Dept of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquia 2011/12

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 2011/12: Dr. Katarina Domijan

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

Semester I

DATE	SPEAKER	UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTE	TITLE
21/09/11	Professor Fausto Di Biase	Universita` "G. D'Annunzio", Italy	Twist Points of Planar Domains
28/09/11	Professor Anthony O'Farrell	Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth	Factorizing Maps into Involutions and Reversibles
05/10/11	Dr Nema Dean	University of Glasgow, UK	Cluster Analysis in Educational Testing
12/10/11	Sonia Balagopalan	Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth	Triangulating Real Projective Spaces
19/10/11	Professor Frédéric Le Roux	Université Paris-Sud, Orsay	Fragmentation of braids and diffeomorphisms
26/10/11	Dr Brett Houlding	Trinity College Dublin	Considerations on jury size and composition using lower probabilities
09/11/11	Professor George Huxley	Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth	Ancient Greek Numerical Systems
14/11/11	Dr J. Roger Hindley	Swansea University, UK	Propositional Logic and Type-Theory, the Curry-Howard correspondence
16/11/11	Tugba Aysel	Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth	An Exploration of the Effect of High-Stakes Examinations on the Teaching of Mathematics in Post-Primary Education in Turkey and Ireland
23/11/11	Dr Deirdre Toher	UWE Bristol, UK	Classification Challenges in Chemistry
30/11/11	Dr Thomas Murphy	The Free University of Brussels	Foliations and submanifolds of symmetric spaces
07/12/11	Dr Norma Coffey	NUI Galway	Clustering Time-Course Microarray Data Using the Linear Mixed Effects Model
12/12/11	Professor Joaquim Bruna	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Some Open Problems in Classical Fourier Analysis
14/12/11	Professor Simon Wilson	Trinity College Dublin	Bayesian source separation of Cosmic Microwave Background

Semester II

DATE	SPEAKER	UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTE	TITLE
30/01/12	Professor Stephen Buckley	Dept Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth	Conditions implying ring commutativity
01/02/12	Dr Yuliya Zelenyuk	The University of the Witwatersrand, SA	Ultrafilter semigroups and related questions
08/02/12	Claudia Beleites	Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany	Vibrational Spectroscopy and Classification for Medical Diagnosis
15/02/12	Dr Claire Gormley	University College Dublin	Discovering clustering structure and inﬂuential variables in high-dimensional metabolomic data
22/02/12	Dr Fiona Boland	University College Dublin	Investigating the possible impact of dilution of somatic cell count on the association between milk yield and somatic cell count
29/02/12	Dr William Turner	University of Aberdeen	Hochschild cohomology and Schur algebras
07/03/12	Dr David Conlon	University of Cambridge	Graph regularity and removal lemmas
14/03/12	Dr Pádraig O'Catháin	NUI Galway	Difference sets and Hadamard matrices
28/03/12	Professor Sanju Velani	University of York	Diophantine approximation: the Lebesgue and Hausdorff theories
29/03/12	Dr Kurt Falk	Universität Bremen, Germany	Rough CAT(0) spaces and groups
02/04/12	Professor Joan Verdera	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	The Euler equation for analysts (and similar people)
04/04/12	Azadeh Nikou	Teacher Education University Teheran	Vector-valued Lipschitz Algebras
18/04/12	Dr David Craven	University of Oxford	Local representation theory: the past, present and future
25/04/12	Dr Mirela Domijan	University of Warwick, UK	Light and temperature effects on the circadian clock
26/04/12 PHYSICS HALL	Professor W.T. Gowers	University of Cambridge	Will computers ever be able to do mathematical research?
02/05/12	Dr Dolores Corcoran	St Patrick's College, Drumcondra	Constructivism Made Visible in Contingency: Learning to Teach Mathematics in a Community of Practice