Mathsoc Talks
2009-present
2015/2016
- 1 October: "Mechanics of Soft Bodies" by Prof. Michel Destrade
- 12 November: "Statistical and Probabilistic Techniques in Consultancy" by Dr Jerome Sheahan
- 26 November: "Ghost Rings, Tables of Marks, and Double Burnside Rings" by Brendan Masterson
- 3 December: SIAM Student Chapter Conference
- 28 January: "Understanding Autistic Spectrum Disorder through Statistics and Machine Learning" by Dr Pilib Ó Bróin
- 18 February: "Maths and Tinder" by Dr Fintan Hegarty
- 10 March: "Martin Gardner, The Best Friend Mathematics Ever Had" by Prof. Colm Mulcahy
- 16 March: Undergraduate Project Presentations
- 7 April: "Coxeter groups, Artin groups and Hecke Algebras" by Alexandre Esterle
- 14 April: "When secs get out of hand" by Dr James Ward
2014/2015
- 18 September: Meet and Greet with Board Games
- 2 October: "Impacts with Friction" by Shane Burns
- 9 October: "Let the (Quantum) Games Begin" by Dr Michael McGettrick
- 16 October: "Group-based Statistical Approaches" by Dr Haixuan Yang
- 23 October: "Is 24 the Answer to the Universe?" by Prof. Michael Tuite
- 30 October: "DNA and RNA Changes Associated with Low and High Levels of Drug Resistance in MRSA" by Simone Coughlan
- 13 November: "Mathematical Models of Seasonally Migrating Populations" by John Donohue
- 18 December: "Stationary Vectors of Stochastic Matrices subject to Combinatorial Constraints" by Jane Breen
- 5 February: "Electroactive Polymers" by Dr Giuseppe Zurlo
- 19 February: Board Games
- 5 March: "A Brief Introduction to Molecular Evolution" by Peter Keane
- 19 March: "Coxeter Diagrams and the Wonderful Things you can do with them" by Prof. Goetz Pfeiffer
- 26 March: "Discrete Vector Fields and the Cohomology of Certain Arithmetic and Crystolographic Groups" by Anh Tuan Bui
2013/2014
- 26 September: "An Introduction to Genome Assembly" by Simone Coughlan
- 17 October: "Topologies as Continuity Spaces: The Epsilon-Delta Obsession" by Jorge Bruno
- 24 October: "Understanding ENCODE Datasets" by Sofia Barreira
- 7 November: "An Introduction to Impacts with Friction" by Shane Burns
- 15 November: "Entering Sparse-Land" by Dr Fintan Hegarty
- 21 November: "Some Classical Cypher Systems" by Dr Emil Skoldberg
- 28 November: Puzzle Solving
- 18 December: Christmas Party
- 16 January: Tangloids Game with Kevin Doherty
- 6 February: "Seq-ing Improved Gene Expression Estimates from Microarrays using Machine Learning" by Paul Korir
- 20 February: "Some Sequences of Integers" by Dr Liam Naughton
- 27 February: "Mathematical Models of Centromere Associating Proteins" by Kevin Doherty
- 13 March: "Mechanics of Soft Solids: Skin, Brain, and Jelly" by Prof. Michel Destrade
- 20 March: "A Differential Equation Model of Seasonal Migration" by John Donohue
- 27 March: "Harnessing Related Species and Samples Data to Create and Optimise Draft Genome Sequences for Leishmania Species" by Simone Coughlan
- 3 April: "Computational Homology of n-types" by Le Van Luyen
2012/2013
- 28 September: "The Chaotic Double Pendulum" by Shane Burns
- 12 October: "A Bad Touch of Bioinformatics" by Paul Geeleher
- 19 October: "The Hole Story" by Fintan Hegarty
- 26 October: "Aeroplane Faults" by Artur Gower
- 2 November: "Survival Trees" by Alberto Alvarez
- 9 November: "Methods for Discovering Mutations & Signatures of Hybridisation in DNA" by Dr Tim Downing
- 16 November: "Mathematical Analysis of Some Models for Drug Delivery" by Tuoi Vo
- 24 November: "The Rubik's Cube" by Brendan Masterson
- 30 November: "Automorphisms of the Sylvester Matrix and Related Designs" by Ronan Egan
- 14 December: "The Journey of RNA" by Thong Nguyen
- 21 December: Christmas Party
- 18 January: "Logs" by Kevin Doherty
- 8 February: Final Year Project Blitz Talks
- 8 March: "My Favourite Jacobians and how they gave me a Career in Mathematics" by Dr Petri Piiroinen
- 15 March: "The Genetics of Autoimmunity" by Peter Keane
- 22 March: "Seasonal Migration Modelling" by John Donohue
2011/2012
- 23 September: "Party with the Mob" by Alberto Alvarez
- 7 October: "Evidence for Intron Length Conservation in a set of Mammalian Genes Associated with Embryonic Development" by Paul Korir
