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University of Sydney Applied Mathematics Seminar

In Semester 2, 2005, the Applied Mathematics Seminar will be held on Wednesdays 14:05-14:55 in Carslaw Lecture Theatre 373.

Schedule of Talks

Semester 2


Wednesday Aug 3
Jeremy Sumner
Representation theory, classical invariants and phylogenetics
Wednesday Aug 10
Miles Davenport
A quantitative approach to vaccine development for HIV
Wednesday Aug 17
Dr. Weijia Kuang Understanding dynamical processes in the Earth's outer core via surface geomagnetic and gravity observation
Wednesday Aug 24
Jonathan Arthur Identification of open reading frames in unannotated genome sequences
Wednesday Sep 7
Mark Hoefer
Dispersive shock waves in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Wednesday Sep 14
David Stump
Modelling issues in Financial Mathematics
Wednesday Oct 5
Charlie Macaskill
Lagrangian techniques for modelling large scale oceanic vortex motions
Wednesday Oct 12
Paul Smith
Analytical-numerical methods in scattering and diffraction
Wednesday Oct 19
David Philp
Graphical Representations of NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei
Wednesday Oct 26
David Wilson
Mathematical Solutions to Ethical Problems: Allocating HIV Antiretroviral Drugs in Resource-Constrained Countries
Semester 1


Wednesday Mar 9 Lorenz Kramer Pattern formation and selection in systems with broken reflection symmetry
Wednesday Mar 16 Herbert Huppert Gravity currents in nature and industry
Wednesday Mar 23 Clare Dunning Insights into PT-symmetric quantum mechanics via integrable models
Wednesday Apr 6 David Dritschel A new twist to rotating stratified turbulence
Wednesday Apr 13 Stephen Cox Chaotic mixing and chemical reactions
Wednesday Apr 20 Stephen Simpson Why locusts swarm: from individuals to populations
Wednesday April 27 Norman Dancer Stable solutions when the diffusion is small
Wednesday May 4 Dave Galloway Strong-field nonlinear dynamos
Wednesday May 11 Bill Gibson Modelling non-electrical communication in the nervous system
Wednesday May 18 Serdar Kuyucak Computer simulations of biomolecular systems: Lessons from modeling of permeation in ion channels
Wednesday May 25 Sergey Vladimirov Complex plasmas: self-organized "dusty" matter from nanotechnology to astrophysics
Wednesday Jun 1 Yury Stepanyants Nonlinear waves in rotating media
Wednesday Jun 15 Andrew Pickering Non-isospectral scattering problems: some fruitful applications
Wednesday Jun 22 Pilar Ruiz Gordoa Integration of ordinary differential equations via modification