Mathematics
Research Seminar Archive 2008
Please see below information and abstracts from our 2008 Research Seminar Program. If you have questions about any events listed please contact the Research Seminar Program Coordinator.
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Semester 1 |
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| Date | Presenter | Title | Abstract |
| 29 Jan | Frank Ruskey University of Victoria |
Combinatorial Gray codes based on one-way prefix shifts | abstract |
| 14 Feb | Moshe Rosenfeld University of Washington, Tacoma |
How widely and how evenly can you spread your chopsticks? | abstract |
| 18 Feb | Dr Warren B. Moors University of Auckland, New Zealand |
Rich families, W-spaces and the product of Baire spaces | abstract |
| 21 Feb | Thomas Weigel Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca |
Totally disconnected, locally compact groups and profinite groups | abstract |
| 28 Feb | Dr Magnus Lanstadt Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Can a function and its Fourier transform both have compact support? And other questions with the same answer | abstract |
| 6 Mar | Kazimierz Goebel UMCS, Lublin, Poland |
What more can be said about Lipschitz conditions | abstract |
| 14 Mar | Professor Jonathan Borwein The University of Newcastle |
Pi Day | abstract |
| 27 Mar | Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio University of Ballarat, Australia |
Advances in the degree/diameter problem | abstract |
| 3 Apr | Jim MacDougall The University of Newcastle |
Sparse Magic Squares | abstract |
| 15 May | Dr Marcelo Laca Victoria University, Canada |
Boundary quotients and Cuntz's QN | abstract |
| 5 Jun | Prof Andrew Eberhard RMIT |
Some Observation on C{1,1} Smoothing and Experiments in Nonsmooth Optimization | abstract |
| 12 Jun | O-Yeat Chan Dalhousie University |
Duality in Tails of Multiple Zeta Values | abstract |
| 23 Jun | Prof Peter Ramadge Princeton University, USA |
Advanced Signal Processing Problems in Functional MRI Analysis | abstract |
| 26 Jun | Lingyun Ye FCS Dalhousie University |
Numerical Quadrature using double-exponential substitutions | abstract |
| 3 Jul | Prof Jonathan Borwein Dalhousie University and the University of Newcastle |
Proximality and Chebyshev Sets | abstract |
Semester 2 |
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| Date | Presenter | Title | Abstract |
| 17 Jul | Frank Garvan University of Florida |
Partition Congruences old and new | abstract |
| 29 Jul TUE |
Scharnagel Prof Chris Rodger Auburn University |
Cycle Systems - Some recent progress | abstract |
| 18 Aug MON |
Dr Tony Weston Canisius College, Buffalo, New York |
Determining lower bounds on the maximal p-negative type of finite metric spaces | abstract |
| 21 Aug | Prof Jonathan Borwein Dalhousie University and the University of Newcastle |
My Experiences with Mathematical Software | abstract |
| 28 Aug | Dr Ian Benn The University of Newcastle |
Integrable Systems and Killing Tensors | abstract |
| 4 Sep | A/Prof Sinai Robins Temple University |
Summing local solid angles to retrieve global information about polytopes | abstract |
| 11 Sep | Dr Hamish Waterer University of Auckland, New Zealand |
Mixed integer programming models for wind farm design | abstract |
| 29 Sep | Faram Engineer Georgia Institute of Technology, USA |
Shortest path based column generation on large networks with many resource constraints | abstract |
| 23 Oct | A/Prof Henrik Kragh Sørensen University of Aarhus, Denmark |
Romantic Equations and the Rise of Concept-Centred Mathematics | abstract |
| 5 Nov WED |
Dr Ivan Dynov ANU Canberra |
Type III_1 factors generated by regular representations of the infinite-dimensional group $B_0^\mathbb Z$ | abstract |
| 6 Nov | Miroslav Bacak Charles University, Prague |
Complementability of spaces of affine continuous functions on simplices | abstract |
| FYI 3:30pm Wednesday November 12th the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science seminar in ES232: Prof Wal Wallis of Southern Illinois University, USA "Bimagic Labelings" | |||
| 20 Nov | Prof Brian Alspach The University of Newcastle |
Hamilton paths in vertex-transitive graphs | abstract |
| 27 Nov | Brendan Magee Honours Seminar |
The Fermion Algebra and The Ising Model | abstract |
| Riley Clement Honours Seminar |
A mobile machine scheduling problem with collision avoidance | abstract | |
