Postgraduate Seminars Semester 1 2008

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Contents 1 Tuesday, June 24 1.1 Room 222, Maths & Physics building 2 MATHS 745 seminars 2.1 Friday, 27 June 2008 2.1.1 Room 222

Tuesday, June 24

Room 222, Maths & Physics building

• 1:00pm - 1:20pm Numerical methods for pricing European basket call options Philip Vlaskovsky
• 1:25pm - 1:45pm Cellular automata: my discrete view Hugh Gribben
• 1:50pm - 2:10pm The Geometry of PDEs and differential systems: the Cauchy-Kowalewski theorem and its application to the Cartan-Kahler Geon Oh
• 2:15pm - 2:35pm Towards Riemannian curvature. Concepts and Exercises Yuri Vyatkin
• 2:40pm- 3:00pm Two-dimensional water-wave scattering by rectangular obstacles using eigenfunction matching Martens Till Karsten
• 3:05pm - 3:25pm CP2 as an example of a self-dual manifold Matthias Drews
• 3:30pm - 3:50pm Riemannian geometry Heather Macbeth
• 3:55pm- 4:15pm Distribution theory Matthew Randall

MATHS 745 seminars

Friday, 27 June 2008

Room 222

• Maryam Alavi "The skeleton of turbulence" 10-10.20
• Joachim Krenciszek "Traffic dynamics" 10.25-10.45
• Geon Oh "Quantum chaos" 10.50-11.10
• Itamar Amith "L-systems and plant forms" 11.15-11.35
• Hans Braun "Self-organized criticality" 11.40-12.00
• Mathias Drews "Fractal land forms" 12.05-12.25
• Joe Sikuea "Attractor reconstruction" 12.30-12.50