Peter Cameron's 60th birthday conference

From Higman-Sims to Urysohn: a random walk through groups, graphs, designs, and spaces

23–26 August 2007
Ambleside, England

The following gave invited talks at the meeting.

• Prof. R. A. Bailey (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
  
  Crested products
• Prof. P. J. Cameron (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
  
  From Higman-Sims to Urysohn: a random walk through groups, graphs, designs, and spaces
• Prof. P. Diaconis (Stanford University, USA)
  
  Some different uses for block designs
• Dr D. M. Evans (University of East Anglia, UK)
  
  Amalgamation constructions in infinite permutation groups and model theory
• Prof. J. Hall (Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA)
  
  Orthogonal geometry over the field with two elements
• Dr C. Y. Ku (Caltech, USA)
  
  Intersecting permutations and set partitions
• Prof. E. Lander (MIT and Harvard, USA)
  
  The human genome: an asymmetric design
• Prof. J. Nešetřil (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
  
  Many faces of dualities: complexity, order and universality
• Dr P. M. Neumann (Oxford, UK)
  
  Optimal partitions of finite sets
• Prof. C. E. Praeger (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia)
  
  Imprimitive, line-transitive designs
• Dr C.M. Roney-Dougal (University of St. Andrews, UK)
  
  Constraints, and how to satisfy them: Symmetry & Search
• Prof. S. Thomas (Rutgers University, USA)
  
  The quasi-isometry problem for finitely generated groups

In addition, we held a poster session and a problem session. The problems presented will be posted on this website in due course.

The programme also featured some of Peter's non-mathematical interests, when we had a musical evening, and a walk in the hills.