UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics Seminars

Seminars 2008

Morita theory for sesquilinear forms

Dr. Anne Cortella (Besancon)
Wed 9th January 2008 - 4:00PM

Solving Polynomials with Integer Matrices

Raja Mukherji
Wed 23rd January 2008 - 3:00PM

On the Involution Module of PSL(n,2^f)

Lars Pforte (NUI Maynooth)
Mon 28th January 2008 - 4:00PM

On the closed principal ideals of (C(X), K) and (C_b(X), \beta)

H. Arizmendi (UNAM, Mexico)
Tue 29th January 2008 - 3:00PM

Ground state solutions for Gierer-Meinhardt domains

M. Ghergu
Tue 29th January 2008 - 4:15PM

Polynomials on Interpolated Spaces

Cristina Radu
Wed 30th January 2008 - 3:00PM

Counting the Number of Site Swap Juggling Patterns with Respect to Particular Ceilings

Carl Bracken (UCD)
Mon 4th February 2008 - 4:00PM

Compactness properties of operator multipliers

R. Levene (QUB)
Tue 5th February 2008 - 2:30PM

Ground state solutions for Gierer-Meinhardt domains II

M. Ghergu
Tue 5th February 2008 - 4:00PM

Divisibility in Symbol Algebras: An Application of Trace Forms

Ronan Flatley
Wed 6th February 2008 - 3:00PM

On hermitian Pfister forms

Dr. Nicolas Grenier-Boley (Universite Paris 13)
Wed 6th February 2008 - 4:00PM

The Reeh-Schlieder property in curved spacetimes

Jacobus Sanders (University of York)
Thu 7th February 2008 - 2:15PM

The global Conveyor Belt from a Southern Ocean perspective

Daniele Iudicone (Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, Italy)
Thu 7th February 2008 - 4:00PM

An Earnest, Hamming Way to Do Mathematical Magic

Colm Mulcahy (Spelman College)
Mon 11th February 2008 - 4:00PM

On the existence of Shilov boundaries for algebras of holomorphic functions

L. Moraes (Rio de Janeiro)
Tue 12th February 2008 - 3:00PM

Tensor products of Riesz spaces

J. Loan (NUIG)
Tue 12th February 2008 - 4:15PM

The Symmetric Non-Negative Eigenvalue Problem

Anthony Cronin
Wed 13th February 2008 - 3:00PM

Space-Time Block Codes arising from Quadratic Forms

Dr. Thomas Unger (UCD)
Wed 13th February 2008 - 5:00PM

Dual-Doppler Analysis of Two Tornadic Thunderstorms

Katherine Donner-Willingham, University of Oklahoma
Thu 14th February 2008 - 2:15PM

Wave Fronts near a Black Hole

Kirill Ignatiev [UCD]
Fri 15th February 2008 - 12:00PM

a seminar

Joe Bloggs
Sat 16th February 2008 - 3:00PM

Digital Nets, Point Sets and Sequences

Gottlieb Pirsic (Radon Institute, Austria)
Mon 18th February 2008 - 4:00PM

Reversibility of JC*-triples

R. Timoney (TCD)
Tue 19th February 2008 - 2:30PM

Characterisations of Schur and operator multipliers

I. Todorov (QUB)
Tue 19th February 2008 - 4:00PM

Torsion in $K_2$ of fields

Tao Liqun
Wed 20th February 2008 - 3:00PM

Duality involving the mock theta function f(q) and analytic properties of Kloosterman-Selberg zeta functions

Dr. Amanda Folsom (University of Wisconsin)
Wed 20th February 2008 - 4:00PM

The matter-gravity entanglement hypothesis

Bernard Kay (University of York)
Thu 21st February 2008 - 2:15PM

informal discussion group

Bernard Kay (University of York)
Fri 22nd February 2008 - 3:00PM

Deletion-Insertion Correcting Codes and Robust Watermarking

Hans-Georg Schaathun (University of Surrey)
Mon 25th February 2008 - 4:00PM

Holomorphically dependent generalised inverses

M. Venkova
Tue 26th February 2008 - 3:00PM

Properties of m-homogeneous CB polynomials

C. Radu
Tue 26th February 2008 - 4:15PM

Quadrature Domains

Joanna Pres
Wed 27th February 2008 - 3:00PM

How much geometry do viruses know? A conjecture on scar-driven shape-changes of virus capsids

