Seminars

Department of Mathematics

Seminars

The Department runs a monthly Colloquium series, for senior undergraduates, graduate students and staff, as well as several seminar series.

Upcoming Seminars

21 May (Tuesday): Secret sharing schemes 2 (elementary introduction), by Arkadii Slinko
21 May (Tuesday): Topological classification of regular polytopes, by Egon Schulte
30 May (Thursday): Recent Advances in Multivariant Algorithmics, by Rod Downey
31 May (Friday): The inadvertent algebraist and the spreadsheet: the case of the missing x., by Jac Field
4 June (Tuesday): (no title), by Arkadii Slinko
27 September (Friday): Mapping mathematical leaps of insight using SPOT diagrams, by Caroline Yoon

Seminar series

Staff and students of the University are most welcome to participate.
The seminars are archived in a database which may be searched.
Users may log into the database to announce or update a seminar.

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Algebra and Combinatorics

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Analysis

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Applied Maths

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Department Colloquium

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Geometry and Analysis Working Group Seminars

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Mathematics Education Seminar Series (MESS)

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Seminar of the Centre for Mathematics in Social Sciences (CMSS)

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Topology

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Algebra and Combinatorics
These seminars are currently organised by A/Prof Ben Martin
Recent Seminars

Monday, 6 May: A survey of matroid research by Dillon Mayhew
Thursday, 18 April: Constructive recognition of alternating and symmetric groups by Jonathan Conder
Tuesday, 16 April: The LU-decomposition of matrices and algebraic groups by Don Taylor
Thursday, 11 April: Something between the conjectures of Polya and Turan implies the Riemann hypothesis by Tim Trudgian
Tuesday, 19 March: Some algorithms for integer factorisation by Shi Bai

Further Information
All welcome!
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Analysis
These seminars are currently organised by Dr Shayne Waldron
Recent Seminars

Thursday, 21 March: Invariance of Convex Sets for Evolution Equations by Prof. Wolfgang Arendt
Monday, 2 April 2012: Conformal structures of static vacuum data by Helmut Friedrich
Friday, 26 August 2011: Spherical waves, nodal sets, and thermoacoustic tomography by Mark Agranovsky
Tuesday, 2 August 2011: Local obstructions to 2-dimensional projective structures admitting skew-symmetric Ricci tensor by Matthew Randall
Tuesday, 14 June 2011: Gradient and oscillation estimates for parabolic partial differential equations by Julie Clutterbuck

Further Information
All welcome!
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Applied Maths
These seminars are currently organised by Dr Shixiao Wang
Recent Seminars

Thursday, 9 May: Erupting Rocks and Dusts by Professor Mark McGuinness
Thursday, 2 May: Modeling the neuroprotective role of enhanced astrocyte mitochondrial metabolism during stroke by Professor David Terman
Thursday, 2 May: Modeling the neuroprotective role of enhanced astrocyte mitochondrial metabolism during stroke by Professor David Terman
Thursday, 18 April: How to regularize with a lasso in a positive manner by Assoc. Prof. David Bryant
Thursday, 11 April: New approaches for modelling the electrophysiology of the human heart by Professor Kevin Burrage

Further Information
Everyone welcome!
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Department Colloquium
These seminars are currently organised by A/Prof Dimitri Leemans
Recent Seminars

Thursday, 18 April: The solution to Siegel's problem by Professor Gaven Martin
Thursday, 28 March: Large deviations with applications to random graphs by Professor S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Thursday, 22 November 2012: Undergraduate Mathematics: What do we really hope to achieve? by Bill Barton and Judy Paterson
Thursday, 1 November 2012: Singularities in fluid mechanics: a grand challenge by Prof. Jim Denier
Thursday, 3 May 2012: Problems for the clairvoyant demon by Professor Geoffrey Grimmett

Further Information
Talks in the Colloquium Series are intended for a general audience. We particularly welcome students (senior undergraduates, postgraduates, PhD) to the Colloquium lectures. Lectures usually take place on a Thursday from 3pm to 4pm, once a month. They are followed by drinks in the Mathematics Common Room. Future colloquia: All welcome!
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Geometry and Analysis Working Group Seminars
Recent Seminars

Wednesday, 3 April: Separation of Variables and Moduli Spaces of Stable Curves by Konrad Schoebel
Wednesday, 6 March: Compactification, projective geometry, and Einstein metrics by Rod Gover
Wednesday, 27 February: Invariant classification of superintegrable systems by Jonathan Kress
Tuesday, 19 February: Essential infinitesimal automorphisms of projective and conformal structures by Andreas Cap
Thursday, 31 January: Problems in Massive Gravity by Andrew Waldron

Further Information
The talks in this series are of an informal workshop nature and range in length from 50 minutes to 90 minutes.
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Mathematics Education Seminar Series (MESS)
These seminars are currently organised by Dr Greg Oates
Recent Seminars

Friday, 19 April: Mathematics in a safety-critical context: Nursing by Diana Coben
Friday, 12 April: Entry-level mathematics placement by Kathryn E. Lenz
Monday, 21 January: Informal Arguments in University Mathematics by Juan Pablo Mejia-Ramos
Friday, 30 November 2012: Educational research on the presentation, reading and comprehension of proofs in university mathematics by Juan Pablo Mejia-Ramos
Wednesday, 21 November 2012: Educational research on the presentation, reading and comprehension of proofs in university mathematics by Juan Pablo Mejia-Ramos

Further Information
All Welcome
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Seminar of the Centre for Mathematics in Social Sciences (CMSS)
These seminars are currently organised by A/Prof Arkadii Slinko
Recent Seminars

Tuesday, 7 May: Secret sharing schemes (an elementary introduction) by Arkadii Slinko
Tuesday, 9 April: Bargaining, Asymmetric Information, and Communication - An Experiment by Dr Ben Greiner
Tuesday, 19 March: Voting Methods for Municipal Elections: Propaganda, Field Experiments and what USA Voters Want from an Election Algorithm by Kathryn E. Lenz
Tuesday, 5 March: Multiobjective Optimization for Supporting Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning by Matthias Ehrgott
Thursday, 14 February: Interim agreements: In the footsteps of Zeno, Parkinson, and Nash by Dov Samet

Further Information
Everyone welcome!
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Topology
These seminars are currently organised by Miss Nazli Uresin
Recent Seminars

Thursday, 9 May: Selections and metrisability of manifolds by Prof. David Gauld
Thursday, 2 May: Introduction to Classical Descriptive Set Theory and an application to classification problems in mathematics by Alex Galicki
Thursday, 2 May: Introduction to Classical Descriptive Set Theory and an application to classification problems in mathematics by Alex Galicki
Thursday, 2 May: Introduction to Classical Descriptive Set Theory and an application to classification problems in mathematics by Alex Galicki
Thursday, 2 May: Introduction to Classical Descriptive Set Theory and an application to classification problems in mathematics by Alex Galicki

Further Information
All welcome!
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