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UNSW-Macquarie University Workshop: "Risk: Modelling, Optimization and...
Date: Thursday, 7 December 2017 - 9:00am to Friday, 8 December 2017 - 5:00pmVenue: Lecture Theatre A, Robert Webster Building, UNSW (map ref: G14)The workshopUNSW-Macquarie University Workshop: "Risk:...
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Shane Keating and Peter Straka promoted to Senior Lecturer
Date: Wednesday, 28th June 2017We are thrilled to announce that Dr Shane Keating and Dr Peter Straka have just been promoted to Senior Lecturer.Their promotions are effective from 1 July 2017. In...
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Students display their research at fourth annual Postgraduate Conference
Date: Wednesday, 14th June 2017Last Wednesday 7 June, we held our fourth annual Postgraduate Conference. The full-day event, hosted in Colombo Theatres, exhibited the breadth of research that our...
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Trevor tackles the Tour de France!
Date: Friday, 21st July 2017Our resident athlete Professor Trevor McDougall surprised few when he announced that he was participating in the Tour de France this month.Trevor sent several dispatches...
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Careers in Science Student Conference
Date: Thursday, 10 August 2017 - 9:00amVenue: AGSM, UNSW Kensington campus (G27)Confused about your future career?Secure your seat at the first ever Careers in Science Student Conference! If you don’t...
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Quoc Thong Le Gia edits two-volume set on novel methods in harmonic analysis
Date: Monday, 19th June 2017Dr Quoc Thong Le Gia has edited a two-volume set of books on novel methods in harmonic analysis.Frames and Other Bases in Abstract and Function Spaces: Novel Methods in...
View ArticleThe space of geometric realizations of a compact 4-manifold
Speaker: Boris LishakAffiliation: Univesity of SydneyDate: Tue, 22/08/2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: There are exponentially many triangulations of a fixed...
View ArticleAssessment in mathematics - debate and discussion
Speaker: Jonathan Kress and others t.b.a.Affiliation: UNSW SydneyDate: Fri, 18/08/2017 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Following the seminar by Jonathan Kress on 11th August, this...
View ArticleGrosswald’s conjecture on primitive roots
Speaker: Tim TrudgianAffiliation: UNSW CanberraDate: Wed, 16/08/2017 - 3:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Very little is known about the distribution of primitive roots of a prime $p$....
View ArticleHypergeometric motives for rigid hypergeometric Calabi-Yau threefolds
Speaker: Wadim ZudilinAffiliation: Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) and the University of Newcastle (NSW, Australia)Date: Wed, 16/08/2017 - 2:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract:...
View ArticleExplicit estimates on prime numbers
Speaker: Tim TrudgianAffiliation: UNSW CanberraDate: Tue, 15/08/2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: There is a striking connection between the zeroes of the Riemann...
View ArticleThe multiscale regularizing method for solving Ill-posed problems
Speaker: Min ZhongAffiliation: Southeast University, Nanjing, PR ChinaDate: Tue, 15/08/2017 - 11:05amVenue: CLB-1, Central Lecture Block, UNSWAbstract: Using compactly supported radial basis functions...
View ArticleHow, what and why of assessment in first year mathematics/statistics.
Speaker: Dr Jonathan KressAffiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW SYDNEYDate: Fri, 11/08/2017 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Over that past two years, changes...
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A generalization of the classical Motzkin theorem
Speaker: José Vicente PérezAffiliation: University of Alicante, SpainDate: Thu, 10/08/2017 - 11:00amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The classical Motzkin theorem states that every (closed...
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Second Maths Teachers Professional Development Day is a success
Date: Wednesday, 14th June 2017Last Thursday it was our pleasure to welcome 85 maths teachers from 43 schools to the campus for our second UNSW Maths Teachers Professional Development Day, dedicated to...
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Norman Wildberger quoted in SMH article about the Kepler Conjecture
Date: Thursday, 20th July 2017Associate Professor Norman Wildberger has been interviewed for a piece in SMH about the Kepler Conjecture.He was recently contacted by the Science Editor to comment for...
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Farewell to Shev MacNamara
Date: Friday, 16th June 2017Last Friday, School members gathered in the Staff Room to farewell Shev MacNamara.Shev commenced work in the School as a Lecturer in July 2014. Shev, who was a Fulbright...
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Peter Brown retires
Date: Thursday, 27th July 2017On Wednesday, 70 School members gathered in the Scientia’s Tyree Room for a lunch to celebrate Peter Brown’s retirement.Head of School Bruce Henry delivered a moving...
View ArticleTo be confirmed
Speaker: Stephen MaherAffiliation: Lancaster University, UKDate: Thu, 19/10/2017 - 11:00amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: To be confirmed.
View ArticleA nice proof of Wei's duality theorem
Speaker: Thomas BritzAffiliation: University of New South WalesDate: Tue, 12/09/2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The Tutte polynomial was once an esoteric object...
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