Dr Alfredo Iorio (University of Prage - Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics)
Thu 28th February 2008 - 2:15PM

m-mode regularization scheme for the self force in Kerr spacetime

Journal club
Fri 29th February 2008 - 12:00PM

Algebraic attacks against stream ciphers

Pierre-Louis Cayrel (Université de Limoges)
Mon 3rd March 2008 - 4:00PM

Ascent and descent for noncommuting sets of operators

D. Kitson ITCD)
Tue 4th March 2008 - 3:00PM

Hypergeometric Series and Periods of Elliptic Curves

Dermot Mc Carthy
Wed 5th March 2008 - 3:00PM

Variations of Kummer's conjecture

Dr Marilyn Reece Myers (UCD)
Wed 5th March 2008 - 4:00PM

Information Evening for Prospective Postgraduates

Wed 5th March 2008 - 5:00PM

Black Holes and Gravitational Radiation

Sam Dolan [UCD]
Fri 14th March 2008 - 2:00PM

Mixing oil and water: The new synergy between reflection seismology and oceanography

Steve Jones (TCD)
Thu 20th March 2008 - 2:15PM

Algebras of Integral Holomorphic Functions

Anthony Brown
Wed 26th March 2008 - 3:00PM

Extensions of the Gauss-Wilson theorem

Dr John Cosgrave (http://staff.spd.dcu.ie/johnbcos/)
Wed 26th March 2008 - 5:00PM

The turbulent equilibration of an unstable baroclinic jet

Dr Gavin Esler
Thu 27th March 2008 - 2:15PM

D-branes, Quivers and ALE instantons

Journal club
Fri 28th March 2008 - 3:30PM

Results of Delsarte-Goethals on Sets of Matrices with Good Rank Properties

Gary McGuire (UCD)
Mon 31st March 2008 - 4:00PM

Decomposable mappings between spaces of symmetric tensors in infinite dimensional spaces

C. Boyd
Tue 1st April 2008 - 3:00PM

Galois Theory and Polynomials of Automorphisms

John Sheekey
Wed 2nd April 2008 - 3:00PM

Some effectively computable applications of GRH

Dr Benjamin Kane (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Wed 2nd April 2008 - 5:00PM

Bows and Quivers: Gauge Theories with Impurities.

Dr Sergey Cherkis
Thu 3rd April 2008 - 2:15PM

"An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything"... explained (part I)

Paul Watts [UCD]
Fri 4th April 2008 - 3:30PM

Gaussian periods and finite projective planes

Professor Don Zagier (Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik)
Fri 4th April 2008 - 4:30PM

Cross correlation of m-sequences : An overview and recent results on five-valued correlations

Tor Helleseth (University of Bergen, Norway)
Mon 7th April 2008 - 4:00PM

Competely bounded polynomials

S. Dineen
Tue 8th April 2008 - 3:00PM

The algebraic closure revisited

R. Harte
Tue 8th April 2008 - 4:15PM

Edwards Form Elliptic Curves in Cryptography

Richard Moloney
Wed 9th April 2008 - 3:00PM

Prospects from low-frequency gravitational wave astronomy

Carlos F. Sopuerta (ICE-CSIC,Barcelona)
Thu 10th April 2008 - 2:15PM

Some aspects of the description of sources of gravitational waves

Carlos F. Sopuerta (ICE-CSIC,Barcelona)
Fri 11th April 2008 - 3:00PM

Linear recurring sequence subgroups and automorphisms of cyclic codes

Henk Hollmann (Philips Research Laboratories)
Mon 14th April 2008 - 4:00PM

Kergin approximations

S. Simon (SUNY Stonybrook)
Tue 15th April 2008 - 2:30PM

Holomorphically dependent regularities

M. Venkova
Tue 15th April 2008 - 4:00PM

An Introduction to Codes over Rings

Cathy Mc Fadden
Wed 16th April 2008 - 3:00PM

"An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything"... explained (part II)

Paul Watts [UCD]
Fri 18th April 2008 - 2:00PM

The Mathematical Conceptions of Prospective Teachers in Ireland

Catherine Paolucci
Tue 22nd April 2008 - 3:00PM

The Schur property for spaces of projective tensor products

P. Rueda (Valencia)
Tue 22nd April 2008 - 4:15PM

Point Compression and Multiplication for Pairing Based Cryptography

Steven Galbraith (Royal Hollaway, University of London)
Wed 23rd April 2008 - 4:00PM

Algebraic hypergeometric functions

Professor Frits Beukers (Universiteit Utrecht)
Wed 23rd April 2008 - 5:00PM

Influences of the 11-year sunspot cycle on the stratosphere -- and the importance of the QBO.

