Subject: Summer School 2009
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Irish Mathematics
Summer School for Undergraduates

UCD, School of
Mathematical Sciences, June 8th -
12th, 2009

Probability,
Risk, Prediction & Estimation

(Room Q004,
Quinn
Building, UCD,
Belfield)

Aims:

To introduce students to ideas of
probability, risk and modelling

To indicate research and career
opportunities in mathematics and related areas in
Ireland

To give students a flavour of the
beauty, unity and power of mathematics

Lectures:
9am-noon. No of
lectures given in brackets; * indicates discussion
session

Professor Philip Boland
(UCD
School of Mathematical
Sciences)

‘Probability & Risk’
(3)

Dr Conall O’Sullivan
(Smurfit
Business
School)

‘Mathematical Modelling in
Finance’ (2 *)

Professor Govindan Rangarajan (
IISc, Bangalore)

‘Granger
Causality’ (2)

Professor Peter Richmond
(TCD
School of
Physics)
‘Financial
dynamics: a physics perspective.’ (1 *)

Professor Alan Newell
(Regent Professor, University of
Arizona,
USA)
‘Approximations
& asymptotic expansions of integrals: Applications from water waves
to the central limit theorem’ (4)

Seminars: (2-
3pm)

Professor Richard Timoney (TCD,
School of
Mathematics)
‘Wavelets’

Dr Rodrigo Caballero
(UCD
School of Mathematical
Sciences)  ‘Climate
Risk’

Professor Siddhartha Sen
(UCD
School of Mathematical
Sciences) ‘Modeling Complex
Systems’

Special Public
Seminar: Friday 12th June,
3.30
pm
(Quinn
Building)

Professor Nigel
Boston (UCD School of Mathematical Sciences and UCD Claude Shannon
Institute)
‘Distributions in number
theory’

Discussion sessions :
(3-4.30pm)

Dr David Edelman, (CASL &
Smurfit Business school), will conduct a discussion session on “The
Mathematics of Fortune’s Formula.”

Applications are invited from
undergraduates in mathematics, business studies, economics, physics,
statistics, actuarial studies and computer science.  They
should be submitted by email to [email-masked] giving your name,
contact details, course details, grade received in last year examination and
the name of one referee or delivered to: UCD School of Mathematics, Science
Lecture Building, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.  Applications
should be in by April 20th,
2009.  Those
selected will be informed by April 30th.  A
limited number of stipends for €300 are available for the summer
school.  Applications for these are invited from penultimate
year
University students of Irish
Universities in the above mentioned disciplines.

A conference on “Understanding the
Financial Crisis:”Did Mathematical Models Fail?” will be held on Wednesday,
June 10th (Room Q014, Quinn
School, UCD).
Students of the summer school are expected to attend.
Organising Committee:  Anthony Brabazon
(UCD
Business
School),
Adrian Ottewill &
Siddhartha Sen (UCD
School of Mathematical
Sciences).