivalence of semigroups'.
June 19th to 23rd. Algebra, symmetry and C*-algebras, Bayes Centre, Edinburgh. Website.
Organizers: Nadia Larsen (Oslo), Mark V. Lawson (Heriot-Watt), Aidan Sims (Wollongong), Alina Vdovina (CCNY), Mike Whittaker (Glasgow).
The invited speakers are: Alejandra Garrido Angulo (Madrid), Francesca Arici (Leiden), Jim Belk (Glasgow), Kevin Aguyar Brix (Glasgow), Chris Bruce (Glasgow),
Becky Armstrong (Muenster), Fabienne Chouraqui (Haifa), Lisa O. Clark (Wellington), Tristan Bice, (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague), Jamie Gabe, (Southern Denmark), Richard Garner, (Macquarie),
Elizabeth Gillaspy (Montana), Victoria Gould (York, UK), Chris Heunen (Edinburgh), Brita Nucinkis (Royal Holloway), Enrique Pardo (Cadiz), Camila F. Sehnem (Wellington), Jack Spielberg (Arizona), Benjamin Steinberg (CCNY), Yuhei Suzuki (Hokkaido).
This is supported by a grant of 24,000 pounds from ICMS itself, 1,275 pounds from the EMS (to support Scottish PhD students) and 2,975 pounds from the GMJT (to support Scottish PhD students).
July 2nd to 7th. Semigroup meeting in Pocinho. My slides are here.
10th Dec to 14th Dec. PhD defence at the University of Stockholm.
2022
5th January. K. S. S. Nambooripad Endowment Lectures. Groupoids in inverse semigroup theory. The sides for my talk are here.
10th January. External PhD examiner University of York.
11th January. University of York. Constructing groups and groupoids from higher rank graphs.
28th March to 31st March. ICSAOT 2022. International Conference on Semigroups, Algebras and Operator Theory.
4th May. Internal Examiner for a PhD thesis.
14th May to 15th May. AMS Spring Western Sectional meeting.
31st May. Mathematics Department of Essex University Advisory Board.
17th June. Ternary Mathematics Day.
26th August. PhD Opponent at Tartu University, Estonia.
12th September until 2nd December. Semester 1 teaching.
31st October to 11th November. Visit by Ryoma Sin'ya of Akita University.
8th December. Seminar in Glasgow.
2021
18th March. The universal Boolean inverse semigroup presented by the abstract Cuntz-Krieger relations, UK Virtual Operator Algebra Seminar.
April. External PhD examiner University of Sydney.
17th May. AF inverse monoids. Centre for
Mathematics and its Applications, The New University of
Lisbon.
3rd July to 14th July. Khansar School on Graph Theory, University of Isfahan, Iran.
My lectures:
1. Inverse semigroups.
2. Boolean inverse monoids.
3. Non-commutative Stone duality.
4. MV-algebras and Boolean inverse monoids.
16th July. Boolean inverse monoids and MV-algebras. University of Porto.
15th December. MAXIMALS talk. Groups and groupoids from higher rank graphs.
3rd July to 14th July. Khansar School on Graph Theory, University of Isfahan, Iran.
My lectures:
1. Inverse semigroups.
2. Boolean inverse monoids.
3. Non-commutative Stone duality.
4. MV-algebras and Boolean inverse monoids.
16th July. Boolean inverse monoids and MV-algebras. University of Porto.
15th December. MAXIMALS talk. Groups and groupoids from higher rank graphs.
2020
February 26, Wed. Seminar at the
University of York. Slides.
COVID-19 affected everything this year.
21st May. Non-commutative Stone dualities, Western Sydney University, Abendseminar.
15th September. The polycyclic inverse monoids and the Thompson groups revisited. Centre for Maths, University of Coimbra.
15th October. The polycyclic inverse monoids and the Thompson groups revisited, University of Ottawa.
COVID-19 affected everything this year.
21st May. Non-commutative Stone dualities, Western Sydney University, Abendseminar.
15th September. The polycyclic inverse monoids and the Thompson groups revisited. Centre for Maths, University of Coimbra.
15th October. The polycyclic inverse monoids and the Thompson groups revisited, University of Ottawa.
2019
December 9th to 12th. Invited speaker to the International Conference on Semigroups and Applications (ICSAA-2019) at Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India.
