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University of Sydney Applied Mathematics Seminar

In Semester 2, 2006, the Applied Mathematics Seminar will be held on Wednesdays 14:05-14:55 in Carslaw Lecture Theatre 373.

Schedule of Talks

Semester 1


Wednesday Feb 15 Iain Couzin/ David Sumpter Collective motion and decision-making in animal groups
Thursday Mar 2 Antoinette Tordesillas Searching for grains of truth
Thursday Mar 2 Hinke Osinga Computing Global stable and unstable manifolds
Wednesday Mar 8 Bruce Henry Fractional reaction-diffusion equations and pattern formation
Wednesday Mar 15 Jean Yee Hwa Yang Aspects of the design and analysis of gene expression studies
Thursday Mar 23 Lennaert van Veen Periodic motion versus turbulent motion
Wednesday Mar 29 James Wood The effects of internal travel restrictions on the geographic spread of a pandemic
Wednesday Apr 05 David Chik Global coherent activities in inhibitory neural systems
Wednesday Apr 12 Nils Ackermann Equilibria and connecting orbits in non-dissipative parabolic equations
Wednesday April 26 Georg Gottwald A normal form for excitable media
Wednesday May 03 Anthony N. Burkitt Models of auditory neural processing for building the next generation of cochlear implants for the hearing impaired
Wednesday May 10 Alexander B. Rabinovich The Sumatra tsunami of December 26, 2004
Wednesday May 17 Emma Carberry Constant mean curvature surfaces and integrable systems
Wednesday May 24 Gary Morriss Lyapunov modes and time-correlation functions
Wednesday May 31 Martin Wechselberger Relaxation oscillatory patterns - the geometry of Hodgkin-Huxley type models
Wednesday June 7 Chris Jones Float trajectory data and their assimilation into ocean models
Wednesday June 14 Arthur Vartanian Orthogonal rational functions



Semester 2


Wednesday July 26 Raimundas Vidunas Detecting persistent regimes in the North Atlantic Oscillation time series
Thursday Aug 3 Sandra Chapman Universal fluctuations- extremal statistics in turbulence, models for critical phenomena, and football scores
Wednesday Aug 9 Philip Treharne The generalized Dirichlet to Neumann map for the KdV equation on the half-line
Wednesday Aug 16 Ramon Xulvi-Brunet Construction and properties of assortative networks
Wednesday Aug 23 Phil Attard Theory for non-equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
Wednesday Aug 30 Michael Breakspear The multiscale character of evoked cortical dynamics
Wednesday Sept 6 Andrew Docherty Asymptotic modelling of timing shifts in modern optical communications systems
Tuesday Sept 12 Cleve Moler Evolution of MATLAB
Wednesday Sept 20 Don Melrose MHD-like turbulence in hot collisionless plasmas
Wednesday Oct 4 Nalini Joshi Analytic results for (ultra-discrete) cellular automata
Wednesday Oct 11 Efim Pelinovsky Rogue Waves: Facts, Theories and Modelling
Wednesday Oct 18 Ofer Gal How to make a mathematical law of nature: the (non-)discovery of the inverse square law of gravity
Wednesday Oct 25 Scott McCue Bubbles of air in Hele-Shaw cells
Wednesday Nov 29 Ian Melbourne Corkscrews and boomerang-like motions