Prof Karin Labitzke
Thu 24th April 2008 - 2:15PM

Complex Multiplication Method for Generation of Genus 2 Curves over Finite Fields

Janice Asuncion
Wed 30th April 2008 - 3:00PM

Potential theory of Denjoy domains

S. Gardiner
Tue 6th May 2008 - 3:00PM

Numerical peak points

S. G. Kim
Tue 6th May 2008 - 4:15PM

Aspects of the theory of particle detectors

Calvin Smith [UCD]
Fri 9th May 2008 - 3:00PM

Hermitian lattices and K-theory of the ring of integers of a number field

Julien Houriet (EPFL, Lausanne)
Wed 14th May 2008 - 4:00PM

Marine biogeochemistry: its interaction with Physical Oceanography

Prof Michael Orren (Cardiff)
Thu 22nd May 2008 - 2:15PM

New invariants of Thompson's group $F$

Professor Ross Geoghegan (SUNY, Binghamton)
Mon 26th May 2008 - 4:00PM

Modelling "real" neutron stars; dissipative multi-fluid systems in general relativity

Nils Andersson (Southampton)
Thu 29th May 2008 - 2:15PM

Elastic chains and the standard map: An approach to spatial chaos

Gyorgy Karolyi (University of Aberdeen)
Thu 5th June 2008 - 2:15PM

Hyperbolic algebraic and analytic curves

J. McCarthy (Washington Univ., St. Louis)
Thu 24th July 2008 - 12:00PM

Polynomials between operator spaces

Cristina Radu
Fri 29th August 2008 - 11:00AM

Some aspects of complex analysis in high dimensions

Andreas Defant (Oldenburg)
Fri 29th August 2008 - 3:00PM

Constant rank subspaces of matrices I

Rod Gow (UCD)
Mon 15th September 2008 - 4:00PM

Random groups in number theory and topology

Professor Nigel Boston (UCD)
Wed 17th September 2008 - 3:00PM

Fourier Analysis applied to GPS and MP3

J. M. Ansemil (U. Complutense Madrid)
Fri 19th September 2008 - 3:00PM

Unique factorisation for compact sets of 2-homogeneous polynomials

K. Mikkor (Tartu)
Fri 19th September 2008 - 4:20PM

Constant rank subspaces of matrices 2

Rod Gow
Mon 22nd September 2008 - 4:00PM

Towards a reduced theory of hermitian forms

Dr. Thomas Unger (UCD)
Wed 24th September 2008 - 3:00PM

Modelling Irish Mortality at the Highest Ages.

Dr Shane Whelan (School of Maths Sciences, UCD)
Thu 25th September 2008 - 3:00PM

On the exponent of a cone-preserving map

Raphael Loewy (Technion, Haifa, Israel)
Mon 29th September 2008 - 4:00PM

Weakly dense, norm divergent sequences

R. Aron (Kent & UCD)
Tue 30th September 2008 - 3:00PM

Homotopes of JB*-triples

M. Mackey
Tue 30th September 2008 - 4:20PM

The homology of the special linear group and quadratic forms

Dr. Kevin Hutchinson (UCD)
Wed 1st October 2008 - 3:00PM

Factoring iterates of polynomials

Nigel Boston (UCD)
Mon 6th October 2008 - 4:00PM

Symmetry results for nonlinear elliptic problems and and their consequences

P. J. McKenna (U. Connecticut & TCD)
Tue 7th October 2008 - 2:30PM

Steady state solutions for Gierer-Meinhardt systems

M. Ghergu
Tue 7th October 2008 - 4:00PM

Curves with many rational points

Dr. Alexei Zaytsev (UCD)
Wed 8th October 2008 - 3:00PM

The Maths in your iPod

Prof. Gary McGuire
Mon 13th October 2008 - 12:30PM

On the number of graphs with integral spectrum

Omran Ahmadi (CSI UCD)
Mon 13th October 2008 - 4:00PM

Probable Coincidences: Understanding the role chance plays in each of our lives

Dr Patrick Murphy
Tue 14th October 2008 - 12:30PM

Geometry of Marcinkiewicz spaces

C. Boyd
Tue 14th October 2008 - 3:00PM

Jordan enhanced

R. Harte
Tue 14th October 2008 - 4:20PM

Computing the weather

Prof. Peter Lynch
Wed 15th October 2008 - 12:30PM

Arithmetic aspects of the non-commutative harmonic oscillator

Professor Kazufumi Kimoto (University of Ryukyus / IHES)
Wed 15th October 2008 - 3:00PM

