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Colloquia 2012/13

Dept of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquia

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.

Colloquium Organiser for the academic year 2012/13: Dr. James O'Shea

Archives : Seminars&Colloquia 1998-2012

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

Semester I

DATE	SPEAKER	UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTE	TITLE
19/09/2012	Dr Michael Salter-Townshend	University College Dublin	Clustering Biased Annotators of News Articles
26/09/2012	Dr Constantin Vernicos	Université Montpellier 2	Approximability of convex bodies and volume entropy of Hilbert Geometries
03/10/2012	Professor Stephen Gardiner	University College Dublin	Universal Taylor Series and Potential Theory
10/10/2012	Professor Stephen Buckley	NUI Maynooth	Hardy-type inequalities: a survey
17/10/2012	Dr Jason Wyse	Trinity College Dublin	Model selection using MCMC for two models with latent mixture elements
24/10/2012	Dr Thomas Murphy	The Free University of Brussels	Some flavours of Morse Theory
07/11/2012	Dr John Ballantyne	University of Manchester	Local Fusion Graphs of Finite Groups
14/11/2012	Professor George Huxley	Department of Mathematics & Statistics, NUI Maynooth	Ptolemy and his forerunners.
21/11/2012	Dr Dmitry Badziahin	Durham University	On badly approximable numbers and points
26/11/2012 (Mon)	Dr James O'Shea	NUI Maynooth	The isotropy of multiples of quadratic forms over field extensions
28/11/2012	Professor Peter McNamara	Bucknell University	Symmetric polynomials and the skew Pieri rule
03/12/2012 (Mon)	Mr Ciarán O'Rourke	NUI Maynooth	An analytic proof of the prime number theorem
05/12/2012 CANCELLED	Professor Johan Lithner	Umeå University	Learning mathematics by imitative or creative reasoning
05/12/2012	Professor Stephen Buckley	NUI Maynooth	Finite rings with many commuting pairs of elements
12/12/2012	Professor Jesús San Martin	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid	From permutations to matrices. A matrix representation of the composition of periodic orbits in bifurcation diagrams

Semester II

DATE	SPEAKER	UNIVERSITY/INSTITUTE	TITLE
30/01/2013	Dr. Giannis Platis	University of Crete	The Ptolemaean inequality in boundaries of symmetric spaces of rank 1
04/02/2013 (CANCELLED)	Dr Radha Kessar	City University London
06/02/2013	Dr Tony Samuel	Universität Bremen	Embedding the dynamics of Lorenz maps in linear systems
13/02/2013	Professor Bernd Stratmann	Universität Bremen	Some recent results in dynamical ergodic theory of numbers and variations
20/02/2013	Professor Detlev Hoffmann	Technische Universität Dortmund	Sums of squares
27/02/2013	Dr Thomas Unger	University College Dublin	The Knebusch trace formula for hermitian forms
06/03/2013	Professor Kenneth Falconer	University of St Andrews	Symmetry and Enumeration of Self-similar Fractals
13/03/2013	Mr Matthias Krebs	University of East Anglia	Auslander-Reiten quivers of functorially finite resolving subcategories
20/03/2013	Professor Michel Waldschmidt	Université Pierre et Marie Curie	The abc conjecture and some of its consequences
03/04/2013	Dr David Stewart	University of Oxford	Bounding Cohomology
04/04/2013 JH7	Professor Ivor Grattan-Guinness	University of Middlesex	Ménage à trois: Relations between Set Theory, Logic and Mathematics between 1890s and 1930s
08/04/2013 12:15pm JH Conf Rm	Professor Stephen Buckley	NUI Maynooth	Finite rings with many idempotents
10/04/2013	Professor Ronan Reilly	NUI Maynooth	ABAMO: A Bayesian model of tone classification within and across languages
17/04/2013	Professor Roderick Gow	University College Dublin	Rank Problems for Subspaces of Hermitian Matrices over Finite Fields
24/04/2013	Professor Johan Lithner	Umeå University	Learning mathematics by imitative or creative reasoning
29/04/2013 (Mon)	Professor Anthony G. O'Farrell	NUI Maynooth	Some approximation problems
01/05/2013	Ms Áine Dooley	NUI Maynooth	A random effects approach to modelling the biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relationship

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