A quasi-Monte Carlo Method for an Optimal Control Problem
Speaker: Philipp GuthAffiliation: University of Mannheim, GermanyDate: Tue, 09/04/2019 - 11:05amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: In this work we apply a quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method to...
View ArticleGeneralised vector products applied to affine and projective rational...
Speaker: Dr Gennady Arshad Notowidigdo Affiliation: UNSW SydneyDate: Thu, 04/04/2019 - 12:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: In the second part of a two-part talk, we will be using the...
View ArticleHigher order QMC rules for uncertainty quantification using periodic random...
Speaker: Vesa KaarniojaAffiliation: UNSW, Sydney.Date: Tue, 02/04/2019 - 11:05amVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: A popular model for the parametrization of random fields in uncertainty...
View ArticleMoving away from SRS to Astra...what are we getting ourselves into?
Speaker: John Steele and Bill McLeanAffiliation: UNSW SydneyDate: Wed, 10/04/2019 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Details of Astra will be provided. School Seminar Series:...
View ArticleNew bounds on multilinear exponential sums
Speaker: Simon MacourtAffiliation: UNSWDate: Wed, 03/04/2019 - 3:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: We build upon the existing results of multilinear exponential sums over prime fields...
View ArticleOn the decimal expansion of log(2019/2018) and e
Speaker: Yann BugeaudAffiliation: University of StrasbourgDate: Wed, 03/04/2019 - 2:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: It is commonly expected that $e$, $\log 2$, $\sqrt{2}$, among other...
View ArticleDroughts and flooding rains – statistical methods for hydrological extremes
Speaker: Fiona JohnsonAffiliation: UNSW Faculty of EngineeringDate: Wed, 17/04/2019 - 4:00amVenue: RC-2060, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: TBASchool Seminar Series: Fluid Dynamics Seminar
View ArticleForecasting of density functions with an application to cross-sectional and...
Speaker: A/Prof. Hanlin ShangAffiliation: Australian National UniversityDate: Fri, 05/04/2019 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: This paper is concerned with forecasting probability...
View ArticleReconstructing simplicial group actions
Speaker: Yusra NaqviAffiliation: University of SydneyDate: Tue, 09/04/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Many simplicial complexes which are important from a...
View ArticleOn the best constants for free Khintchine inequalities
Speaker: Leonard CadilhacAffiliation: Université de Caen NormandieDate: Wed, 10/04/2019 - 12:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The problem of finding the best constant for Khintchine...
View ArticleAddressing redundancy in column generation using Benders' decomposition cuts
Speaker: Dr Stephen J MaherAffiliation: Zuse Institute BerlinDate: Thu, 16/05/2019 - 11:05amVenue: MC-032, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: When solving the linear programming (LP) relaxation of a...
View ArticleA Kazhdan--Lusztig algorithm for Whittaker modules
Speaker: Anna RomanovAffiliation: University of SydneyDate: Tue, 16/04/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Whittaker modules are certain representations of Lie...
View ArticleImplicit Langevin Algorithms for Sampling From Log-concave Densities
Speaker: Rob SalomoneAffiliation: UNSW SydneyDate: Fri, 12/04/2019 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: For sampling from a log-concave density, we study implicit integrators resulting...
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David Harvey's algorithm multiplies integers faster than all previous algorithms
Date: Monday, 8th April 2019 A/Prof. David Harvey and his collaborator Joris van der Hoeven have posted a HAL preprint that describes a new algorithm for multiplication of two $n$-bit integers in $O(n...
View ArticleDivergence in right-angled Coxeter groups
Speaker: Anne ThomasAffiliation: University of SydneyDate: Tue, 23/04/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The notion of divergence of geodesics was introduced by...
View ArticleCurves and Surfaces III: The remarkable role of De Casteljau Bezier curves in...
Speaker: Prof N J WildbergerAffiliation: UNSW SydneyDate: Thu, 18/04/2019 - 12:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The most important 20th century development in the theory of curves and...
View ArticleCreating an online course: digital learning with Ed LMS
Speaker: Scott Maxwell Affiliation: Director Digital Innovation, Information GatewaysDate: Wed, 17/04/2019 - 4:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: Background: Ed LMS is an innovative...
View ArticleOn the distribution of fractions with power denominator
Speaker: Bryce KerrAffiliation: UNSW CanberraDate: Wed, 17/04/2019 - 3:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: In this talk we describe some progress to a conjecture of Zhao on the...
View ArticleMöbius Randomness Law from the viewpoint of Chowla’s and Sarnak’s conjectures
Speaker: Houcein El AbdalaouiAffiliation: University of RouenDate: Wed, 17/04/2019 - 2:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: The Liouville function assigns the value $+1$ to $n$ if the...
View ArticleBabylonian proto-trigonometry: a tale of three tablets
Speaker: Dr Daniel MansfieldAffiliation: UNSW SydneyDate: Mon, 29/04/2019 - 12:00pmVenue: RC-4082, The Red Centre, UNSWAbstract: We discuss Si.427 from the Istanbul Archeological Museum, which was...
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