Dept of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquia, Spring 2010


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.

Archives : Seminars&Colloquia 1998-2013

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

03/02/10
Dr. Jérôme Bertrand
IMT - Université de Toulouse
'Prescribing Gauss curvature using optimal mass transport.'

08/02/10
Dr. Tom Carroll
UCC
'Stretching convex domains and the hyperbolic metric.'

10/02/10
Professor Anthony O'Farrell
NUIM
'Binomial Coefficients are Integers.'

15/02/10
Dr. Gilles Courtois
CMLS - École Polytechnique
'Growth of groups and, rigidity.'

17/02/10
Professor Juan-Carlos Álvarez Paiva
LPP - Université Lille 1
'Jewels and Problems in Finsler Geometry.'

24/02/10
Professor Anthony O'Farrell
NUIM
'Maximal Uniform Algebras.'

03/03/10
Dr. Nicolas Juillet
IRMA - Université de Strasbourg
'About Ricci curvature in the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group.'

08/03/10
Dr. Heather Turner
Warwick University
'Modelling the Timing of Marriage for Women Living in Ireland.'

10/03/10
Dr. Carl Bracken
NUIM
'The Problem with Divorcing Couples and Juggling Under a Ceiling.'

24/03/10
Professor Stephen Buckley
NUIM
'Wiring Switches to Light Bulbs.'

31/03/10
Dr. Ian Short
The Open University
'Rigidity of configurations of discs and points under Moebius transformations.'

12/04/10
Professor Andrea Sambusetti
Sapienza Università di Roma
'Busemann functions and the Gromov compactification of Riemannian manifolds.'

14/04/10 - CANCELLED
Dr. Stéphane Sabourau
LMPT - Université de Tours
'The Calabi-Croke sphere and the length of the shortest closed geodesic.'

14/04/10
Dr. David Malone
NUIM
'Using and Abusing Hash Functions in Networking.''

19/04/10 - CANCELLED (Iceland's Volcano)
Professor Thomas Banchoff
Brown University
'Moebius Bands vs. Cylinders: Seeing the elementary geometry of normal characteristic classes.'

21/04/10 - CANCELLED (Iceland's Volcano)
Dr. Ludovic Marquis
UMPA - ENS Lyon
'Convex Projective Manifold of finite volume.'

21/04/10
Dr. Stefan Bechtluft-Sachs
NUI Maynooth
'Rational Compressibility and Degenerate Functionals.'

26/04/10 - CANCELLED
Thomas Murphy
King's College London
28/04/10 Denise Earle NUIM 'A New Dendrogram Seriation Algorithm.' 05/05/10 Professor Jean-Marc Schlenker IMT - Université de Toulouse 'Old and new questions on Euclidean polyhedra.'