The annual meeting of the Irish Mathematical Society will this year take place in University College Dublin. The two day programme will consist of a mixture of short (25min) and long (50min) talks on a variety of topics which should be of general mathematical interest.
There will be a conference dinner on the Monday evening (7:30pm) at The Schoolhouse restaurant in Ballsbridge.
Invited Speakers
- David Armitage (QUB)
- Geraldo Botelho (Valencia, Spain & Uberlândia, Brazil)
- Stephen Buckley (NUIM)
- Claire Gormley (UCD)
- Peter Lynch (UCD)
- Ciaran Mac an Bhaird (NUIM)
- Martin Mathieu (QUB)
- Anca Mustata (Urbana Champaign)
- Shane O'Rourke (Cork IT)
- Robert Osburn (UCD)
- Keith Weber (Rutgers, USA)
- Huizhong Wu (DCU)
Location [GPS]
All talks will take place in Room ENG326 of the Engineering building. Engineering is marked as building 49 on the UCD campus map
Programme
| Monday 3rd September | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Registration and Coffee |
| 10:30 | Opening address - Gary Crawley (SFI) |
| 11:00-11:50 | D. Armitage Unfinished business: some open questions in classical analysis Abstract |
| 12:00-12:25 | S. O'Rourke The equation x^{p}y^{q}=z^{r} in tree-free groups Abstract |
| 12:30-12:55 | C. Mac an Bhaird 'Gauss' method for the determination of the minimal polynomial of the Gaussian period Abstract |
| Lunch | |
| 2:00-2:50 | P. Lynch Calculating the Weather: the Mathematics of Atmospheric Modelling Abstract |
| 3:00-3:25 | H.Z. Wu Large fluctuations in stochastic dynamical systems Abstract |
| 3:30 | Coffee |
| 4:00-4:50 | K. Weber How do students learn to understand formal mathematical concepts? |
| 5:00-6:15 | IMS Committee Meeting |
| Tuesday 4th September | |
| 9:30-9:55 | A. Mustata On spaces of rational curves and their cohomology Abstract |
| 10:00-10:25 | S. Buckley Nonpositive curvature on metric spaces Abstract |
| Coffee | |
| 11:00-11:50 | G. Botelho Ideals of homogeneous polynomials from a historical viewpoint Abstract |
| 12:00-12:50 | IMS annual general meeting |
| Lunch | |
| 2:00-2:50 | R. Osburn Ramanujan, partitions, and overpartitions Abstract |
| 3:00-3:30 | Coffee |
| 3:30-3:55 | C. Gormley Exploring voting blocs in the Irish electorate: a statistical modelling approach Abstract |
| 4:00-4:25 | M. Mathieu A multivariable Cayley--Hamilton theorem Abstract |
Accommodation Information (distance from UCD)
- Hotels
- Montrose hotel (300m)
- SAS Radisson (1km)
- Bewley's hotel, Ballsbridge (2.5km)
- Guesthouses and B&Bs
- El Carmen, 164 Stillorgan road, Tel: 353 1 269 2876 (600m)
- Hazelhurst, 166 Stillorgan road, Tel: 353 1 283 8509 (600m)
- Mrs Moher, 23 Woodbine Avenue, Tel: 353 1 269 1729 (500m)
- Mrs Mona Crowe, Hunestown House, 16 Nutley Lane, Stillorgan, Co.Dublin. Tel: 353 1 2600539
- Donnybrook Lodge, 131 Stillorgan Road, Donnybrook, Dublin 4. Tel: 353 1 2837333
Organizing Committee
For any queries, email the committee or contact one of the members below.
