Seminars

Seminar Series

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»: Algebra and Combinatorics

»: Algebra and Geometry

»: Analysis

»: Applied Maths

»: Department Colloquium

»: Geometry and Analysis

»: Mathematics Education Seminar Series (MESS)

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

»: Topology

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Algebra and Combinatorics

These seminars are currently organised by Dr Lukas Zobernig

Recent Seminars

Thursday, 7 October 2021: Recognizing classical groups using "stingray elements" and "probabilistic geometry" by Stephen Glasby
Thursday, 19 August 2021: Finite non-planar groups that have a Cayley graph embeddable in the projective plane by Isabelle Steinmann
Thursday, 12 August 2021: Some Recent Results in Supersingular Isogeny-Based Key Establishment by Jason LeGrow
Thursday, 5 August 2021: Divergence in Coxeter groups by Anne Thomas
Thursday, 29 July 2021: Linear systems of conics over finite fields by Tomasz Popiel

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Algebra and Geometry

These seminars are currently organised by Sebastian Boie

Recent Seminars

Tuesday, 23 January 2018: Strongly transitive actions on Euclidean buildings (joint work with Linus Kramer) by Jeroen Schillewaert
Thursday, 12 October 2017: The Generalized Lax Conjecture by Christoph Hanselka
Friday, 2 June 2017: Matrix Equations and Nullstellens�tze by Igor Klep
Wednesday, 24 May 2017: Universal skew fields of fractions by Jurij Volcic
Wednesday, 10 May 2017: Factorizations of PSD Matrix Polynomials and their Smith Normal Forms by Christoph Hanselka

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Analysis

These seminars are currently organised by Dr Shayne Waldron

Recent Seminars

Wednesday, 18 March 2020: The Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator in the space of continuous functions by Dr Manfred Sauter
Thursday, 23 January 2020: Bernstein inequalities via the heat semigroup by Prof. El Maati Ouhabaz
Wednesday, 18 December 2019: Asymptotics of semigroups via the semigroup at infinity by Prof. Markus Haase
Wednesday, 13 November 2019: Computation of the extremal function by Sione Ma'u
Tuesday, 24 September 2019: A review of some techniques to construct spherical designs by Mozhgan Mohammadpour

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Applied Maths

These seminars are currently organised by Cris Hasan

Recent Seminars

Thursday, 19 August 2021: Age-dependent branching processes and a first passage percolation question by Jesse Goodman
Thursday, 12 August 2021: From networks in physical space to networks in phase space by Claire Postlethwaite
Thursday, 5 August 2021: Preserving the quality of milk powder shipments by Steve Taylor
Thursday, 29 July 2021: Collective coordinate model reduction for networks of coupled oscillators by Lauren Smith
Thursday, 17 June 2021: Mathematical Symphony of Life by Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova

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Everyone welcome!

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Department Colloquium

These seminars are currently organised by Gabriel Verret

Recent Seminars

Wednesday, 16 February 2022: Adapting analysis/synthesis pairs to pseudodifferential operators by Melissa Tacy
Wednesday, 2 February 2022: The nonlinear stability of �big bang� formation for solutions of the Einstein equations in mathematical cosmology by Florian Beyer
Wednesday, 18 August 2021: Large values of eigenfunctions on hyperbolic manifolds by Siimon Marshall
Wednesday, 28 July 2021: Modelling and analysing the respiratory neural network using Boolean representation by Alona Ben-Tal
Friday, 21 May 2021: Improving sample average approximation using distributional robustness by Andy Philpott

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Talks in the Colloquium Series are intended for a general mathematical audience. We particularly welcome students (senior undergraduates, postgraduates, PhD) to the Colloquium lectures.

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Geometry and Analysis

These seminars are currently organised by Dr Pedram Hekmati

Recent Seminars

Friday, 22 November 2019: Submanifolds and holonomy by Carlos Enrique Olmos
Friday, 15 November 2019: The nullity of the curvature tensor by Carlos Enrique Olmos
Friday, 2 August 2019: Laplace eigenfunctions: a survey by Dmitry Jakobson
Tuesday, 14 May 2019: Involutions on the affine Grassmannian and moduli spaces of principal bundles by Anthony Henderson
Tuesday, 14 May 2019: Involutions on the affine Grassmannian and moduli spaces of principal bundles by Anthony Henderson

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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)

Recent Seminars

Friday, 15 March 2019: Five decades of mathematics education research by Professor Matthew Inglis
Friday, 3 November 2017: The Changing Face of Undergraduate Mathematics Education: A U.S. Perspective by Rachel Weir
Friday, 3 November 2017: The Changing Face of Undergraduate Mathematics Education: A U.S. Perspective by Rachel Weir
Friday, 20 November 2015: The (Hand)write stuff: STEM Tertiary Teaching with Pen Enabled Tablet PCs by Peter Maclaren
Friday, 18 September 2015: Student engagement in large classes by Bodo Lang

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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

Wednesday, 4 March 2020: Generalisation of the Danilov-Karzanov-Koshevoy construction for Peak-Pit Condorcet domains by Arkadii Slinko
Monday, 16 May 2016: Growth of dimension in complete simple games by Arkadii Slinko
Monday, 2 May 2016: Average-case analysis of random assignment algorithms by Mark Wilson
Monday, 11 April 2016: Hierarchies, Ties and Power in Organizational Networks by Jiamou Liu
Monday, 4 April 2016: Generalised Second-Price Auctions by Rachel Liu

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Everyone welcome!

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Topology

Recent Seminars

Thursday, 30 May 2019: Paths in Graphs and Continua by Professor Paul Gartside
Friday, 2 March 2018: Lozi-like maps and symbolic dynamics by Sonja Stimac
Friday, 2 February 2018: The Closed Subset Theorem for Inverse Limits with Upper Semicontinuous Bonding Functions by Iztok Banic
Friday, 27 January 2017: Locally Complicated Spaces by Professor Greg Conner
Wednesday, 18 January 2017: Models of hyperspaces by Dr Alejandro Illanes

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All welcome!

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