Mathematics Seminar 2006/2007, 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 Áras de Brún (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.

The current list of planned seminars can be found at http://hamilton.nuigalway.ie/seminars.html. Last year's seminars are listed here.

Date:

Abstract:

14 September 2006 (Two talks. Note times)

3.00pm sharp
Florian Reithinger (LMU München)
"Semi-structured mixed models for high dimensional covariates"
Contact: Jochen Einbeck

4.10pm
Geoff Mason (UC Santa Cruz)
"Some representations of the modular group, and applications"
Contact: Michael Tuite
Date:

Abstract

21  September 2006

Dmitri Shakhmatov (Ehime University, Japan)
"Zariski and Markov topologies on groups"
Contact: Aisling McCluskey
Date:


28 September 2006

Pablo Fernandez Ascariz (Univ. Santiago de Compostella)
"Crossed modules of commutative algebras"
Contact: Graham Ellis
Date:

6 October 2006 (This is a Friday morning!)

The Computational Homology Group (CHA) is hosting research presentations by:
  • Stefan Kohl (Stuttgart)
  • Duncan Parkes (Leicester)
  • Marc Roeder (Kaiserslautern)
  • Paul Smith (Oxford)
  • Martijn Vanmanen (Hokkaido)
in Room AM205. The presentations will start at 10am and end at 12.20pm.
Date:

Abstract:

12 October

Jean-Baptiste Gramain (University of Aberdeen)
"Nakayama Conjectures in the symmetric and general linear group."

Contact: Goetz Pfeiffer

Date:

Abstract:

19 October 2006
Chris Brien (University of South Australia)

Multiple Randomizations

Contact: John Hinde
Date:



26 October 2006

Michael Tuite (NUIG)

The Virasoro Algebra and some Exceptional Lie and Finite Groups

POSTPONED

Date:


2 November 2006

Russell Higgs (Univ. College Dublin)
"Problems concerning degrees of projective representations"
Contact: Dane Flannery

Date:


9 November 2006

John Burns (NUIG)
"Dynkin diagrams, recurrence relations and Pluecker formulae"
Date:

16 November 2006

Gary McGuire (UCD)
" Some Results on Fourier Transforms over Finite Fields"
Contact: Dane Flannery

Postponed
Date:

23 November 2006

David Quinn (NUIG)
"Hochschild resolutions for a class of commutative algebras."
Date:

Abstract:

27 November 2006 (This is a Monday)

Stephen Glasby (Central Washington University)
"Writing projective representations over subfields"
Contact: Rachel Quinlan
Date:

30 November 2006

Michael Tuite (NUIG)

"The Virasoro Algebra and some Exceptional Lie and Finite Groups"

Date:

7 December 2006

Ian Short (NUIM)
"Reversibility of circle homeomorphisms"
Contact: Graham Ellis


Date:

Abstract

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Abstract
18 January 2007 (Three talks: note times)

2.00pm
E. Marian Scott (Univ. Glasgow)
"Environmental Change and statistical trends"

2.40pm
Adrian Bowman (Univ. Glasgow)
"Statistics witha human face"
Contact: John Hinde

3.45pm
Andrea Caranti (Univ. Trento)
"Primitivity of the permutation group generated by the round functions of Rijndeal / AES"
Date:
25 January 2007

Postgraduate poster session
Date:

Abstract
1 February 2007

Paul Smith (NUIG)
"Monocular Three-dimensional Tracking in Sports Events using Shadows"
Date:
15 February 2007

Gary McGuire (UCD)
" Some Results on Fourier Transforms over Finite Fields"
Contact: Dane Flannery
Date:
22 February 2007

Graham Ellis (NUIG)
"Some computational group cohomology"
Date:
St David's Day 2007

Sebastian Klein (UCC)
"
The classification of totally geodesic submanifolds in the complex quadric"
Contact: David O'Keefe
Date:
22 March 2007

Dirk Werner (FU Berlin)
"Banach spaces of Lipschitz function"
Date:
29 March 2007

Alla Detinko (NUIG)
"Computing with matrix groups"
Date:
12 April 2007

Andrea Mindnich (Kaiserslautern)
"Searching Ovoids in Hyperbolic
Spaces"

Date:
26 April 2007

Petri Piiroinen (NUIG)
“Nonsmooth dynamical systems – applications and analysis”
 


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