Non-cyclic group ring codes

Ian McLoughlin (NUI Galway)
Mon 20th October 2008 - 4:00PM

Norm and numerical peak holomorphic functions

S. G. Kim
Tue 21st October 2008 - 2:30PM

Cluster sets in infinite dimensions

R. Aron
Tue 21st October 2008 - 4:00PM

Cohomological Invariant Theory

Professor Wilberd van der Kallen (Universiteit Utrecht)
Wed 22nd October 2008 - 3:00PM

Potential theory in the exterior of a cylindrical set

S. Gardiner
Tue 28th October 2008 - 3:00PM

Positive harmonic functions on Denjoy-type domains I

J. Pres
Tue 28th October 2008 - 4:20PM

Involutions of Incidence Algebras

Professor David Lewis (UCD)
Wed 29th October 2008 - 3:00PM

Relative difference sets and APN functions

Marc Roeder (NUI Galway)
Mon 3rd November 2008 - 4:00PM

From Numerical Analysis to the Analysis of the Numerics

Dr Sonia Garcia, US Naval Academy, Annapolis
Tue 4th November 2008 - 11:30AM

Positive harmonic functions on Denjoy-type domains II

J. Pres
Tue 4th November 2008 - 2:30PM

Manifolds of Hilbert space projections

R. Levene
Tue 4th November 2008 - 4:00PM

Solving Polynomials with Integer Matrices

Raja Mukherji
Fri 7th November 2008 - 11:00AM

Report on NATO ARW, YACC08, ECC2008 and related new results

Gary McGuire (UCD)
Mon 10th November 2008 - 4:00PM

Norms of nuclear polynomials

A. Brown
Tue 11th November 2008 - 3:00PM

Geometry of spaces of polynomials: the unit ball of the complex P(^3 H)

J. Seoane (U.C. Madrid)
Tue 11th November 2008 - 4:15PM

Cracking the Cipher Challenge

Simon Singh
Wed 12th November 2008 - 1:10PM

Trace forms of symbol algebras and their exterior powers

Ronan Flatley
Fri 14th November 2008 - 11:00AM

Differential forms and bilinear forms under simple field extensions

Professor Detlev Hoffmann (University of Nottingham)
Fri 14th November 2008 - 3:00PM

Automorphisms of products of finite groups

John Curran (Univ. of Otago, New Zealand)
Mon 17th November 2008 - 4:00PM

Near inverses

S. Dineen
Tue 18th November 2008 - 2:30PM

Browder spectra for tuples of operators

D. Kitson
Tue 18th November 2008 - 4:00PM

Mock modular forms

Dr. Sander Zwegers (UCD)
Wed 19th November 2008 - 3:00PM

Constraining String Inflation Models With Observations

Ian Huston (Queen Mary, University of London)
Thu 20th November 2008 - 2:15PM

The Nonnegative Inverse Eigenvalue Problem

Anthony Cronin
Fri 21st November 2008 - 11:00AM

Skew polynomial rings and skew cyclic codes

John Sheekey (UCD and CSI)
Mon 24th November 2008 - 4:00PM

Orthogonally additive holomorphic functions of bounded type on C(K)

S. Lassalle (Buenos Aires)
Tue 25th November 2008 - 3:30PM

K-theory of Azumaya algebras

Ms. Judith Millar (Queen's University, Belfast)
Wed 26th November 2008 - 3:00PM

Applications of Hutchinson's Key Lemma

Tao Liqun
Fri 28th November 2008 - 11:00AM

Polynomials on Riesz spaces

R. Ryan (NUIG)
Tue 2nd December 2008 - 3:00PM

On C*-algebras of quotients

P. Ara (QUB
Tue 2nd December 2008 - 4:15PM

Mathemagic

Fernando Blasco
Tue 9th December 2008 - 7:00PM

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