Mathematics
Research Seminar Archive 2010

Mathematics research seminars are held on Thursdays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm in Room V129 of the Mathematics Building, unless otherwise specified. If you have questions about any events listed, or wish to enquire about future seminars on particular topics, please contact the Research Seminar Program Coordinator.

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Additonal Access Grid Room (AGR) seminars from other Universities are also held on a regular basis. These will only be shown if enough interest has been expressed in advance. Notices about upcoming AGR seminars will be  sent out via the mailing list, inviting you to confirm your interest in specific seminars to the coordinator. Details will be published on the CARMA website. Full information about the AGR seminar program, including abstracts, is published in the Access Grid Seminars page of the ICE-EM website.

Semester 1

Date Presenter Title Abstract

28 Jan

Laureate Professor Jon Borwein

Douglas-Ratchford iterations in the absence of convexity

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11 Feb

Jerzy A. Filar,

Foundation Chair of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Australia

The Hamiltonian Cycle Problem And Some Challenging Non-Convex Programs

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19 Feb

Randall J. LeVeque, 

Applied Mathematics Department, University of Washington

High-Resolution Finite Volume Methods and Applications to Tsunami Modeling

abstract

Wednesday
22nd and 24th March
4:00pm

Terry Rockafellar,

Department of Mathematics, The University of Washington

The Fundamental Quadrangle of Risk in Optimization and Estimation
Lecture 1: Quantifications of Risk in Stochastic Optimization.            Lecture 2: Quantifications of Error in Generalized Regression and Estimation

abstract

11 March

Professor George Willis,

Is time necessary?

abstract

Wednesday
17 March
6:00pm

Tracey Giles,

Hunter Valley Coal Chain Coordinator

Hunter Valley Coal Chain Coordinator: An Overview

abstract

18 March

Laureate Professor Jon Borwein

Thirty Two Goldbach Variations

abstract

22 March
4:00pm

Dr Thomas Kalinowski

A minimum cost flow formulation for approximated multileaf

abstract

25 March

Dr Miroslav Bacak

Weak topology on CAT(0) spaces

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30 March 1:00pm 

Dr Miroslav Bacak

Metric projections onto convex sets

abstract

31 March 3:00pm

Laureate Professor Jon Borwein     University of Newcastle

Multiple Zeta Values

 

15 April

Prof Brian Alspach                          University of Newcastle

Three Hamilton Decomposition Problems

abstract

22 April

Nikolai Kruzhilin                                  Steklov Mathematics Institute         Russian Academy o Sciences

Holomorphic maps of Reinhardt domains

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06 May

Assoc Prof Wadim Zudilin             University of Newcastle

Dedekind's eta function and Rogers--Ramanujan identities

abstract

20 May

Prof Wal Wallis                                 Southern Illinois University

Champions in Graphs

abstract

27 May

Dr Sinai Robins                           National University of Singapore

When does an arithmetic progression through an infinite sequence remember the whole sequence

 

abstract

03 Jun

Dr Sinai Robins                           National University of Singapore

Polyhedral cones, their theta functions, and what they tell us about polytopes

abstract

07 Jun      3pm

Dr Judy-anne Osborn                           Mathematical Sciences Institute Australian National University

Searching for Maximal Determinant Matrices 

abstract

08 Jun        1pm V205

Dr Ian Benn                                   University of Newcastle

A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Curvature 

09 Jun      3pm V205

Ben Tillman                                 University of Newcastle

Connecting configuration spaces with modular forms Part 2 

10 Jun      4pm V10

Prof Michael Barnsley        Mathematical Sciences Institute           Australian National University

Theory and Applications of Fractal Transformations 

abstract

11 Jun     10.30am V10

Prof Michael Barnsley        Mathematical Sciences Institute           Australian National University

Real projective iterated function systems  

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16 Jun     3.30pm V206

Leo Lopes                                     Monash University

Applications of Scenario Trees Old and New: Electricty Pricing and Epidemiology  

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16 Jun     6.00pm V206

Simon Dunstall                                   CSIRO

Developing a Transport Infrastructure Planning System  

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17 Jun     V206

Prof David Yang Gao                University of Ballarat             (presenting from RMIT AGR)

A canonical duality theory for solving a class of optimization and control problems in complex systems  

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24 Jun     V206

Prof Stephen Wright                  University of Wisconsin-Madison    

More Tools and Applications of Sparse Optimization    

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Semester 2

Date Presenter Title Abstract