Sydney–UNSW Joint Colloquium

This event aims at providing opportunity for staffs and visitors of the Schools of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales to visit each other. For any other information, please contact Thomas Britz (UNSW) or Zhou Zhang (Sydney).

The talks are supposed to be proper for general audience.

List of Talks

For most of the earlier talks, more information can be found through UNSW ArXiv .

Apr. 20, 2012 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Sheehan Olver (Sydney) Numerical Free Probability: Computing Eigenvalue Distributions of Large Random Matrices
Apr. 13, 2012 (OMB-145, Old Main Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Alexandru Dimca (Nice) On the Monodromy of Hyperplane Arrangements
Mar. 30, 2012 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM Simon Kristensen (Aarhus) Metrical Musings on Littlewood and Friends
Mar. 23, 2012 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Peter J. Olver (Minnesota) Moving Frames in Applications
Mar. 16, 2012 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM Philip J. Boland (UCD) W. S. Gosset or "Student" Guinness Brewer in Charge of Statistics
Mar. 2, 2012 (Talk 2) (Carslaw 275, Sydney University)
3–4PM Maxim Zinchenko (Central Florida) Nonlinear Fourier Analysis
Mar. 2, 2012 (Talk 1) (Carslaw 275, Sydney University)
2–3PM Anna Skripka (Central Florida) Applications of Noncommutative Analysis
Dec. 16, 2011 (Carslaw 375, Sydney University)
2–3PM Eddy Godelle (Caen) Hecke Algebras and Renner Monoids
Oct. 28, 2011 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Peter Kim (Sydney) Bridging Agent-Based Models and PDEs: a Model of Cell Differentiation
Oct. 21, 2011 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM Jerzy A. Filar (Flinders) The Hamiltonian Cycle Problem, Markov Chains and Optimization
Aug. 26, 2011 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM Peter Sarnak (Princeton) Zeroes and Nodal Lines of Modular Forms (as part of Mahler Lectures)
Aug. 26, 2011 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
12NOON–1PM Marston Conder (Auckland) Symmetry and Chirality in Discrete Structures
Aug. 12, 2011 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Ian Grojnowski (Cambridge) Representation Theory and Differentiation
Jul. 22, 2011 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2:30–3:30PM Gang Tian (Princeton) New Geometric Flows
Jun. 10, 2011 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM Ross C. McPhedran (Sydney) Angular Lattice Sums and the Riemann Hypothesis
May 6, 2011 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM Frank Calegari (Northwestern) Reciprocity and the Langlands Program
Mar. 25, 2011 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM Vladimir Bazhanov (ANU) Quantum Geometry and Integrable Systems
Feb. 18, 2011 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM Bill Moran (Melbourne) Half a Mathematical Lifetime with Gavin
Dec. 10, 2010 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM Sergey Ajiev (UNSW) Holder Classification of Spheres and Tsar'kov Phenomenon
Dec. 3, 2010 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM S. Jon Chapman (Oxford) Stochastic Models of Reaction Diffusion
Nov. 19, 2010 (OMB-145, Old Main Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Zhou Zhang (Sydney) Introduction to Ricci Flow
Nov. 5, 2010 (OMB-145, Old Main Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Anne Thomas (Sydney) Surface Quotients of Hyperbolic Buildings
Oct. 29, 2010 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2–3PM Matthew Dyer (Notre Dame) Groupoids with Root Systems
Aug. 20, 2010 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM Jim Franklin (UNSW) Data-Free Statistics
Aug. 6, 2010 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2:30–3:30PM JM Landsberg (Texas A&M) P vs NP and the Geometry of Orbit Closures
Mar. 12, 2010 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
2–3PM Alex Dimca (Nice) From Lang's Conjecture to Torelli Groups
Feb. 19, 2010 (Carslaw 273, Sydney University)
2–3PM Tara Holm (Cornell) Act Globally, Compute Locally: Group Actions, Fixed Points, and Localization
Oct. 16, 2009 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Gus Lehrer (Sydney) Classical and Quantum Invariant Theory
Oct. 9, 2009 (Carslaw 275, Sydney University)
2–3PM Zdzislaw Brzezniak (York) Stochastic Landau-Lifschitz-Gilbert Equation
Sept. 4, 2009 (Carslaw 275, Sydney University)
2–3PM Alan McIntosh (CMA&ANU) The Kato Square Root Problem - a New Approach with Applications to Boundary Value Problems
Aug. 21, 2009 (Carslaw 275, Sydney University)
2–3PM Sergey Ajiev (UNSW) Homogeneous Right Inverses and Metric Projections
Aug. 14, 2009 (RC-3084, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Stephan Tillman (Queensland) Complexity of 3-manifolds
Aug. 7, 2009 (Carslaw 275, Sydney University)
2–3PM Tuomas Hytonen (Helsinki) How to Choose Random Cubes, and Why?
Jul. 27, 2009 (Carslaw 275, Sydney University)
1–2PM Marius Mitrea (Missouri) Singular Integral Operators and Boundary Value Problems: Recent Progress
Jul. 24, 2009 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM David Rule (Edinburgh) Weighted Norm Inequalities for Pseudo-Differential
Jul. 20, 2009 (Carslaw 275, Sydney University)
12NOON–1PM Gang Tian (Princeton) Curvature Flows and Complex Geometry
Jul. 14, 2009 (Carslaw 173, Sydney University)
12NOON–1PM Justin Sawon (Colorado State) Holomorphic Coisotropic Reduction
Apr. 24, 2009 (Carslaw 173, Sydney University)
2–3PM Michael Cowling (Birmingham) Maps of Groups that Send Cosets to Cosets
Mar. 13, 2009 (Carslaw 275, Sydney University)
2–3PM Irene Fonseca (Carnegie Mellon) Variational Methods in Materials and Imaging
Nov. 26, 2008 (Carslaw 175, Sydney University)
12NOON–1PM Vaughan Jones (Berkeley) Planar Algebra
Nov. 14, 2008 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Richard M Hain (Duke) Elliptic Curves and Multiple Zeta Numbers
Oct. 31, 2008 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
1–2PM Dorin Bucur (Savoie) Variational Approach for Isoperimetric Inequalities
Oct. 24, 2008 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Garth Dales (Leeds) Multi-Normed Spaces and Multi-Banach Algebras
Oct. 17, 2008 (Carslaw 173, Sydney University)
1–2PM Henrik Kragh Sorenson (Aarhus) The Irony of Romantic Mathematics
Sept. 26, 2008 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Stephen Tillmann (Melbourne) What is the Thurston Norm?
Aug. 22, 2008 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Herbert E Huppert (DAMTP) Fluid Modelling of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
Jun. 6, 2008 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Mike Field (Houston) Dynamical Zeta Functions and Mixing
May 30, 2008 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Ian Morrison (Fordham) Birational Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Curves
Apr. 24, 2008 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Susan G Williams (South Alabama) Knots and Algebraic Dynamical Systems
Mar. 14, 2008 (RC-4082, Red Centre Building, UNSW)
2–3PM Rodney Baxter (ANU) The "Star-Triangle" or "Yang-Baxter" Relations in Statistical Mechanics
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