Dept of Mathematics & Statistics Seminars Autumn, 2007

Time and Location: All seminars take place at 4pm in MS2 on the Top Floor of Logic House, South Campus, NUI Maynooth, unless otherwise indicated.

Past Seminars & Colloquia

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

26/09/07
Dr. Ian Short
NUI Maynooth
'Ford Circles and continued fractions.'

03/10/07
Mr. Mark Walsh
University of Oregon
'Gromov-Lawson Concordance implies Isotopy.'

04/10/07
Dr. Sara Munday
University of St. Andrews
'Introduction to Minkowski's question mark function. Introductory talk to that of Dr. Bernd Stratman on 10.10.07

10/10/07
Dr. Bernd O Stratmann
University of St. Andrews
'Fractal analysis for sets of non-differentiability of Minkowski's question mark function.'

15/10/07
Dr. Thomas Foertsch
University of Bonn/ University of Zurich
'The Ptolemy inequality and non-positive curvature condition.'

17/10/07
Dr. Dmitri Alekseevsky
University of Edinburgh
'Cohomogeneity one Riemannian and Lorentzian manifolds.'

24/10/07
Dr. Constantin Vernicos
Université de Neuchâtel
'Characterisations of Gromov-Hyperbolicity
in Hilbert Geometries.'

07/11/07
Professor Anthony O'Farrell
NUI Maynooth
'Some aspects of reversibility.'

14/11/07
Dr. David J. Green
University of Jena
'Commutative algebra and computational group cohomology.'

21/11/07
Professor Mate Matolcsi
Renyi Institute Budapest
'On the convergence of Trotter's formula for projections.'

28/11/07
Professor George Huxley
NUI Maynooth
'Some topics in the geometry and geometrical astronomy of the Greeks.'

05/12/07
Dr. Ciaráan Mac An Bhaird
NUI Maynooth
'A Diophantine characterisation of cyclotomic numbers.'

10/12/07
Dr. Peter Quast
University of Augsburg
'Pluriharmonic maps into Hermitian symmetric spaces and Sym's formula.'

12/12/07
Dr. Richard Timoney
Trinity College Dublin
'Inequalities for matrix norms and an application to C^*-algebras.'