Seminar Program

Upcoming seminars:

• Speaker: Daniel Daners (University of Sydney)
  Title: Map projections, an elementary introduction
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 3:30pm, Wednesday 16 May 2012
  Location: 24.103

Past seminars:

2012:

• Speaker: Thiansiri Luangwilai (University of New South Wales)
  Title: Mathematical modelling of self-heating in compost piles
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 9 May 2012


• Speaker: Sergey Ajiev (University of New South Wales)
  Title: Analysis on infinite-dimensional spaces: from qualitative stability to quantitative
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 7 May 2012


• Speaker: Anne Thomas (University of Sydney)
  Title: Lattices in exotic groups
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 18 April 2012


• Speaker: Michael Barnsley (Australian National University)
  Title: The entropy of an overlapping dynamical system
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 29 March 2012


• Speaker: Murray Elder (University of Newcastle)
  Title: Finding short words in the first Grigorchuk group
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 21 March 2012


• Speaker: Michelle Dunbar (University of New South Wales)
  Title: Minimising Propagated Delay in an Integrated Aircraft Routing and Crew Pairing Framework
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 12 March 2012


• Speaker: Amos Koeller (Tuebingen University, Germany)
  Title: Non-integer rectifiability arising from a dimension comparison principle
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 23 February 2012


• Speaker:Rogemar S. Mamon (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
  Title: A weak hidden Markov chain-modulated model with application to asset allocation
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 21 February 2012


• Speaker: Nam Q. Le (Columbia University, USA and Tan Tao University, Vietnam)
  Title: The nature of singularities for type-I mean curvature flow
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 20 January 2012

2011:

• Speaker: Barry Cox (University of Adelaide)
  Title: Drilling odd n-gon holes and forced double-walled nanotube oscillators
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 4 October 2011


• Speaker: Vladimir Gaitsgory (University of South Australia)
  Title: On Singularly Perturbed Linear Programming and Optimal Control Problems
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 23 September 2011


• Speaker: Fatemah Mofarreh (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Study on infinitesimal rigid motions of euclidean submanifolds
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 16 September 2011


• Speaker: Roslyn Hickson (Australian National University)
  Title: North QLD: nothing beats the infectious disease transmission
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 25 August 2011


• Speaker: Christine O'Keefe (CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics)
  Title: Comparison of Remote Analysis with Statistical Disclosure Control for Protecting the Confidentiality of Business Data
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 28 July 2011


• Speaker: Andrew Simoson (King College, Bristol, TN, USA)
  Title: Voltaire's Riddle and the shape of the earth
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 21 July 2011


• Speaker: Anne Thomas (University of Sydney)
  Title: A discussion on graphs of groups and their fundamental groups
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 23 May 2011


• Speaker: Mat Langford (Australian National University)
  Title: Non-collapsing in mean-convex mean curvature flow
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 18 May 2011


• Speaker: Guo Hua Zhang (University of New South Wales and Fudan University)
  Title: Asymptotic Behaviour in Topological Dynamics
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 13 May 2011


• Speaker: Irina Dumitrescu (University of Melbourne)
  Title: The open pit mining production scheduling problem with block processing selectivity
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 28 April 2011


• Speaker: Scott McCue (Queensland University of Technology)
  Title: A crystal finger with surface tension: a gentle example of exponential asymptotics
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 12 April 2011


• Speaker: Magnus Landstad (NTNU, Norway)
  Title: A crossed-product approach to the Cuntz-Li algebras
  Abstract: PDF
  Date: 31 January 2011

2010:

• Speaker: Michael Whittaker (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Spectral triples associated with hyperbolic dynamical systems
  Date: 8 September 2010


• Speaker: Amos Koeller (University of Tübingen, Germany)
  Title: On the regularity of mean curvature flows with Neumann free boundary conditions
  Date: 26 August 2010


• Speaker: Alex Kumjian (University of Nevada, Reno, USA)
  Title: Hausdorff Measures and KMS states
  Date: 5 August 2010


• Speaker: Pedram Hekmati (University of Adelaide)
  Title: A deformation of loop groups and their representations
  Date: 2 August 2010


• Speaker: Daniel Sevcovic (Comenius University, Slovakia)
  Title: On the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation arising from the optimal portfolio selection problem
  Date: 3 March 2010


• Speaker: Sooran Kang (University of Wollongong)
  Title: The Yang-Mills functional and Laplace's equation on quantum Heisenberg manifolds
  Date: 26 February 2010


• Speaker: James McCoy (University of Wollongong)
  Title: Curvature contraction of convex hypersurfaces
  Date: 25 February 2010


• Speaker: Maria Athanassenas (Australia National University)
  Title: Capillarity and mean curvature flow with constraints
  Date: 18 February 2010