Department of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquia 2015/16

Time and Location: All colloquia take place on Wednesday at 4pm in MS2, Top Floor, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University, unless otherwise indicated.

Colloquium Organiser for the academic year 2015/16: Dr. Ann O'Shea

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

Date Speaker Institution Title
23/09/15 Professor Kevin McGerty Oxford University Localization and symplectic resolutions
30/09/15 Professor Boris Botvinnik University of Oregon Conformal geometry and topology of manifolds
07/10/15 Professor Mark Walsh Wichita State University Positive scalar curvature of manifolds with boundary
14/10/15 Professor Peter Butkovic University of Birmingham Tropical supereigenvectors
Monday
19/10/15
@4pm
Dr. Andrew Parnell UCD Extreme climatic events: Impacts for Ireland
04/11/15 Professor George Huxley Maynooth University On some Definitions of Numbers in Euclid's Elements VII
11/11/15 Professor Anthony G. O'Farrell Maynooth University The size of sum sets
18/11/15 Gareth Treacy University of Warwick Generating transitive permutation groups: a conjecture of Pyber
25/11/15 Dr. John Murray Maynooth University Real elements of odd order and real characters of finite groups
02/12/15 Dr. Detta Dickinson Maynooth University The distribution of algebraic conjugate points
09/12/15 Professor RG Flood Gresham College, London James Clerk Maxwell
16/12/15 Dr. Martin Kerin Wilhelms UniversitäMü On semi-free actions whose orbit spaces are manifolds
03/02/16 Dr Benjamin Sambale TU Kaiserslautern Orthogonality relations for character and blocks
Monday
08/02/16
Dr Brendan Murphy UCD Variable selection for latent class analysis
Monday
15/02/16
Prof. Juan José Salazar González Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife Mathematical Programming for some logistics problems of a regional airline carrier
17/02/16 Professor Alice Niemeyer University of Aachen Randomised Algorithms in Group Theory
24/02/16 Dr Spyros Dendrinos UCC On boundedness properties of the restricted X-ray transform
02/03/16 Dr Rozenn Dahyot TCD Registration of functions - applications to colour transfer and pattern recognition
09/03/16 Dr Kit Nair University of Liverpool Ergodic methods for continued fractions
30/03/16
Professor Stephen Buckley
Maynooth University Examples and counterexamples in discrete dynamical systems
06/04/16 Dr Johannes Schleischitz Universitat fur BodenKultur, Vienna Metric Diophantine approximation on manifolds
13/04/16 Dr Guoniu Han University of Strasbourg Combinatorics on integer partitions
20/04/16 Dr Siobhan Connolly Maynooth University Statistical methods to investigate the parental role in Autism spectrum disorder
27/04/16 Professor Jana Madjarova Chalmers University On the Art of Provoking the Wrong Answer,or How To Construct Tests
04/05/16 Professor Luis Guijarro Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Geodesics, focal points and the transverse Jacobi equation.
18/05/16 Professor Alberto Facchini
University of Padua
Algebra, writing, right R-modules, left R-modules, G-groups.
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