- 14 October: "Design Theory" by Padraig Ó Catháin
- 21 October: "Lovely Shapes: Classification of Connected Compact 2-Manifolds" by Tom Shanahan
- 28 October: Jorge Bruno
- 11 November: "The Mechanics of Skin" by Prof. Michel Destrade
- 18 November: "Missing Data and Multiple Imputation" by Eoghan O'Brien
- 25 November: "Cholesky, Tausky, Todd, Toeplitz and Turing: A Story of Love, Death, Wars, and Matrix Factorisations" by Dr Niall Madden
- 20 January: "The Fun and Games of Linear Groups" by Barry Hurley
- 17 February: "Fast Cars, Cocaine and Supermodels: Improving Gene Expression Estimates from DNA Microarrays" by Paul Geeleher
- 24 February: "Infinite Groups" by Dr Claas Roever
- 2 March: "Surfaces, Structures and Simplicial Maps between Non-separating Curves Graphs" by Jesus Hernandez Hernandez
- "Fractals" by Dr Patrick Browne
- "A Combinatorial Approach to Minimal Triangulations" by Sonia Balagopalan
2010/2011
- 17 September: "State based dynamics and flat equations" by Tobias Rossmann
- 24 September: "On Bachet's Weighing Problem" by Jorge Bruno
- 1 October: "Simple groups of functions" by Claas Roever
- 8 October: "Discontinuity Geometry" by Neil Humphries
- 15 October: "Mathematical Yoga" by Jim Cruickshank
- 22 October: "Lie Algebras and Nilmanifolds" by Patrick Browne
- 29 October: "An introduction to Ramsey Theory" by Padraig Ó Catháin
- 5 November: "Teaching a robot to walk" by Petri Piiroinen
- 12 November: "Designing Observational Studies" by Cara Dooley
- 19 November: "Invasion of the body switchers: yet more applications of group theory" by Jonny McLaughlin
- 26 November: "Tournaments that admit a unique Hamiltonian circuit" by Paul Wilson
- 3 December: Christmas dinner
- 10 December: "Mathematical modelling of drug delivery" by Vo Thi Ngoc Tuoi
- 17 December: "Dynamics of Regulatory and Signalling Pathways in the Cell" by Kevin Doherty
- 14 January: "Brion's Formula and miraculous cancellation" by Jorge Bruno
- 21 January: "Mathematics and Music" by Barry Hurley
- 28 January: "A new family of regular subgroups" by Padraig Ó Catháin
- 4 February: "Sperner and Tucker: Combinatorial lemmata in topology" by David Quinn
- 11 February: "A historical overview of vertex operator algebras" by Tom Gilroy
- 18 February: "Survival analysis and the economic crisis" by Alberto Alvarez Iglesias
- 25 February: "Modal Logic" by Emil Skoldberg
- 4 March: A screening of "Mad Maths II and III".
- 11 March: "Drakes equation and other amusements" by Patrick Browne.
- 25 March: "Cows and Symmetric Spaces" by Johnny Burns.
- 1 April: "The Big Bang" by Kevin Doherty.
- 8 April: "Design theory" by Anamari Nakic and Andrea Svob.
- 15 April: "Lattices of subgroups" by Imke Toborg.
- 29 April: "The cosmic censorship hypothesis" by Luoise Nolan.
- 6 May: "The Big Bang II" by Patrick Browne.
- 13 May: "Spin representations of symmetric groups" by Lukas Maas.
2009/2010
- 2 October: "Introduction to computational graph theory" by Marcus Bishop
- 14 October: "Understanding prime numbers through differentiation and quadratic functions" by Edwin O'Shea
- 16 October: "Much ado about nothing - a history of zero" by Neil Humphries
- 30 October: "Don't cry for me Argentina - forcing in set theory" by Jorge Bruno
- 6 November: "Stoke's Theorem" by Patrick "P" Browne
- 20 November: "Parallel computing" by Marcus Bishop
- 4 December: "Clustering in higher dimensions" by James Taylor
- 15 December: Christmas dinner
- 15 January: "Artin's conjecture" by Mark Dickinson
- 22 January: "As few weights to weigh them all - Bachet's problem" by Edwin O'Shea
- 29 January: "Quorum sensing in bacteria" by Kevin Doherty
- 12 February: "Bachet's problem - part II" by Edwin O'Shea
- 19 February: "An introduction to cyclotomy" by Padraig Ó Catháin
- 26 February: "Dimension in algebraic combinatorics" by David Quinn
- 5 March: "Artificial Intelligence" by Barry Hurley
- 26 March: "Inequality" by James Ward
- 16 April: "Realisation of weighted graphs" by Jonny McLoughlin
- 30 April: "Consequences of Godel" by Nick Tosh
- 7 May: "Survival analysis and 9/11" by Alberto Alvarez
Thanks to Padraig Ó Catháin for the lists for 2009/2010 and 2010/2011.