Dept of Mathematics & Statistics Seminars Spring, 2008
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
10/01/08
Dr. Anthony Shakeshaft
University of New South Wales, Australia
'A randomized control trial of a community-based approach to reducing alcohol harm in rural communities in Australia:methods, measures and some initial indicators of outcomes.'
06/02/08
Professor Stephen Gardiner
UCD
'The farthest point distance function.'
11/02/08
Professor Maria Roginskaya
Chalmers University, Göteburg
'On the invariant subspace problem.'
13/02/08
Professor Frédéric Le Roux
Université Paris-Sud, Orsay
'Simplicity of some groups of transformations on surfaces.'
20/02/08
Dr. Patrick Ahern
University of Wisconsin, Madison
'Equivalence of germs of holomorphic functions.'
27/02/08
Dr. Dmitri Zaitsev
TCD
'Which manifolds bound Levi-flat hypersurfaces?'
05/03/08
Professor Tom Laffey
UCD
'Using power series to construct nonnegative matrices with given spectra.'
12/03/08
Professor Stephen Buckley
NUIM
'Curvature conditions and notions of boundary at infinity.'
02/04/08
Mr. Eamon Costello
DCU
'Mathematics Online: Experiences from DCU Distance Education.'
09/04/08
Dr.Veronika Chrastinová
T.U. Brno
'Invertible transformations of smooth curves.'
*10/04/08
Dr.Yoon Choi
Health Protection Agency, London
'Modelling the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of human papillomavirus vaccination.'
16/04/08
Mr. Lars Pforte
NUIM
'The Involution Module of SL(n,2^f).'
23/04/08
Dr. Martin Mathieu
Queen's University Belfast
'On a question by Kaplansky.'
28/04/08
Dr. Rob Stapleton
NUIM
'Regular Fractional Factorial Split-Plot Row-Column Designs.'
30/04/08
Dr. Detta Dickinson
NUIM
'Diophantine approximation on Polynomial curves and surfaces.'
07/05/08
Dr. Ciará an Mac an Bhaird
NUIM
'The Maths Support Centre - An overview of the progress made and the lessons learned.'
11/06/08
Professor Jesus San Martin
Politechnica de Madrid
'The universal cardinal ordering of fixed points.'
**12/06/08
Professor Anthony G. O'Farrell
NUIM
'Reversible biholomorphis germs.'
***18/06/08
Mr. Gerard Crotty
Fermoy
'Hooked on Polyhedra.'
25/06/08
Dr. Nick Gill
University of Bristol
'Reality in Linear Groups.'