Every so often, I go to my WordPress blog and read a random item, then step forward or back to get a picture of what was going on in my life then. Some of this is real feelgood stuff, such as the support I had from students when I was evicted from my office in…

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13.09.2025

Statistical methods in variety testing | Peter Cameron's Blog

As part of accompanying Rosemary to her conferences, I have just spent four days at the Thirteenth Working Seminar on Statistical Methods in Variety Testing, at COBORU at Sŀupia Wielka, Poland. COBORU is an acronym for a Polish phrase which translates as Research Centre for Cultivar Testing. The acronym is a little misleading: the C…

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21.09.2025

Eucarpia | Peter Cameron's Blog

Eucarpia was an ancient city in Phrygia, near the source of the river Meander whose name has given us the word for an indirect route. Eucarpia took its name from the fertile district in which it lies ("eucarpia" means "well-fruited" in Greek), which also gave its name to a goddess of fertility. The name has…

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03.10.2025

Group Theory Day in Budapest | Peter Cameron's Blog

Péter Pál Pálfy (P cubed to his many friends) is 70; his birthday was celebrated by a Group Theory Day at the Rényi Institute in Budapest. The morning was devoted to talks by three of P cubed's students. First off was Miklós Abért, telling us about random generation of finite or infinite groups. Sometimes random…

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