Dept of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquia 2010/11

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 2010/11: Dr. Caroline Brophy

Past Seminars & Colloquia

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

DATE	SPEAKER	UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTE	TITLE
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?