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
ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND
| DATE | SPEAKER | UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTE | TITLE |
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19/09/2012 |
Dr Michael Salter-Townshend |
University College Dublin |
Clustering Biased Annotators of News Articles |
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26/09/2012 |
Dr Constantin Vernicos |
Université Montpellier 2 |
Approximability of convex bodies and volume entropy of Hilbert Geometries |
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03/10/2012 |
Professor Stephen Gardiner |
University College Dublin |
Universal Taylor Series and Potential Theory |
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10/10/2012 |
Professor Stephen Buckley |
NUI Maynooth |
Hardy-type inequalities: a survey |
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17/10/2012 |
Dr Jason Wyse |
Trinity College Dublin |
Model selection using MCMC for two models with latent mixture elements |
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24/10/2012 |
Dr Thomas Murphy |
The Free University of Brussels |
Some flavours of Morse Theory |
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07/11/2012 |
Dr John Ballantyne |
University of Manchester |
Local Fusion Graphs of Finite Groups |
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14/11/2012 |
Professor George Huxley |
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth |
Ptolemy and his forerunners. |
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21/11/2012 |
Dr Dmitry Badziahin |
Durham University |
On badly approximable numbers and points |
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26/11/2012 (Mon) |
Dr James O'Shea |
NUI Maynooth |
The isotropy of multiples of quadratic forms over field extensions |
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28/11/2012 |
Professor Peter McNamara |
Bucknell University |
Symmetric polynomials and the skew Pieri rule |
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03/12/2012 (Mon) |
Mr Ciarán O'Rourke |
NUI Maynooth |
An analytic proof of the prime number theorem |
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05/12/2012 CANCELLED |
Professor Johan Lithner |
Umeå University |
Learning mathematics by imitative or creative reasoning |
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05/12/2012 |
Professor Stephen Buckley |
NUI Maynooth |
Finite rings with many commuting pairs of elements |
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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 |
| DATE | SPEAKER | UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTE | TITLE | |
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30/01/2013 |
Dr. Giannis Platis |
University of Crete |
The Ptolemaean inequality in boundaries of symmetric spaces of rank 1 | |
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04/02/2013 (CANCELLED) |
Dr Radha Kessar |
City University London |
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06/02/2013 |
Dr Tony Samuel |
Universität Bremen |
Embedding the dynamics of Lorenz maps in linear systems | |
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13/02/2013 |
Professor Bernd Stratmann |
Universität Bremen |
Some recent results in dynamical ergodic theory of numbers and variations | |
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20/02/2013 |
Professor Detlev Hoffmann |
Technische Universität Dortmund |
Sums of squares | |
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27/02/2013 |
Dr Thomas Unger |
University College Dublin |
The Knebusch trace formula for hermitian forms | |
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06/03/2013 |
Professor Kenneth Falconer |
University of St Andrews |
Symmetry and Enumeration of Self-similar Fractals | |
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13/03/2013 |
Mr Matthias Krebs |
University of East Anglia |
Auslander-Reiten quivers of functorially finite resolving subcategories | |
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20/03/2013 |
Professor Michel Waldschmidt |
Université Pierre et Marie Curie |
The abc conjecture and some of its consequences | |
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03/04/2013 |
Dr David Stewart |
University of Oxford |
Bounding Cohomology | |
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04/04/2013 |
Professor Ivor Grattan-Guinness |
University of Middlesex |
Ménage à trois: Relations between Set Theory, Logic and Mathematics between 1890s and 1930s | |
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08/04/2013 |
Professor Stephen Buckley |
NUI Maynooth |
Finite rings with many idempotents | |
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10/04/2013 |
Professor Ronan Reilly |
NUI Maynooth |
ABAMO: A Bayesian model of tone classification within and across languages | |
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17/04/2013 |
Professor Roderick Gow |
University College Dublin |
Rank Problems for Subspaces of Hermitian Matrices over Finite Fields | |
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24/04/2013 |
Professor Johan Lithner |
Umeå University |
Learning mathematics by imitative or creative reasoning | |
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29/04/2013 (Mon) |
Professor Anthony G. O'Farrell |
NUI Maynooth |
Some approximation problems | |
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01/05/2013 |
Ms Áine Dooley |
NUI Maynooth |
A random effects approach to modelling the biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relationship |