# EVENTS

#### PhD Confirmation Seminar

"Graph Labeling and Applications"
Dushyant Tanna

12:00 pm, Mon, 7th Sep 2015
V205, Mathematics Building

#### CARMA Colloquium

"Quasicrystals and Diophantine approximation"
Alan Haynes

4:00 pm, Thu, 10th Sep 2015
V205, Mathematics Building

These are the events in the next 7 days. For more, see the events page.

# CONFERENCES

Coming up next: CARMA Retreat 2015! (5 September)

# NEWS

#### A/Prof Mike Meylan talks about wave power

Recently Mike Meylan spoke to 2NURFM about his research in wave power. Listen here.

#### Borwein made The Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Western

CARMA director Borwein has been made Western University's Distinguished Scholar in Residence and will spend March through June 2016 in that role at Western University in London Ontario.

#### Australia WINS !! International Statistical Literacy Project

The National Secondary Schools Poster Competition (www.ssaipostercomp.info) involves teams of secondary school students creating, designing, implementing and creatively reporting upon a... [READ MORE]

# HIGHLIGHTS

Selected paper from DocServer
James A. MacDougall

ABSTRACT

Let $U$ be an $n$-dimensional vector space over a finite field of $q$ elements. The number of elements of $A^2 U$ of each irreduaile length is found using the isomorphism of $A^2 U$ with $H_n$ the space of $n \times n$ skew-symmetric matrices, and results due to Carlitz and MacWilliams on the number of skew-symmetric matrices of any given rank.

# MEMBERSHIP

Membership to CARMA offers many benefits and is available by invitation to all University of Newcastle academic staff. Associate membership, also by invitation, is available to external researchers and practitioners for three-year renewable terms. Associate members are expected to visit CARMA with some frequency, typically for a total of three to four weeks in a year, and to be involved in one or more ongoing research projects with CARMA members. CARMA is able to assist with the travel and living costs of such visits.