UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics Seminars

Seminars 2026

Mortality improvements, excess mortality, and socio-economic differentials: Evidence from England 2001-2022

Ayse Arik (University of New South Wales)
Thu 8th January 2026 - 3:00PM

Pooled vs. meta-analytic models in multi-ancestry genome-wide association studies: Power, population structure, and prac

Julie-Alexia Dias (Harvard University)
Thu 15th January 2026 - 3:00PM

Knuth's big-chooser matchbox process: the case of many matchboxes

Andrew Mullins (UCD)
Mon 19th January 2026 - 3:00PM

Unique continuation from singular hypersurfaces

Josef Eberhard Greilhuber (Stanford University)
Tue 27th January 2026 - 3:00PM

An additive application of the resonance method

Athanasios Soumerlidis (CNRS, Université de Lille)
Tue 3rd February 2026 - 3:00PM

Efficient sequential Bayesian inference for state-space epidemic models using ensemble data assimilation

Dhorasso Junior Temfack Nguefack (Trinity College Dublin)
Thu 5th February 2026 - 3:00PM

The Complexity of Isometry Classes of Banach Spaces, with emphasis on C(K) Spaces

Marek Cúth (Charles University, Prague)
Tue 10th February 2026 - 3:00PM

Eavesdropping on the cosmological cocktail party: data analysis challenges for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Prof. Jonathan Gair (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Germany)
Wed 11th February 2026 - 12:00PM

The grammar of conflict: Discovering motifs in armed violence

Thomas Chadefaux (Trinity College Dublin)
Thu 12th February 2026 - 3:00PM

Models and pre-models for holomorphic self-maps of the unit disk

Maria Kourou (University of Würzburg)
Tue 17th February 2026 - 3:00PM

A structured estimator for large covariance matrices in the presence of pairwise and spatial covariates

Martin Metodiev (Université Clermont Auvergne)
Thu 19th February 2026 - 3:00PM

Systematic risk in pools

Hirbod Assa
Tue 24th February 2026 - 3:00PM

pdglasso: an R package for Gaussian graphical models for paired data

Saverio Ranciati (University of Bologna)
Thu 26th February 2026 - 3:00PM

Ranking Time Series Analysis

Wagner Barreto-Souza (UCD)
Mon 2nd March 2026 - 3:00PM

Uniformization of domains by circle domains

Christina Karafyllia (University of Western Macedonia)
Tue 3rd March 2026 - 3:00PM

Categorical instrumental variable model: Characterization, partial identification, and statistical inference

Richard Guo (University of Michigan)
Thu 5th March 2026 - 3:00PM

Koike-Schur-Weyl duality and Spin Networks: applications to unitary invariant random matrices

Antoine Dahlqvist (University of Sussex)
Mon 23rd March 2026 - 3:00PM

A Journey Through Quantum Operator Theory

Michael Melgaard (University of Sussex)
Tue 24th March 2026 - 3:00PM

Citizens’ demand for local representation: Measurement and causal inference using constituency-level candidate votes

Thomas Däubler (UCD)
Thu 26th March 2026 - 3:00PM

Weil-Peterson Curves, Traveling Salesman Theorems, and Minimal Surfaces

Prof. Chris Bishop (Stony Brook University, U.S.A.)
Fri 27th March 2026 - 2:00PM

Bulk Universality for Non-Hermitian Wigner-type Matrices

Anna Maltsev (Queen Mary University of London)
Mon 30th March 2026 - 2:00PM

Some extremal problems in Hardy spaces

Myrto Manolaki
Tue 31st March 2026 - 3:00PM

A Bayesian framework for neuroimaging meta-analysis

Felice Lamberti (University of Bologna)
Thu 2nd April 2026 - 3:00PM

Extending rational expanding Thurston maps

Julia Munch (University of Liverpool)
Tue 7th April 2026 - 3:00PM

On random regular graphs and the Kim-Vu Sandwich Conjecture

Natalie Behague (Dublin City University)
Mon 13th April 2026 - 3:00PM

Lipschitz-free spaces and descriptive set theory II

Richard Smith
Tue 14th April 2026 - 3:00PM

Flexible methods for survival data: from synthetic patients to dynamic prediction in cure models

Marta Cipriani (UCD)
Thu 16th April 2026 - 3:00PM

Typicality of Operators Admitting a Hypercyclic Algebra

Clifford Gilmore (Université Clermont Auvergne)
Tue 21st April 2026 - 3:00PM

Light entertainment - Spectroscopy of atoms and ions in UCD

Fergal O'Reilly (UCD)
Thu 23rd April 2026 - 3:00PM

Large time cumulants for the finite volume KPZ equation, and non-crossing polymers

Pierre Le Doussal (ENS, Paris)
Tue 28th April 2026 - 2:00PM

Shifting Student Learning Preferences: Personal Reflections and Strategies to Address Them

Prof. Alidad Amirfazli, Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University, Toronto, Canada
Wed 24th June 2026 - 12:00PM

After the counterexample: What remains of the Etzion–Silberstein conjecture?

Professor Alessandro Neri (University of Naples Federico II)
Wed 9th September 2026 - 2:00PM

Second class particles just walk sometimes

Márton Balázs (University of Bristol)
Wed 16th September 2026 - 2:00PM

Generalized Pseudo-Anosov Maps from Holomorphic Dynamics

Mariam Alhawaj (Ahlia University Bahrain)
Thu 17th September 2026 - 3:00PM

Choquard equation in the half space with Robin boundary condition

Marius Ghergu
Tue 22nd September 2026 - 3:00PM

Quantum Codes from Classical Techniques

Oisin Campion (UCD)
Wed 23rd September 2026 - 2:00PM

Quantum Codes from Classical Techniques

Oisin Campion (UCD)
Wed 23rd September 2026 - 3:00PM

Moving Planes and Radial Symmetry for Yukawa Integral Equations

Changhong Li
Tue 29th September 2026 - 3:00PM

Distribution of the Busemann process in exponential last-passage percolation

Elnur Emrah (UCD)
Wed 30th September 2026 - 2:00PM

Zeroth-order parallel sampling

Francesco Pozza (UCD, SMS)
Thu 1st October 2026 - 3:00PM

AI Weather Forecasting: Assessing Extrapolation & Physical Consistency

Prof. Sebastian Engelke, Full Professor of Statistics (Research Center for Statistics, University of Geneva)
Tue 6th October 2026 - 1:00PM

Singularities in Mean Curvature Flows

Maxwell Stolarski
Tue 6th October 2026 - 3:00PM

Credit transition and default risk

Andrew Smith (UCD)
Thu 8th October 2026 - 3:00PM

Generative Regression Models for Functional and Object Data

Edward Gunning (UCC)
Thu 15th October 2026 - 3:00PM

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