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.