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Honours Information Session held in the School
Date: Thursday, 8th October 2015On Wednesday 7 October, students considering doing an Honours degree with the UNSW School of Mathematics and Statistics had a chance to hear from the Honours...
View ArticleRecurrence, measure rigidity and characteristic polynomial patterns in...
Speaker: Alexander FishAffiliation: University of SydneyDate: Wed, 04/11/2015 - 2:30pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: We present a new approach for establishing the recurrence of a set,...
View ArticleThe Great Open Problem in Discrepancy Theory
Speaker: William ChenAffiliation: Maquarie UniversityDate: Wed, 04/11/2015 - 1:30pmVenue: K-J17-101 (Ainsworth Building 101) UNSWAbstract: Consider the supremum norm of the discrepancy function with...
View ArticleFrom cells to tissue: modelling the electrophysiology of the human heart
Speaker: Kevin BurrageAffiliation: University of Oxford and Queensland University of TechnologyDate: Tue, 03/11/2015 - 11:05am to 11:55amVenue: Old Main Building OMB-151Abstract: This talk gives an...
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Science Info Day
Date: Thursday, 5 November 2015 - 9:00am to 3:00pmVenue: UNSW Kensington CampusThis full-day event, targeted to high school students, is packed with activities designed to give you a taste of...
View ArticleStochastic simulation with diffusion in molecular biology
Speaker: Prof. Per LötstedtAffiliation: Uppsala University, Sweden Date: Wed, 28/10/2015 - 11:05am to 11:55amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Stochastic models are needed to model the...
View ArticleReflections after a year as Teaching Fellow at UNSW
Speaker: Geoff Carroll Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW.Date: Fri, 23/10/2015 - 4:15pmVenue: RC-3082, The Red Centre, UNSW (School of Mathematics and Statistics staff common...
View ArticleAdaptive algorithms for PDEs
Speaker: Michael FeischlAffiliation: UNSWDate: Tue, 10/11/2015 - 11:05am to 11:55amVenue: Old Main Building OMB-151Abstract: In this talk, we analyze adaptive mesh-refinement algorithms for finite...
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Gary Froyland an invited speaker for SIAM 2016 Annual Meeting
Date: Friday, 23rd October 2015Professor Gary Froyland has been invited to be a plenary speaker at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Annual Meeting in 2016.The 2016 meeting is...
View ArticlePositions Available: Postdoctoral Fellow (2 positions)
Date: Thursday, 22nd October 2015Postdoctoral Fellow (2 positions)Faculty of ScienceSchool of Mathematics and StatisticsRef#11103 Fixed Term Appointment, 3 Years Full-TimeSalary: A$86K – A$92K per year...
View ArticleZeroes of partial sums of the zeta-function
Speaker: Timothy TrudgianAffiliation: Australian National UniversityDate: Wed, 18/11/2015 - 2:30pmVenue: K-J17-101 (Ainsworth Building 101) UNSWAbstract: Take the Riemann zeta-function, $\zeta(s) = 1 +...
View ArticleHankel determinants and irrationality questions
Speaker: Wadim ZudilinAffiliation: University of NewcastleDate: Wed, 18/11/2015 - 1:30pmVenue: K-J17-101 (Ainsworth Building 101) UNSWAbstract: It is a classical fact that the irrationality of a real...
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Complex analysis and the exit time of planar Brownian motion
Speaker: Greg MarkowskyAffiliation: Monash UniversityDate: Tue, 10/11/2015 - 12:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The time it takes Brownian motion to leave a planar domain provides a...
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A discrepancy bound for deterministic acceptance-rejection samplers beyond...
Speaker: Houying ZhuAffiliation: UNSW Australia, School of Mathematics & StatisticsDate: Thu, 05/11/2015 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-M032, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: In this talk we consider an...
View Article"Blending old and new: a tiny and obvious but very useful teaching technique"...
Speaker: David Angell and Thomas BritzAffiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW.Date: Fri, 30/10/2015 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-2063, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: We have two speakers for the...
View ArticleDomain Decomposition methods for the high frequency Helmholtz equation
Speaker: Ivan GrahamAffiliation: University of BathDate: Tue, 24/11/2015 - 11:05am to 11:55amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: When solving the linear space-time wave equation in the band...
View ArticleFast computation of the semiclassical Schrödinger equation
Speaker: Arieh IserlesAffiliation: University of CambridgeDate: Mon, 23/11/2015 - 11:05am to 11:55amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Equations of quantum mechanics in the semiclassical...
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Where is NSW going?
Speaker: Dr Shima GhassempourAffiliation: Western Sydney University, CMCRC SydneyDate: Mon, 09/11/2015 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-M032, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: In every day life we often hear about...
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Multilevel Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers
Speaker: Assoc/Prof Ajay JasraAffiliation: National University of SingaporeDate: Tue, 03/11/2015 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-M032, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The approximation of expectations w.r.t....
View ArticleExam tips from Higher Math 1B students
Date: Monday, 2nd November 2015MATH1241 students, our exam superstars, were recently asked to share some of their hard-earned wisdom about how to pass a mathematics exam.In contrast with the...
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