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

17 May (Thursday): Fixed Point Theorems and Applications, by Assoc. Prof. Warren Moors
18 May (Friday): Selections, games and metrisability of manifolds, by Prof. David Gauld
22 May (Tuesday): Exceptional primes and representation growth of T-groups, by Shannon Ezzat

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 and Computational 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

Tuesday, 15 May: Ternary quadratic forms and Kaplansky's conjecture by Tan Do
Tuesday, 1 May: Computational aspects of infinite linear groups by Alla Detinko
Tuesday, 24 April: Algebraic design theory by Dane Flannery
Tuesday, 17 April: Some magic words by Martin Liebeck
Monday, 16 April: Matroid representation over infinite fields by Geoffrey Whittle

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

Monday, 2 April: 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
Tuesday, 14 June 2011: Connes' Embedding Conjecture and Noncommutative Polynomials by Igor Klep

Further Information
All welcome!
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Applied and Computational Maths
These seminars are currently organised by Dr Claire Postlethwaite
Recent Seminars

Thursday, 10 May: Waves in mathematical models of intracellular calcium and other excitable systems by Dr Wenjun Zhang
Thursday, 3 May: Spike-adding mechanisms in transient bursts by Professor Osinga
Thursday, 26 April: Variable order and stepsize for numerical integrators by Professor John Butcher
Thursday, 5 April: Extrapolation of symmetrized Runge-Kutta methods by Annie Gorgery
Thursday, 29 March: Exponential decay for linear time-varying systems by Dr Adrian Hill

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

Thursday, 3 May: Problems for the clairvoyant demon by Professor Geoffrey Grimmett
Thursday, 23 February: Symmetries of cubical toroids by Dr. Isabel Hubard
Thursday, 6 October 2011: Rational Points on Curves by Prof. Victor Flynn
Thursday, 29 September 2011: New approaches to modelling nonlinear phenomena by Gaven Martin
Thursday, 21 July 2011: A random Random Walk walk by Mark Holmes

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

Monday, 19 March: Smooth metric measure spaces and conformal geometry by Jeffrey Case
Wednesday, 7 March: Parallel tensors for cone structures by Vladimir Matveev
Friday, 18 November 2011: Parallel (p+1)-forms on the metric cone and interpretation on the underlying manifold by Roberto Panai
Friday, 18 November 2011: Einstein manifolds with a Killing vector field by Sean Curry
Friday, 9 September 2011: Prolongation of overdetermined systems of PDE's in parabolic geometries by Josef Silhan

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

Wednesday, 2 May: WHAT ARE WE THINKING IN MATHS WHEN WE SAY �ALL� (OR �EACH� OR �EVERY�)? by Prof. Ed Dubinsky
Friday, 9 March: What lies beneath? An exploration of the accessibility of proof and proving in the context of an advanced undergraduate mathematics module: a case study by Aisling McCluskey
Tuesday, 15 November 2011: Transition from School to University Education in Mathematics: New Zealand and Australia Perspectives by Merrilyn Goos, Mike Thomas & Sergiy Klymchuk
Friday, 4 November 2011: Out with the normal � in with the bootstrap by Ross Parsonage
Friday, 28 October 2011: MACIMISE: Returning to my research roots. by Bill Barton

Further Information
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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

Thursday, 10 May: by Patrick Girard
Monday, 30 April: Ceteris paribus reasoning and preferences by Patrick Girard
Monday, 26 March: MMP review: what are the issues and what are the options? by Arkadii Slinko
Tuesday, 22 November 2011: A matter of interpretation: Ambiguous contracts and liquidated damages by Simon Grant
Tuesday, 13 September 2011: Inference with Ambiguous Priors and an Economic Application by Matthew Ryan

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

Friday, 4 May: On topologies on $X$ as points within $2^{\mathcal P}(X)$: \\ lattice theory meets topology by Dr. Aisling McCluskey
Friday, 27 April: On topologies on $X$ as points within $\px$: \\ lattice theory meets topology by Dr. Aisling McCluskey
Friday, 30 March: The discovery of hyperbolization of a knot complement - Part 2 : the construction by Matthieu Jacquemet
Friday, 23 March: The discovery of hyperbolization of a knot complement - Part 1 : background by Matthieu Jacquemet
Friday, 16 March: Generalised inverse limits of tent maps by Michael Lockyer

Further Information
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