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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 5 Peter Buchen Pricing Financial Derivatives with the Method of Images
Wednesday Mar 19 Catalin Trenchea Control and parameter identification in reaction-diffusion equations
Wednesday Apr 2 David Gubbins Models of the Earth's Dynamo with Lateral Variations in Heating
Wednesday Apr 9 Michael Breakspear Bimodal and extremum statistics in human EEG : Measurement and implications
Wednesday Apr 16 Barry Cox Mechanics and geometry of carbon nanostructures
Wednesday Apr 23 Holger Dullin Normal forms for volume preserving maps and bifurcations of invariant circles
Wednesday Apr 30 Lars Jermiin New methods of detecting violated phylogenetic assumptions: Implications on comparative genomics
Monday May 05* Peter Bates Nucleation of instability of the Meissner state of 3-dimensional superconductors
Wednesday May 14 Norman Dancer Infinitely Many Bifurcations for Nonlinear Elliptic Equations with Rapidly Growing Nonlinearity
Wednesday May 21 Gary Froyland An ergodic-theoretic approach to transport and coherent structures in fluid flow
Wednesday May 28 Alistair Merrifield Statistical analysis of directed movement of groups: swarms of honeybees and cell invasions
Wednesday Jun 04 Kerry Landman Simulating a developmental cell invasion process: Macroscopic and microscopic approaches
Wednesday Jun 18 Mikhail I Rabinovich Neuronal Synchrony: Peculiarity & Generality



Semester 2


Wednesday July 30 Leon Poladian One example of using electronic quizzes
Wednesday Aug 6 Ngamata Thamwattana Continuum modelling for carbon nanostructures
Wednesday Aug 13 Alejandro Vidal Lopez Asymptotic behaviour of logistic equations
Wednesday Aug 20 Lisa Fauci Fluid dynamic models of spirochete motility
Wednesday Aug 27 Samuel Solomon What does the eye tell the brain?
Wednesday Sep 3 Florica Cirstea Semilinear elliptic equations with isolated singularities
Wednesday Sept 10 Takahiro Kawai On the Toulouse Project - how much we have understood the structure of solutions of higher order Painleve equations
Wednesday Sept 17 Sebastien Ardon Modeling and simulation of encounter networks from contact traces
Wednesday Sept 24 Jim Denier Anomalous behaviour in boundary-layers: short-scale instabilities, finite distance breakdown and non-uniqueness
Wednesday Oct 8 Zdenka Kuncic Monte Carlo Radiation Transport: Why Leave it to Chance?
Wednesday Oct 15 Ramit Mehr Elucidating lymphocyte development using BrdU labeling and mathematical models
Wednesday Oct 22 Edgar Knobloch Nearly inviscid Faraday waves
Wednesday Oct 29 Sebastian Reich GSHMC: An efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling method