Colloquium Program
Upcoming colloquia:
- Speaker: James M. Hill (University of Adelaide)
Title: Einstein's special relativity beyond the speed of light
Abstract: PDF
Room: 32-G01
Time and Date: 3:30pm, Friday 21 March, 2014
Past colloquia:
2014:
- Speaker: Marianito Rodrigo (University of Wollongong)
Title: A one-compartment model for body cooling and a method for estimating the time of death based only on temperature readings
Abstract: PDF
Date: 24 January 2014
- Speaker: Roman Fric (Slovak Academy of Sciences in Kosice/Catholic University in Ruzomberok)
Title: Measure & measurabilty & probability
Abstract: PDF
Date: 17 January 2014
- Speaker: Scott Frank (Marist College)
Title: Marine mammal and earthquake localization using parabolic equation solutions
Abstract: PDF
Date: 10 January 2014
2013:
- Speaker: James Parkinson (University of Sydney)
Title: Generalised polygons
Abstract: PDF
Date: 29 November 2013
- Speaker: Glen Wheeler (University of Wollongong)
Title: Toward a general theory for higher-order curvature flow
Abstract: PDF
Date: 15 November 2013
- Speaker: Timothy Trudgian (Australian National University)
Title: Towards Goldbach and Twin Primes
Abstract: PDF
Date: 25 October 2013
- Speaker: Yann Bernard (University of Freiburg)
Title: On the Willmore Functional
Abstract: PDF
Date: 18 October 2013
- Speaker: Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford University) — AMSI Mahler Lecture Tour
Title: How to stack oranges in three dimensions, 24 dimensions, and beyond
Abstract: PDF
Date: 11 October 2013
- Speaker: Akshay Venkatesh (Stanford University) — AMSI Mahler Lecture Tour
Title: Torsion in the homology of arithmetic groups
Abstract: PDF
Date: 11 October 2013
- Speaker: Mary Myerscough (University of Sydney)
Title: The Mathematics of Honey Bee House Hunting: Scale and Complexity in Modelling Social Insects
Abstract: PDF
Date: 27 September 2013
- Speaker: Aaron Thornton (CSIRO)
Title: Let's solve issues in energy, water and the environment with a little bit of Math
Abstract: PDF
Date: 24 September 2013
- Speaker: George Willis (University of Newcastle)
Title: Classifying Symmetry
Abstract: PDF
Date: 6 September 2013
- Speaker: Noel Cressie (University of Wollongong)
Title: Predicting a Spatial Quantile and its Exceedance Region in the Presence of Uncertainty
Abstract: PDF
Date: 2 August 2013
- Speaker: Robert Smith? (University of Ottawa)
Title: When Zombies Attack! Mathematical Modelling of an outbreak of zombie infection
Abstract: PDF
Date: 26 July 2013
- Speaker: Adam Sørensen (University of Wollongong/University of Copenhagen)
Title: Matrices that almost commute
Abstract: PDF
Date: 28 June 2013
- Speaker: Murray Elder (University of Newcastle)
Title: Extending the concept of an automatic group
Abstract: PDF
Date: 14 June 2013
- Speaker: Anne Thomas (University of Sydney)
Title: 3-manifolds, cube complexes and lattices
Abstract: PDF
Date: 19 April 2013
- Speaker: Ray Withers (Australian National University)
Title: Order and `disorder’, a chemist's view: what we know, what we don’t know and what we (often wrongly!) assume.
Abstract: PDF
Date: 26 April 2013
- Speaker: Zhiyuan (Terry) Liu (Monash University)
Title: Optimal Toll Design Problem of Urban Congestion Pricing
Abstract: PDF
Date: 8 March 2013
- Speaker: Lisa Orloff Clark (University of Otago)
Title: Spectral properties of C*-algebras associated to groupoids
Abstract: PDF
Date: 22 February 2013
- Speaker: Keith Devlin (Stanford Univeristy) — AMSI National AGR Seminar Series
Title: What do K-12 education, the modern battlefield, the movie Memento, and a 64,000 student Stanford MOOC have in common?
Abstract: PDF
Date: 11 February 2013
- Speaker: Gene Abrams (University of Colorado) — AMSI National AGR Seminar Series
Title: Leavitt path algebras - Something for everyone: algebra, analysis, graph theory, number theory
Abstract: PDF
Date: 8 February 2013
2012:
- Speaker:Dana Williams (Dartmouth College)
Title: The Equivariant Brauer Group
Abstract: PDF
Date: 30 November 2012
- Speaker:Xiang Xu (Michigan State University)
Title: Mathematical analysis for fractional diffusion equations: modeling, forward problems and inverse problems
Abstract: PDF
Date: 23 November 2012
- Speaker:Gus Lehrer (University of Sydney)
Title: The fundamental theorems of invariant theory and the Brauer category
Abstract: PDF
Date: 15 November 2012
- Speaker: Andrew Francis (University of Western Sydney)
Title: Bacterial genome evolution with algebra!?
Abstract: PDF
Date: 2 November 2012
- Speaker: Scott Morrison (Australian National University)
Title: Knots and quantum computation
Abstract: PDF
Date: 26 October 2012
- Speaker: Douglas Rogers (University of Hawaii)
Title: Archimedes' Stomachion: The World's Oldest Puzzle
Abstract: PDF
Date: Thursday 27 September 2012
- Speaker: Marianito Rodrigo (University of Wollongong)
Title: Valuation of American options with general payoff functions
Abstract: PDF
Date:12 September 2012
- Speaker: Daniel Daners (University of Sydney)
Title: Map projections, an elementary introduction
Abstract: PDF
Date: Wednesday 16 May 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