15th, 16th and 17th July. Strategic Workshop (run by Nadia Larsen, Aidan Sims, Alina Vdovina, Mark V Lawson) entitled Higher rank graphs: geometry, symmetry, dynamics.
The draft website for this workshop is here.
7th to the 13th July. Category theory 2019.
24th to 30th June. Workshop in Coimbra, Portugal. Invited speaker. My lecture is here.
7th May to 11th May. Lisbon. Visit to CAMGSD and member of the Agregacao Committee of Dr. Pedro Resende.
2018
10th July to 16th July.
International conference on semigroups in honour of Maria
Szendrei. University of Lisbon. Slides.24th June to 28th June. Visiting Pedro Resende at the University of Lisbon as a member of the PhD jury for Juan Pablo Quijano Lotero.
29th March to 30th April. Visiting David Janin at the Universite de Bordeaux.
The following are some detailed, but still quite rough, notes to accompany my lectures:
0. Introduction.
1. Classical Stone duality.
2. Etale groupoids.
3. Inverse semigroups.
4. Non-commutative Stone duality. (To be written).
19th to 22nd March. Workshop on combining viewpoints in quantum theory. ICMS Edinburgh. My slides.
8th February. Analysis seminar. University of Glasgow. My slides.
5th February. NBGGT. ICMS. My slides.
2017
4th December to 8th December. Facets of irreversibility: inverse semigroups, groupoids and operator algebras.
University of Oslo, Norway.
25th September. PhD Jury for Love Forsberg, Uppsala University, Sweden.
17th July to 21st July. Interactions between semigroups and operator algebras, University of Newcastle, Australia.
26th June to 30th June. ICMS Workshop. Applications of operator algebras: order, disorder and symmetry.
Supported by ICMS and the LMS.
21st June. Two lectures to pupils (and teachers) from Inveralmond Community Highschool Livingston.
2016
Lecture to WHEC on Eulerian and edge-traceable graphs, 22nd November.
MAXIMALS seminar Heriot-Watt University, 2nd November. Groups, monoids and groupoids.
University of Essex, Department of Mathematics, 29th and 30th September,
to attend a meeting of the Essex mathematical Sciences Advisory Board.
Universite de Bordeaux, member of the jury for Etienne Dubourg's defence of his PhD.
10th July to 13th July.
My talk
CSA 2016, University of Lisbon, 20th to 24th June 2016.
My talk
(This is the Director's Cut of my talk and therefore contains lots of bonus material).
Field's Workshop, University of Ottawa, 1st to 4th June 2016.
Primer on inverse semigroups (basic background lecture notes).
Talk 1
Talk2
Groups in Galway 2016, 20th to 21st May 2016.
The slides for my talk are here.
CLAP Edinburgh Informatics, 14th April, 2016.
SOAR University of Aberdeen, 16th to 17th March, 2016.
The slides for my talk are here.
Dynamical Systems for Aperiodicity Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon,
4th to 8th January 2016. The slides for my talk are here.
2015
Research visit to York, 2nd December, 2015.
The slides for my talk are here.
Universite Paris 13, 14th March to 27th March 2015 working with Laurent Poinsot.
Workshop of aperiodic order, 5th to 9th January 2015, Leicester.
2014
Research in groups at ICMS
6th to 26th July 2014
Ganna Kudryavtseva (Ljubljana), Daniel Lenz (Jena), Pedro Resende (Lisbon).
Reseach visit to CAUL Lisbon 22nd June to 3rd July 2014.
Slides for three lectures here.
Workshop on the extended family of R. Thompson's groups,
St. Andrews 26th to 30th May 2014.
The slides for my mini-course may be found here
2013
Research visit to York on 16th December 2013.
The slides for my talk are here
Visit to CAUL in Lisbon 1st December to 8th December 2013.
The slides for my talk are here
A tribute to David Rees
This is the full version of an article that will
appear in an edited form in Semigroup Forum.
The authors were Liam O'Carroll, Sarah Rees and myself.
Seminar in York on 22nd May 2013.
The slides for my talk are here
Seminar in York on 20th February 2013
The slides for my talk are here
Seminar in Aberdeen on 1st February 2013
The slides for my talk are here
Edinburgh workshop on representations of semigroups 2013
2012
Visit to CAUL in Lisbon 25th November to 1st December 2012
The slides for my talk are here
Uppsala semigroups and applications 2012
The slides for my talk are here