Previous Seminars and Colloquia at the School of Mathematical Sciences

12 noon Friday 12 November 2010, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Beyond the classical El Niño
Dr Dietmar Dommenget (Monash University)

10am Friday 29 October 2010, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Transition-phase climate regimes and teleconnections
Dr Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang (Utah Climate Centre)

11am Friday 29 October 2010, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
What makes wind flop around?
Dr Danijel Belusic (University of Zagreb)

5pm–6.30pm Tuesday 19 October 2010, Room G23, Building 6, Clayton campus
Mathematics Education Colloquium Series 2010
Mathematics for prospective primary teachers: What and who? Panel discussion
Prof Kate Smith-Miles, Dr Burkard Polster, A/Prof Barbara Clarke, Prof Peter Sullivan (Monash University)

3pm Tuesday 7 September 2010, Lecture Room E1, Building 32, Clayton campus
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Extra-solar planets: from gaseous giants to super-Earths
Prof Stéphane Udry (Geneva Observatory)

12 noon Tuesday 27 July 2010, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Graph decomposition problems
Dr Daniel Horsley (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

11am Tuesday 27 July 2010, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Symmetry and finite geometry
Dr John Bamberg (University of Western Australia)

3pm Thursday 22 July 2010, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Inner Steiner formula for polytopes with an application to self-affine fractal tilings
Prof Andrei V. Ratiu (Istanbul Bilgi University)

3pm Tuesday 20 July 2010, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Statistics Seminar
Local times of Brownian motion in one and two dimensions
Dr Gregory Markowsky (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea)

3pm Thursday 1 April 2010, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Extinction, persistence, and evolution: Mathematical ideas from the legacy of Malthus, Darwin, and Galton
Prof Peter Jagers (Chalmers University of Technology)

3pm Thursday 8 Oct 2009, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
On Langmuir circulation and generalized Lagrangian mean theory
Prof William R.C. Phillips (Swinburne University of Technology)

3pm Thursday 24 September 2009, S2 Lecture Theatre, Building 25
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Is all motion relative?
Prof Donald Lynden-Bell (IoA, Cambridge)

2.30pm Wednesday 2 September 2009, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Discrete random matrices
Prof Terry Tao (University of California, Los Angeles, 2009 Clay-Mahler lecturer)

3pm Thursday 13 August 2009, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Developments in mathematical capillarity in the (no-more that) new millennium
Dr Maria Athanassenas (Monash University)

3pm Thursday 23 April 2009, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Structured eigenvalue problems: solution and applications
Dr Eric Chu (Monash University)

3pm Thursday 26 March 2009, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Furry black holes
Prof Elizabeth Winstanley (University of Sheffield)

1pm Tuesday 10 March 2009, Lecture theatre S4 - Building 25, Clayton Campus
School of Mathematical Sciences Public Lecture
The structure of three dimensional curved space
Prof Klaus Ecker (Free University Berlin and Monash)

3pm Thursday 26 February 2008, Seminar room M345
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Automated deduction and research mathematics
Prof Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver

3pm Thursday 6 November 2008, Lecture theatre S14
School of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium
Beads on runners
Prof Arun Ram, Melbourne University

Thursday 02/10/2008, 3pm, M345

Verifiable counting of encrypted votes
Vanessa Teague
Melbourne University

Thursday 28/08/2008, 3pm, M345

Adventures in wave physics
David Paganin
School of Physics, Monash University

Thursday 07/08/2008, 3pm, M345

Poisson's remarkable calculation -- a trick or a method?
Denis Bell
University of Florida

Thursday 06/03/2008, 3pm, M345

Einstein relation on the Sierpinski gasket
Uta Freiberg
Friedrich Schiller University, Jena

Thursday 21/02/2008, 3pm, M345

A Mahler's theorem for functions from words to integers
Jean-Eric Pin
CNRS and University of Paris

Thursday 30/08/2007, 3pm, M345

The cumulus parametrisation problem in atmospheric general circulation models
Prof. Christian Jacob
School of Mathematical Sciences

Thursday 07/06/2007, 3pm, M345

Post-Newtonian Expansions for Perfect Fluids
Todd A Oliynyk
School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University

Thursday 19/04/2007, 3pm, M345

Coil-Stretch Transition and the Break Down of Continuum Models
Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan
Chemical Engineering, Monash

Thursday 29/03/2007, 3pm, M345,

Mistake bounds and compression in learning theory
Prof J.H. Rubinstein
The University of Melbourne

Monday 30/10/2006, 3pm, Lecture Room S14 (** not the usual day OR venue **)

Functional Calculi of Families of Matrices and Operators
Prof Alan McIntosh
ANU

Thursday 14/09/2006, 3pm, M345

Applications and Techniques in Discrete Optimisation
A/Prof Natashia Boland
University of Melbourne

Thursday 31/08/2006, 3pm, M345

An isoperimetric concept for the mass in General Relativity
Gerhard Huisken
Director, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam

Thursday 17/08/2006, 3pm, M345

Computable Numbers
David Albrecht
Faculty of Information Technology, Monash

Thursday 27/07/2006, 3pm, M345

Computational fluid dynamics for pleasure and profit
Murray Rudman
CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology

Thursday 01/06/2006, 3pm, M345

A new estimate on electrostatic capacity and its application in general relativity
Dr. Pengzi Miao
School of Mathematical Sciences
Monash University

Thursday 04/05/2006, 3pm, M345

Long cycles in random graphs
Prof Nick Wormald
University of Waterloo, Canada

Thursday 13/04/2006, 3pm, M345

Euler Played Sudoko Too!
Dr Ian Wanless
Monash Fellow
School of Mathematical Sciences
Monash University

Thursday 20/10/2005, 3pm, M345

TBA topic on forecasting functional data
Professor Rob J Hyndman
Department of Econometrics & Business Statistics, Monash University.

Thursday 15/09/2005, 3pm, M345

What value is mathematics?
Professor Alan Bishop
Centre for Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, Monash University

Thursday 18/08/2005, 3pm, M345

Instabilities and transition of pulsatile flow stenotic flow
Dr Hugh Blackburn
CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology.

Thursday 21/07/2005, 3pm, M345

Modelling drop-drop interactions in an Atomic Force Microscope
Dr. Steven Carnie
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne.

Thursday 19/05/2005, 3pm, M345

Mass definition under minimal conditions
Professor Robert Bartnik, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University.

Thursday 21/04/2005, 3pm, M345

Control of mean sea level by net evaporation during greenhouse warming
Dr John A.T. Bye, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne.

Thursday 17/03/2005, 3pm, M345

Bounds on the energy budget of the core from geodesy and geomagnetism
Dr Andrew Jackson, School of Earth and Environment: Earth Sciences, University of Leeds, UK.

Thursday 21/10/2004, 3pm, M345

Brain Dynamics and the Electroencephalogram
Dr David Liley, School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology.

Thursday 16/09/2004, 3pm, M345

Forty years of global CO₂ inversions: What have we learned? Prof. Ian Enting, Centre for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems, University of Melbourne

Thursday 12/08/2004, 3pm, M345

The Line made interesting, Prof. John Stillwell, Department of Mathematics, University of San Francisco.

Thursday 20/05/2004, 3pm, M345

Mathematical modelling of Baseball and some comments on Cricket,Assoc. Prof. Bruce Bukiet, Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Thursday 29/04/2004, 3pm, M345

Oh, what a tangled web. The network model of complexity.
Prof. David Green, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University.

Thursday 18/03/2004, 3 pm, M345

A view of the Sun from Monash, Professor Paul Cally, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University.