Wednesday Meeting, 2018-10-03

Lecture Theatre D

Attending

• James Mitchell
• Markus Pfeiffer
• Kirill Rodrigues Blanter
• Finn Smith
• Michael Torpey
• Murray Whyte

Apologies

Minutes

Participant	Activity
James Mitchell	working on GAP package for binding c++ objects to GAP objects
Markus Pfeiffer	thinking about machine learning for geometric group theory and working on paper on rational word problem semigroups
Finn Smith	implementing a constructor for Clifford semigroups
Murray Whyte	working on ShortestPath for digraphs

The meeting began at around 14:05.

James described a nice sufficient condition for a semigroup presentation to define an infinite semigroup using linear algebra.

Kirill dropped by to discuss a project with Markus.

Olexandr Konovalov and Michael Torpey dropped by at around 16:00 to chat about any issues. Michael's GAP package manager package now deals with dependencies.

The meeting ended at about 18:00.