Dept of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquia 2012/13


Time and Location: All colloquia take place at 4pm in MS2 on the Top Floor of Logic House, South Campus, NUI Maynooth, unless otherwise indicated.

Colloquium Organiser for the academic year 2012/13: Dr. James O'Shea


Archives : Seminars&Colloquia 1998-2013

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

Semester I

DATE SPEAKER UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTE TITLE

19/09/2012

Dr Michael Salter-Townshend

University College Dublin

Clustering Biased Annotators of News Articles

26/09/2012

Dr Constantin Vernicos

Université Montpellier 2

Approximability of convex bodies and volume entropy of Hilbert Geometries

03/10/2012

Professor Stephen Gardiner

University College Dublin

Universal Taylor Series and Potential Theory

10/10/2012

Professor Stephen Buckley

NUI Maynooth

Hardy-type inequalities: a survey

17/10/2012

Dr Jason Wyse

Trinity College Dublin

Model selection using MCMC for two models with latent mixture elements

24/10/2012

Dr Thomas Murphy

The Free University of Brussels

Some flavours of Morse Theory

07/11/2012

Dr John Ballantyne

University of Manchester

Local Fusion Graphs of Finite Groups

14/11/2012

Professor George Huxley

Department of Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth

Ptolemy and his forerunners.

21/11/2012

Dr Dmitry Badziahin

Durham University

On badly approximable numbers and points

26/11/2012 (Mon)

Dr James O'Shea

NUI Maynooth

The isotropy of multiples of quadratic forms over field extensions

28/11/2012

Professor Peter McNamara

Bucknell University

Symmetric polynomials and the skew Pieri rule

03/12/2012 (Mon)

Mr Ciarán O'Rourke

NUI Maynooth

An analytic proof of the prime number theorem

05/12/2012 CANCELLED

Professor Johan Lithner

Umeå University

Learning mathematics by imitative or creative reasoning

05/12/2012

Professor Stephen Buckley

NUI Maynooth

Finite rings with many commuting pairs of elements

12/12/2012

Professor Jesús San Martin

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

From permutations to matrices. A matrix representation of the composition of periodic orbits in bifurcation diagrams

Semester II

DATE SPEAKER UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTE TITLE

30/01/2013

Dr. Giannis Platis

University of Crete

The Ptolemaean inequality in boundaries of symmetric spaces of rank 1

04/02/2013 (CANCELLED)

Dr Radha Kessar

City University London

06/02/2013

Dr Tony Samuel

Universität Bremen

Embedding the dynamics of Lorenz maps in linear systems

13/02/2013

Professor Bernd Stratmann

Universität Bremen

Some recent results in dynamical ergodic theory of numbers and variations

20/02/2013

Professor Detlev Hoffmann

Technische Universität Dortmund

Sums of squares

27/02/2013

Dr Thomas Unger

University College Dublin

The Knebusch trace formula for hermitian forms

06/03/2013

Professor Kenneth Falconer

University of St Andrews

Symmetry and Enumeration of Self-similar Fractals

13/03/2013

Mr Matthias Krebs

University of East Anglia

Auslander-Reiten quivers of functorially finite resolving subcategories

20/03/2013

Professor Michel Waldschmidt

Université Pierre et Marie Curie

The abc conjecture and some of its consequences

03/04/2013

Dr David Stewart

University of Oxford

Bounding Cohomology

04/04/2013
JH7

Professor Ivor Grattan-Guinness

University of Middlesex

Ménage à trois: Relations between Set Theory, Logic and Mathematics between 1890s and 1930s

08/04/2013
12:15pm
JH Conf Rm

Professor Stephen Buckley

NUI Maynooth

Finite rings with many idempotents

10/04/2013

Professor Ronan Reilly

NUI Maynooth

ABAMO: A Bayesian model of tone classification within and across languages

17/04/2013

Professor Roderick Gow

University College Dublin

Rank Problems for Subspaces of Hermitian Matrices over Finite Fields

24/04/2013

Professor Johan Lithner

Umeå University

Learning mathematics by imitative or creative reasoning

29/04/2013 (Mon)

Professor Anthony G. O'Farrell

NUI Maynooth

Some approximation problems

01/05/2013

Ms Áine Dooley

NUI Maynooth

A random effects approach to modelling the biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relationship