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.'