UNSW Postgraduate Information Evening
Date: Wednesday, 10 October 2018 - 5:30pm to 8:00pmVenue: Hilton Sydney 488 George Street SydneyWant to find out about study options? Hear from those in the know? Take a deep dive into your area of...
View ArticleAdvanced Maths Day 2018
Date: Tuesday, 9th October 2018Our seventh annual Advanced Mathematics Day was held in the Scientia Galleries last Friday 5 October. After a welcome and overview from Professor Bruce Henry, first and...
View ArticleBayesian hypothesis tests with diffuse priors: Can we have our cake and eat...
Speaker: Dr. John OrmerodAffiliation: University of SydneyDate: Fri, 12/10/2018 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-M032, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: We introduce a new class of priors for Bayesian hypothesis testing,...
View ArticleSSA NSW Young Statisticians & Data Scientist Careers Networking @ UTS
Date: Friday, 19 October 2018 - 6:00pmVenue: Aerial UTS Function CentreThe NSW branch of the Statistical Society of Australia warmly invites all undergraduate, postgraduate and early career...
View ArticleCalmness in linear optimization. Some applications.
Speaker: Prof. Marco LópezAffiliation: University of Alicante, SpainDate: Thu, 13/12/2018 - 11:00amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: This talk presents an overview of research results on...
View ArticlePrime number races
Speaker: Greg MartinAffiliation: University of British ColumbiaDate: Tue, 20/11/2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: This talk is a survey of ``prime number races"....
View ArticleSpectral Geometry of the Laplacian and Isoperimetic Constants: Cheeger's...
Speaker: Ben MadafiglioAffiliation: University of New South WalesDate: Tue, 23/10/2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: In 1970, Cheeger bounded the lowest nonzero...
View ArticleUnderstanding the amount and distribution of fish in the ocean using size...
Speaker: Prof. Anthony J. RichardsonAffiliation: Queensland University, CSIRODate: Fri, 19/10/2018 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-M032, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Plankton are the microscopic plants and animals...
View ArticleBoundaries, conformal maps, and sub-Riemannian geometry
Speaker: Enrico Le DonneAffiliation: Research Fellow of the Finnish Academy, Associate professor (Yliopistonlehtori) at University of Jyväskylä, FinlandDate: Thu, 18/10/2018 - 12:00pmVenue: OMB-229,...
View ArticleThe best error terms for the prime number theorem
Speaker: Timothy TrudgianAffiliation: UNSW CanberraDate: Wed, 21/11/2018 - 3:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: In 1980 Pintz showed how to squeeze the most out of the zero-free region...
View ArticleMathematical appearances of sub-Riemannian geometries
Speaker: Enrico Le DonneAffiliation: University of Jyvaskyla, FinlandDate: Fri, 26/10/2018 - 2:00pm to 3:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Sub-Riemannian geometries are a generalization...
View ArticleCasimir de Lavergne wins prize for best thesis
Date: Wednesday, 17th October 2018 A very big congratulations to Casimir de Lavergne, who has won a prestigious prize for his thesis.At a ceremony in Monaco last Friday, Dr de Lavergne was conferred...
View ArticleSubfactors in Sydney 2019
Date: Monday, 4 February 2019 - 9:00am to Friday, 8 February 2019 - 5:00pmVenue: UNSW, Kensington CampusSubfactors in Sydney will be held at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia from...
View ArticleEnergetics of ocean turbulence from realistic modelling and observations
Speaker: Guillaume SerazinAffiliation: Climate Change Research Center UNSW SydneyDate: Thu, 06/12/2018 - 11:00amVenue: RC-2063, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Ocean turbulence and associated energetic...
View ArticleStatistics of the multiplicative group
Speaker: Greg MartinAffiliation: University of British ColumbiaDate: Wed, 21/11/2018 - 2:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The multiplicative group $M_n$ is the group of units in the...
View ArticleEffects of the Gulf Stream and Storms on Coastal Ocean Dynamics
Speaker: Ruoying HeAffiliation: North Carolina State University, Dept. of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric SciencesDate: Fri, 16/11/2018 - 11:00amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: TBCSchool...
View ArticleOn the improvement of mapping oceanic surface fields from satellite observations
Speaker: Marine RogeAffiliation: LEGOS (Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales), FranceDate: Thu, 15/11/2018 - 11:00amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Recent...
View ArticleNon-polyhedral extensions of the Frank and Wolfe Theorem
Speaker: Juan Enrique Martinez-Legaz Affiliation: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Date: Thu, 08/11/2018 - 11:00amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: In 1956 Marguerite Frank and Paul Wolfe...
View ArticleComputations of Galois groups and splitting fields
Speaker: Nicole SutherlandAffiliation: University of SydneyDate: Wed, 07/11/2018 - 3:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The Galois group of a polynomial is the automorphism group of its...
View ArticleData Science, setting a standard for the future
Speaker: Tom ParkAffiliation: Knowledge ExchangeDate: Fri, 26/10/2018 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-M032, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Tom will be presenting his vision for the Australian Data Science Institute,...
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