The Kashiwara-Vergne problem and flying rings in R^3
Speaker: Zsuzsanna DancsoAffiliation: ANUDate: Fri, 18/09/2015 - 2:30pmVenue: Carslaw 373, University of SydneyAbstract: The Kashiwara-Vergne problem is a property of the Baker-Campbell-Haussdorff...
View ArticleAdjoint action and nilpotent orbits using representations of quivers
Speaker: Bernt JensenAffiliation: Gjovik University CollegeDate: Tue, 15/09/2015 - 12:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: We will see how categories of representations of quivers and...
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Mini "Girls do the Maths" workshop run for L'Oreal Girls in Science Forum
Date: Thursday, 10th September 2015On Wednesday 9 September, we ran a mini Girls do the Maths workshop for a group of 40 high school girls, as part of the L'Oreal Girls in Science forum.Associate...
View ArticleIntroducing Dedalus: A new, efficient, accurate, and flexible toolkit for...
Speaker: Geoffrey VasilAffiliation: University of SydneyDate: Thu, 08/10/2015 - 3:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: In spite of outward appearances, many of the partial differential...
View ArticleMATH1241 student haiku compilation
Date: Tuesday, 15th September 2015MATH1241 Higher Mathematics 1B students were recently asked to write a few words about the online aspects of course, in the form of a haiku, which is a type of...
View ArticleEffective dimension for weighted ANOVA and anchored spaces
Speaker: Chenxi FanAffiliation: UNSWDate: Tue, 22/09/2015 - 11:25am to 11:55amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Effective dimension, an indicator of the difficulty of high dimensional...
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Welcome to our new PhD students
Date: Wednesday, 16th September 2015We would like to welcome our new PhD students, who have commenced in Semester 2, 2015.We are joined by Adam Mammoliti, who is working with Thomas Britz on graph...
View ArticleDeformation quantisations in algebra
Speaker: Stephen MorganAffiliation: ANUDate: Tue, 22/09/2015 - 12:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: In the context of algebra, deformation quantisation is a technique where one...
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Analysis and Geometry in non-Riemannian spaces
Date: Monday, 2 November 2015 - 9:00am to Wednesday, 4 November 2015 - 12:00pmVenue: Room RC-4082, Red Centre, UNSWNon-Riemannian geometries occur in different areas of pure and applied mathematics,...
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Trevor McDougall elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW
Date: Wednesday, 23rd September 2015We are proud to announce that Scientia Professor Trevor McDougall has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW.Professor McDougall was elected unanimously...
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Oxford Professor Philip Maini speaks at UNSW
Date: Wednesday, 23rd September 2015Oxford University Professor Philip Maini delivered a public lecture last night at UNSW, titled "Using Mathematics to Understand Biology". The talk attracted an...
View ArticlePoint-spread function reconstruction in ground-based astronomy
Speaker: Raymond H. ChanAffiliation: The Chinese University of Hong KongDate: Thu, 17/12/2015 - 11:05am to 11:55amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Ground-based astronomy refers to...
View ArticleComputing with Jacobi-sum motives and Hecke Grossencharacters
Speaker: Mark WatkinsAffiliation: University of SydneyDate: Wed, 07/10/2015 - 1:30pmVenue: K-J17-101 (Ainsworth Building 101) UNSWAbstract: In 1952, Weil wrote a short paper describing how to interpret...
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The Gambler's Fallacy and the Art of Binomial and Multinomial Prediction
Speaker: Dr Ben O'NeillAffiliation: UNSW CanberraDate: Tue, 29/09/2015 - 11:30amVenue: RC-3805, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: This seminar examines some recent research in prediction problems involving...
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Advanced Mathematics Day 2015
Date: Thursday, 24th September 2015The fourth annual Advanced Mathematics Day was held last Friday, 18 September in the Scientia Gallery. Almost 100 students hailing from our Advanced Mathematics...
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Some MATH 1B topics are harder than others
Date: Thursday, 24th September 2015Having recently attended the interesting talk by Philip Mani at UNSW on the mathematics of biology, one quote from Alan Turing stuck in my mind: That his biological...
View ArticleRecent advances in geometric discrepancy
Speaker: Josef DickAffiliation: UNSWDate: Wed, 07/10/2015 - 2:30pmVenue: K-J17-101 (Ainsworth Building 101) UNSWAbstract: Classical discrepancy theory deals with distributing $N$ points in the...
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Honours Information Session
Date: Wednesday, 7 October 2015 - 12:00pmVenue: OMB-145 (Old Main Building, UNSW)If you are a 2nd or 3rd year Mathematics or Statistics major who is thinking about progressing to Honours in 2016 or...
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Eco-Stats '15: Technological advances between Ecology & Statistics
Date: Tuesday, 8 December 2015 - 9:00am to Thursday, 10 December 2015 - 5:00pmVenue: Colombo Theatres, UNSW (map ref: B16)Ecologists and statisticians have much to gain from working together, and this...
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UNSW Maths heavily represented on editorial board of eminent journal
Date: Friday, 2nd October 2015The editorial board of the Journal of Complexity was recently restructured, following the passing of long-time Editor-in-Chief Joseph Traub. The reorganisation has...
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