Seminars


	Mathematics Seminar 2007/2008, NUI Galway.

The seminar usually takes place on Thursdays from 3.45pm to 4.45pm in room C219 of the Mathematics Department, which is located in Aras de Brun (Block C).

The talks are directed towards a general mathematical audience. Everyone interested is welcome to attend. Tea/coffee and pastries will be available in C219 from 3.15pm.

Previous seminars are listed here.

Date	Speaker	Title	Contact
September		TBA
06/09/07	Mathieu Dutour (Institut Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb and NUIG)	TBA	Graham Ellis
13/09/07	Prof. Hans-Peter Kunzi University of Cape Town	TBA	Aisling McCluskey
20/09/07	Prof. Thomas Richmond, Western Kentucky University, USA.	Every finite topology arises from a partial pseudometric	Aisling McCluskey
27/09/07
October
02/10/07 Tuesday Seminar	Prof. Jim Muldowney, University of Alberta	Evolution of a research project	Niall Madden
18/10/07	Dr Marcus Greferath, UCD	Inversive Spaces, 0-1-Geometries, and Low-Density Parity-Check Codes	Rachel Quinlan
25/10/07
November
01/11/07	Dr. Niall Madden, NUI Galway	The Numerical Analysis of Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations
08/11/07	Prof. Nial Friel University College Dublin	Integrated likelihoods via power posteriors	John Newell
15/11/07	Jeremie Guilhot (Aberdeen)	On the computation of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials in affine Weyl groups	Goetz Pfeiffer
22/11/07	Dr. Alexander Konovalov, St Andrews	Torsion units in integral group rings of sporadic simple groups	Graham Ellis
December
06/12/07	Prof. Ted Hurley NUI Galway	Unit-derived codes	John Newell
13/12/07	Tim Porter Emeritus Prof, Bangor	Homotopy Quantum Field Theories, and Formal Maps	John Newell

Date	Speaker	Title	Contact
January
10/01/08	Professor Andrew Fowler, Stokes Professor of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, University of Limerick, MACSI & University of Limerick	Glacier Surges	Martin Meere
24/01/08	Professor Mazi Shirvani University of Alberta, Canada	Free groups in group rings with involutions	Ted Hurley
31/01/08	Ms. Marguerite Robinson, MACSI & University of Limerick	Wave Formation in Bubbly Flows	Martin Meere
February
07/02/08	Dr Caroline Lynch NUI Galway	The Bookie Problem
14/02/08	Dr Matthew Craven NUI Galway	Topics on Evolutionary Methods in Group Theory
19/02/08 Tuesday 3pm!	Dr Ana Romero Universidad de La Rioja	Spectral Sequences: Uses, Problems and Computations	Graham Ellis
March
06/03/08	David Higgins NUI Galway	Mobility Measures for Credit-Risk Transition Matrices
13/03/08	Dr John Murray NUI Maynooth	How to count the irreducible characters of a finite group that have a given Frobenius-Schur indicator	Claas Röver
April
03/04/08	Dr Robin Harte Trinity College, Dublin	The Functional Calculus and all that	Ray Ryan
10/04/08
17/04/08	Postgraduate Poster Session	various	Rachel Quinlan
18/04/08	Prof Professor Anthony Bak Universität Bielefeld	Global actions, the geometry of groups, and the question: Can computers support computations of homotopy groups in the environment above ?	Emil Sköldberg
24/04/08	Paul McNicholas University of Guelph	An overview of model-based clustering	John Hinde
May
01/05/08	Dr Thomas Hüttemann Queen's University, Belfast	The derived category of a toric variety by colocalisation	Emil Sköldberg
08/05/08	Mr Mikael Vejdemo Johansson Universität Jena	On the computation of A-infinity algebras and Ext-algebras	Emil Sköldberg
15/05/08	Dr Mark Kambites University of Manchester	The word problem is not so hard after all	Claas Röver
22/05/08	Dr David Ramsey University of Limerick	Looking for a Sexy and Suitable Partner: Game Theoretic Models of Mate Choice	John Newell
29/05/08	Dr Vladimir Dotsenko Trinity College, Dublin	Parking functions and bi-Hamiltonian structures	Claas Röver
June
04/06/08	Prof. Bill Barton University of Auckland, New Zealand	The Language of Mathematics: Telling Mathematical Tales	Aisling McCluskey
18/06/08 Wednesday! 3.45pm	John Loane NUI Galway	Polynomials on Riesz Spaces
19/06/08	Dr Robin Harte TCD	Algebra in Analysis	Ray Ryan
02/07/08 Wednesday! 3.45pm	Dr Carl Scarrott University of Canterbury, NZ	Extreme value modelling using mixture models, with application to neonatal physiological measurements	John Newell


	Send comments and requests to Claas Röver or Emil Sköldberg.