22/09/10

Professor Sarah Lubienski

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

Mathematics Instruction in the United States: Some Lessons Learned From Two Decades of Reform

27/09/10

Dr Kurt Falk

Universität Bremen, Germany

Kleinian groups with dimension gap

29/09/10

Dr David Wraith

Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth

Aspects of Topology and Symmetry

06/10/10

Professor Stephen Buckley

Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth

A rough guide to Rough CAT(0)

07/10/10
**4pm in the Hamilton Seminar Room in Rye Hall on North Campus

Professor Alexander Guterman

Moscow State University, Russia

Pólya problem on the conversion between determinant and permanent

13/10/10

Professor Phil Rippon

The Open University, UK

The structure of the escaping set in complex dynamics

18/10/10

Professor Richard Middleton

The Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth

Modelling and control of HIV mutation and escape

20/10/10

Dr Gabrielle Kelly

University College Dublin

Lecture attendance rates at university and related factors

03/11/10

Dr Lara Alcock

Loughborough University, UK

Definitions and proof: Investigating two issues in early undergraduate mathematics learning

10/11/10

Dr Urška Demšar

NCG, NUI Maynooth

Visualising results of geographically weighted statistical methods

17/11/10

Dr Alicia Quirós Carretero

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madrid, Spain

Dynamic linear models applied to the detection of brain activity

24/11/10

Dr Detta Dickinson

Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth

Diophantine approximation on polynomials in real and p-adic space

01/12/10
CANCELLED

Dr Emma Holian

NUI Galway

Clustering longitudinal data; penalized spline smoothing within a mixture of mixed models framework.

08/12/10

Professor George Huxley

Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth

Isaac Newton on ancient wisdom

13/12/10

Professor Colm Mulcahy

Spelman College, Atlanta

The mathematics, magic&mystery of Martin Gardner - the greatest friend mathematics ever had

15/12/10

Aoife Mc Monagle

University of Manchester, UK

Graphs, Schottky surfaces and zeta functions

02/02/11

Professor Jesús San Martín

Politechnica de Madrid, Spain

Composition law of cardinal ordering permutations

09/02/11

Dr Thomas Unger

University College Dublin

The Procesi-Schacher conjecture and Hilbert's 17th problem for algebras with involution

16/02/11

Dr Jason Levesley

University of York, UK

From P-adics to Mixed Metric Number Theory (or how we can turn Undergraduate fiction into fact...and vice-versa!)

23/02/11

Professor Hansjörg Geiges

University of Köln, Germany

How to visualise manifolds up to dimension 5

02/03/11

Professor Jost Eschenburg

University of Augsburg, Germany

From Catenoid-Helicoid deformation to geometry of loop groups

09/03/11

Professor Jean Esterle

University of Bordeaux, France

Normability of algebras of power series, prime ideals, and discontinuous algebra norms on C(K)

23/03/11

Dr Natalia Budarina

Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth

Simultaneous Diophantine Approximations

30/03/11

Professor Tom Banchoff

Brown University, USA

Seeing Surface Singularities: Folds, Linking, and Inflections for Polygons and Polyhedra in 3- and 4-Space.

06/04/11

Dr David O Keeffe

NUI Galway

The Hochschild cohomology ring of a quadratic monomial algebra.

13/04/11

Dr. Ciarán Mac an Bhaird

Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth

Seeing Student Mentoring

27/04/11

Dr Séamus Kelly

Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth

Orbit Polytopes

04/05/11

Professor Bruce Hanson

St. Olaf College, Minnesota

Linear Dilatation and Differentiability of Homeomorphisms of Rⁿ

05/05/11

Hugh O Donnell

Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth

On a problem of Nesterenko: when is the closest root of a polynomial a real number?