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University of Sydney Applied Mathematics Seminar

The Applied Mathematics Seminar will be held on Wednesdays 14:05-14:55 in the Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre.

Schedule of Talks

Semester 1


Wednesday Mar 7 Philip Broadbridge Dark Energy States of a Scalar Field in an Unstable Universe
Thursday Mar 15* Song-Ping Zhu An Exact and Explicit Solution for the Valuation of American Put Options
Wednesday Mar 21 Rosemary Thompson The Inside of Blood Vessels
Wednesday Mar 28 Henrik Latter Fine-scale structure in Saturn's rings
Wednesday Apr 4 John Murray Mathematical modelling, hepatitis B virus, and the immune system
Wednesday Apr 11 Philip Maini Modelling solid tumour growth
Wednesday Apr 18 Chris Ormerod Associated linear problems for ultradiscrete equations
Wednesday May 2 Ruth Baker Mathematical modelling in developmental biology
Wednesday May 9 Colin Rogers On a Novel Class of Nonlinear Elastic Materials
Wednesday May 16 Jane Sexton From Source to Shore: Developing Tsunami Risk Assessments
Wednesday May 23 Tim Marchant Modulation theory and undular bores
Wednesday May 30 Erik Schlögl Gram/Charlier Series A Expansions for Option Pricing
Wednesday June 6 Sanjay Chawla Protein Secondary Structure Prediction with Conditional Random Fields



Semester 2


Wednesday July 25 Stephane Lafortune Stability of persisting periodic solutions to a complex Ginzburg-Landau perturbation of NLS
Wednesday Aug 1 Mary Myerscough The consequences of choice: the effects of scale and stochasticity in decision making
Wednesday Aug 8 Sanjiban Santra Asymptotic behavior of radial solutions of a semilinear elliptic PDE in an annulus by Morse Index
Wednesday Aug 15 Geoffrey Goodhill Mathematical models of visual map development in the brain
Wednesday Aug 22 Warren Weckesser Reduced System Computing for Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations
Wednesday Aug 29 David Terman A mathematical model for Parkinsonian rhythms
Thursday Sept 6* Tony Roberts Coordinate transforms underpin multiscale modelling and reduction in deterministic and stochastic systems
Wednesday Sept 12 Daniel Brown Words or Numbers? - poetry and a couple of Victorian scientists
Wednesday Sept 19 Dave Galloway A new model for the solar cycle
Wednesday Oct 3 Vladimir Gaitsgory Occupational measures approach to analysis of non-linear controlled dynamical systems
Wednesday Oct 10 Anthony Dooley Dynamical systems: theory and practice
Wednesday Oct 17 Charlie Macaskill Wrinkles in thin sheets
Wednesday Oct 24 James Sneyd Calcium oscillations: using math to do physiology