Dept of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquia

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 2013/14: Dr. David Redmond

Archives : Seminars&Colloquia 1998-2013

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

Semester I

DATE	SPEAKER	UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTE	TITLE
25/09/2013	Professor Simon Kristensen	Aarhus University	Multiplicative Problems in Diophantine Approximation
2/10/2013	Professor Adrian Raftery	University of Washington	Estimating Biological Networks Via Bayesian Model Averaging Joint seminar with the Computer Science Department and the Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth
09/10/2013	Dr Martin Mathieu	Queen's University Belfast	colloquia_abstracts1314.html#Mathieu">Interplay between spectrally bounded operators and Complex Analysis
16/10/2013	Hamilton Walk (starting at 2pm in Dunsink Observatory) Hamilton Lecture (Professor Roger Penrose, 7pm in TCD)
23/10/2013	Dr Jay Taylor	TU Kaiserslautern	Representations of Finite Groups Through Geometry
06/11/2013	Dr Alan Haynes	University of York	Density of orbits in compact spaces, chromatic number, and Diophantine approximation
13/11/2013	Professor George Huxley	NUI Maynooth	Plato, Heisenberg, and Timaean Geometry
20/11/2013	Dr Bernd Kreussler	Mary Immaculate College, Limerick	Means, Braids and Triangle Equations
25/11/2013	Professor B V Rajarama Bhat	Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore	Nilpotent completely positive maps and majorization
27/11/2013	Dr Sejong Park	NUI Galway	Fusion and bisets for finite groups
04/12/2013	Dr Kerstin Pettersson	Stockholm University	Threshold concepts and student learning – the example of function
11/12/2013	Dr Philipp Hoffmann	NUI Maynooth	'On the intersection of $(m,p)$-isometric and $(μ, ∞)$-isometric operator tuples'.
18/12/2013	Mr Michael Grove	Director-STEM Education Centre, The University of Birmingham	Responding to the Mathematics Problems: 2000-2013

Semester II

DATE	SPEAKER	UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTE	TITLE
05/02/2014	Dr. David Malone	NUI Maynooth	Guessing and Passwords
12/02/2014	Professor Wolfgang Willems	University of Magdeburg	The mathematics of network coding
19/02/2014	Dr Chris Sangwin	Loughborough University	Shifts in the definition of the exponential function: historic and pedagogic
26/02/2014	Dr Vesna Manojlovic	University of Belgrade	Quasi-nearly subharmonic functions and quasiconformal mappings
05/03/2014	Prof. Stephen Buckley	NUI Maynooth	Isoclinism and combinatorial ring theory
12/03/2014	Dr David Wraith	NUI Maynooth	Curvature of highly connected manifolds.
19/03/2014	STUDY WEEK
26/03/2014	Prof Ruth Kellerhals	University of Fribourg	Hyperbolic space forms of minimal volume
02/04/2014	Prof Ansie Harding	University of Pretoria	A Mathematics and Education match made in heaven
09/04/2014	Prof Thomas Ivey	College of Charleston	Isometric embedding of surfaces and Darboux integrability
16/04/2014	Professor Jean-Pierre Tignol	Université Catholique de Louvain	Valuations on division algebras and beyond
23/04/2014		EASTER
30/04/2014	Professor Anthony G. O'Farrell	NUI Maynooth	Boundary smoothness of analytic functions
07/05/2014	Dr Andrew Ranicki	University of Edinburgh