First Semester 2008



Date

Speaker

Title/Abstract

15/01/08

Alice Chang

(Princeton University)

(MSI SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM)

Q-curvature in Conformal Geometry


16/01/08

Paul Yang

(Princeton University)

(MSI SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM)

Pseudo-conformal geometry in dimension three


24/01/08

Min-Chun Hong

(University of Queensland)

(MSI SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM)

Some old and new results in liquid crystals


14/02/08

Tom ter Elst

(University of Auckland)

(MSI SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM)

Does diffusion determine the drum?


28/02/08

Michael J.D. Powell

(University of Cambridge)

The unimportance of theory in the development of optimization algorithms


06/03/08

Adam Rennie

(ANU)

The ever-expanding meaning of ‘Fredholm&rsquo


13/03/08

Vladimir Bogachev

(Moscow State University)

Elliptic and parabolic equations for measures: recent progress and open problems


18/03/08 (day is Tuesday)

Michael Cwikel

(Israel Institute of Technology)

Complex interpolation of compact operators. Creeping towards an answer?


27/03/08

Norman Dancer

(University of Sydney)

Infinitely many bifurcations for nonlinear elliptic equations where the nonlinearity has rapid growth


01/04/08 (day is Tuesday)

Alan Huckleberry

(Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany)

Surface Symmetry


03/04/08

Charlotte Wahl

(TBA)

Spectral Flow and Winding Number


10/04/08

Bob Anderssen

(CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, ANU)

Plant Breeding, Polymer Dynamics and Complete Monotonicity


17/04/08

Sergey Neshveyev

(University of Oslo)

Bost-Connes type systems, ergodic theory and equidistribution


24/04/08

Jason Grossman

(ANU)

Evidence-Based Medicine and statistical innovation


01/05/08

Vladimir Peller

(Michigan State University)

Approximation by analytic matrix functions


08/05/08

Ian Morrison

(Fordham University)

Birational Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Curves


15/05/08

Oliver Schnuerer

(Freie Universitat Berlin)

Surfaces Converging to Round Points


22/05/08

Denis J. Evans

(Research School of Chemistry, ANU)

The Fluctuation and Dissipation Theorems


29/05/08

David Hill

(Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, ANU)

Mathematical Aspects of Complex Systems


05/06/08

Amnon Neeman

(MSI, ANU)

Grothendieck duality via flat modules


12/06/08

Chris Bose

(University of Victoria, CANADA)

Looking for Ergodic Theory in Dynamical Systems


Second Semester 2008



Date

Speaker

Title/Abstract

10/07/08

Professor Steve Evans

(Departments of Statistics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley)

Simultaneous zeros of random polynomials, with variations on themes of Mahler, Brent and McKay


17/07/08

Professor Igor Verbitsky

(Univ of Missouri and Birmingham)

Quasilinear and Hessian equations and inequalities


24/07/08

Nirmalendu Chaudhuri

(Univ of Wollongong)

On derivation of Euler-Lagrange equiations for volume-preserving energy minimizer.


31/07/08

Andrew Hassell

(MSI)

Quantum Billiards


7/08/08

Vanessa Robins

(Department of Applied Maths, RSPhysSE, ANU)

Topological persistence for 3D image analysis


14/08/08

Ezra Getzler

(Northwestern)

Teichmueller space and topological field theory in two dimensions


21/08/08

Neshan Wickramasekera

(UCSD, Cambridge)

Regularity aspects of stable minimal submanifolds


28/08/08

Bishnu Lamichhane

(TBA)

Finite Element Methods in Solid Mechanics: From Hu-Washizu to Primal-Dual Formulations


04/09/08

Jacques Perk

(Oklahoma State)

Integrability in Statistical Mechanics


11/09/08

Ivan Dynov

(MPIM-Bonn, MSI)

Type III von Neumann algebras in the theory of infinite-dimensional groups


15/09/08 (Note: Monday)

Felix Schulze

(Freie Universitat Berlin)

Nonlinear evolution of hypersurfaces and geometric inequalities


18/09/08

Randall Swift

(California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)

Approximating Birth-Death Processes


25/09/08

Mike Osborne

(MSI)

The Bock iteration for ODE estimation.


02/10/08

No colloquium

(TBA)

No colloquium


09/10/08

Professor David Hamilton

(University of Maryland)

Riemann Mapping Theorem in R^3


16/10/08

Prof. Garth Dales

(University of Leeds)

Multi-normed spaces and multi-Banach algebras


23/10/08

Prof. William Messing

(University of Minnesota)

p-adic Hodge Theory and p-adic periods


30/10/08

Jerome Scherer

(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

On finite and infinite loop spaces


06/11/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


13/11/08

Jon Borwein

(Newcastle-upon-Hunter and Dalhousie)

Computer assisted discovery and proof


20/11/08

Arun Ram

(Melbourne University)

The mysteries of symmetry


27/11/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


4/12/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA