Wednesday Meeting, 2026-01-28

Lecture Theatre D

Attending

• Joe Edwards
• Frankie Gillis
• Gabrielle Glass
• Josh James-Lee
• Jess Levine
• Rheya Monerasinghe
• Jake Swent
• Anuj Thakur
• Joe Ward
• Murray Whyte
• Michael Young

Apologies

• James Mitchell

Minutes

Participant	Activity
Joe Edwards	Trying to fix a bug in the Semigroups libsemigroups-v3 PR
Frankie Gillis	Exploring the new cographs issue
Gabrielle Glass	Speaking with Michael to discuss dissertation
Josh James-Lee	Working on the libsemigroups jll
Jess Levine	Speaking with Michael to discuss dissertation
Rheya Monerasinghe	Finishing off digraph edge connectivity, then looking for a new task for the semester
Jake Swent	Maybe talking to James and Joe. In general working on Julia bindings for libsemigroups
Anuj Thakur	Looking into a task for the semester
Joe Ward	Making a PR into Semigroups
Murray Whyte	Reading some stuff
Michael Young	Helping people get a project, and giving an intro to the Wednesday meetings

The meeting began at 14:00 and ended around 17:00. Some attendees joined virtually via Teams.

Michael kicked off the meeting with an introduction to the wednesday meetings and the VIP. This included going round all of the participants and asking for a summary of who they are and what they're doing this semester. This info is summarised in the table below:

Name	Role	First meeting
James Mitchell	Professor (Maths)	2012
Michael Young	Lecturer (CS)	2013
Joe Edwards	PhD (Maths)	2021
Joe Ward	PhD (Maths)	2025
Jake Swent	4th Year (CS, VIP)	2025
Josh James-Lee	4th Year (CS, VIP)	2025
Rheya Monerasinghe	4th Year (CS, VIP)	2025
Frankie Gillis	3rd Year (Maths)	2025
Jess Levine	4th Year (Maths + CS, Dissertation)	Today
Gabrielle Glass	4th Year (Maths + CS, Dissertation)	Today
Anuj Thakur	3rd Year (Study Abroad UC Berkley, Applied Math and CS, VIP)	Today