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Dr Ray Ryan
Head of School

In this week's seminar Padraig Ó Catháin (NUI Galway) will speak on
Skew difference sets For about seventy years (since the work of Singer, Paley and Hall in the 1930s) the received wisdom on skew difference sets was that there was a single infinite family of such objects: the Paley difference sets. So the construction of new skew difference sets by Ding and Yuan in 2005 came as something of a surprise. Several papers on the subject have since appeared. Many important open questions remain. In this talk I provide an overview of skew difference sets and prove a classification result which provides new skew difference sets at infinitely many new orders. Time permitting, I will also talk about a new method of inequivalence testing..

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• Information on applying for postgraduate research degrees in Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics.
• Fionnuala Connolly awarded the Hamilton Mathematics Prize
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