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PhD student Isaac Donnelly interviewed for UNSW Science's "Wavelength"
Date: Monday, 22nd September 2014Current PhD student Isaac Donnelly was recently interviewed by the Faculty of Science student newsletter, Wavelength.Isaac outlined his fascinating research topic for...
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Advanced Mathematics Day 2014
Date: Monday, 22nd September 2014The third annual Advanced Mathematics Day was held last Friday 19th September in the Tyree Room, Scientia. Students of the Advanced Mathematics program, plus our...
View ArticleImproving Climate Model ENSO Validation with new Climate Pseudo-Proxies
Speaker: Brian PowellAffiliation: University of Hawai'i at ManoaDate: Thu, 09/10/2014 - 2:00pmVenue: OMB-G31, Old Main Building, UNSWAbstract: Oxygen isotope (delta-18O) records from tropical coral...
View ArticleTropical Instability Waves and Equatorial Mixing in the Pacific Ocean
Speaker: Ryan HolmesAffiliation: School of Earth Sciences, Stanford UniversityDate: Tue, 07/10/2014 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Tropical instability waves (TIWs) and vortices...
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Heat kernel estimates with applications to analysis on manifolds
Speaker: Prof Thierry CoulhonAffiliation: Australian National UniversityDate: Fri, 03/10/2014 - 4:00pmVenue: OMB-145, Old Main Building, UNSW (Kensington Campus)Abstract: Upper and lower Gaussian...
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Uniform Convergence on Nonlinear Cointegrating Regression
Speaker: Dr Nigel ChanAffiliation: University of SydneyDate: Fri, 26/09/2014 - 4:00pmVenue: OMB-145, Old Main Building, UNSW (Kensington Campus)Abstract: For a nonlinear cointegration model, uniform...
View ArticleWhat is the probability that a random quadratic form is isotropic?
Speaker: Tom FisherAffiliation: CambridgeDate: Wed, 24/09/2014 - 2:00pmVenue: Red Centre M032, UNSWAbstract: I will discuss the problem of computing an exact formula for the probability that a random...
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School Postgraduate Conference
Date: Wednesday, 1 October 2014 - 9:30am to 5:00pmVenue: Colombo Theatres, UNSW46 postgraduate students, 100 person-years of research, 1 day!The School Postgraduate Conference is a one-day event...
View ArticleCancer-immune dynamics of oncolytic virotherapy and dendritic cell vaccines
Speaker: Dr. Peter KimAffiliation: The University of SydneyDate: Thu, 16/10/2014 - 11:05am to 11:55amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Recent experiments with engineered oncolytic...
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Collapsed Variational Bayes for Model Selection
Speaker: Dr John OrmerodAffiliation: University of SydneyDate: Fri, 10/10/2014 - 4:00pmVenue: OMB-145, Old Main Building, UNSW Kensington CampusAbstract: Collapsed variational Bayes (CVB) offers a...
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Honours Information Meeting
Date: Thursday, 9 October 2014 - 12:00pmVenue: RC-4082, Red Centre (Centre Wing)If you are a 2nd or 3rd year Mathematics or Statistics major who is thinking about progressing to Honours in 2015 or...
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Terry Speed delivers public lecture at UNSW
Date: Friday, 26th September 2014The School of Mathematics and Statistics hosted a public lecture by Professor Terry Speed on Tuesday 23rd September in the Scientia's Ritchie Theatre.Professor Terry...
View ArticleAdaptive multi-level Monte Carlo methods
Speaker: Dr. Ruth BakerAffiliation: University of OxfordDate: Thu, 09/10/2014 - 11:05am to 11:55amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Discrete-state, continuous-time Markov models are widely...
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Sequential Monte Carlo for Complex Models
Speaker: Dr Lawrence MurrayAffiliation: CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and StatisticsDate: Fri, 03/10/2014 - 11:05am to 11:55amVenue: TBAAbstract: Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are applicable...
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Generalized Information Matrix Tests for Copulas
Speaker: Dr Artem ProkhorovAffiliation: University of SydneyDate: Fri, 17/10/2014 - 4:05pm to 4:55pmVenue: OMB-145, Old Main Building, UNSW (Kensington Campus)Abstract: (Joint work with Ulf Schepsmeier...
View ArticleEffective Cassels' p-adic embedding theorem for number fields
Speaker: Min ShaAffiliation: UNSWDate: Wed, 08/10/2014 - 2:00pmVenue: Red Centre M032, UNSWAbstract: In 1976, Cassels showed that for any number field $K$, there exist infinitely many primes $p$ such...
View ArticleDuality
Speaker: Daniel ChanAffiliation: UNSWDate: Tue, 07/10/2014 - 10:00amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: We discuss duality theory for algebras over regular local rings. This allows us to...
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2014 School Postgraduate Conference
Date: Friday, 3rd October 2014The inaugural School Postgraduate Conference was held on Wednesday 1st October. More than 30 of our Postgraduate students delivered presentations communicating their...
View ArticleA relative GAGA principle for families of curves
Speaker: Jack HallAffiliation: ANUDate: Tue, 07/10/2014 - 12:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: A classical result, due to Riemann, is that every Riemann surface has a non-constant...
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Sequential Monte Carlo methods for probabilistic graphical models
Speaker: Christian NaessethAffiliation: Linköping UniversityDate: Fri, 31/10/2014 - 4:05pm to 4:55pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: We will present a new framework on how to use...
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