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MSI Colloquia for 2008

Unless otherwise stated, MSI Colloquia are held in the Bernhard Neumann Seminar Room (G35) on the ground floor of the John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building, Bldg 27 (Map).

To have a MSI Colloquium listed in this page, email the details to Adam Sikora or Adam Rennie.

The MSI Colloquium given by a speaker from outside the ANU is usually followed by dinner, which is to be organized by the visitor's host. The host should send an email to msi (at) yin.anu.edu.au a day or two before to see who is interested in dinner. The MSI will cover the dinner costs for both the speaker and the host. The host will initially pay, then be reimbursed by Katie on the basis of the receipt (which should contain the ABN of the restaurant).

View MSI weekly bulletin (includes MSI Colloquium details for the week).

2007 MSI Colloquia

First Semester 2008



Date

Speaker

Title/Abstract

15/01/08

Alice Chang

(Princeton University)

(MSI SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM)

Q-curvature in Conformal Geometry


16/01/08

Paul Yang

(Princeton University)

(MSI SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM)

Pseudo-conformal geometry in dimension three


24/01/08

Min-Chun Hong

(University of Queensland)

(MSI SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM)

Some old and new results in liquid crystals


14/02/08

Tom ter Elst

(University of Auckland)

(MSI SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM)

Does diffusion determine the drum?


28/02/08

Michael J.D. Powell

(University of Cambridge)

The unimportance of theory in the development of optimization algorithms


06/03/08

Adam Rennie

(ANU)

The ever-expanding meaning of ‘Fredholm&rsquo


13/03/08

Vladimir Bogachev

(Moscow State University)

Elliptic and parabolic equations for measures: recent progress and open problems


18/03/08 (day is Tuesday)

Michael Cwikel

(Israel Institute of Technology)

Complex interpolation of compact operators. Creeping towards an answer?


27/03/08

Norman Dancer

(University of Sydney)

Infinitely many bifurcations for nonlinear elliptic equations where the nonlinearity has rapid growth


01/04/08 (day is Tuesday)

Alan Huckleberry

(Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany)

Surface Symmetry


03/04/08

Charlotte Wahl

(TBA)

Spectral Flow and Winding Number


10/04/08

Bob Anderssen

(CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, ANU)

Plant Breeding, Polymer Dynamics and Complete Monotonicity


17/04/08

Sergey Neshveyev

(University of Oslo)

Bost-Connes type systems, ergodic theory and equidistribution


24/04/08

Jason Grossman

(ANU)

Evidence-Based Medicine and statistical innovation


01/05/08

Vladimir Peller

(Michigan State University)

Approximation by analytic matrix functions


08/05/08

Ian Morrison

(Fordham University)

Birational Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Curves


15/05/08

Oliver Schnuerer

(Freie Universitat Berlin)

Surfaces Converging to Round Points


22/05/08

Denis J. Evans

(Research School of Chemistry, ANU)

The Fluctuation and Dissipation Theorems


29/05/08

David Hill

(Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, ANU)

Mathematical Aspects of Complex Systems


05/06/08

Amnon Neeman

(MSI, ANU)

Grothendieck duality via flat modules


12/06/08

Chris Bose

(University of Victoria, CANADA)

Looking for Ergodic Theory in Dynamical Systems


Second Semester 2008



Date

Speaker

Title/Abstract

10/07/08

Professor Steve Evans

(Departments of Statistics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley)

Simultaneous zeros of random polynomials, with variations on themes of Mahler, Brent and McKay


17/07/08

Professor Igor Verbitsky

(Univ of Missouri and Birmingham)

Quasilinear and Hessian equations and inequalities


24/07/08

Nirmalendu Chaudhuri

(Univ of Wollongong)

On derivation of Euler-Lagrange equiations for volume-preserving energy minimizer.


31/07/08

Andrew Hassell

(MSI)

Quantum Billiards


7/08/08

Vanessa Robins

(Department of Applied Maths, RSPhysSE, ANU)

Topological persistence for 3D image analysis


12/08/08

Ezra Getzler

(Northwestern) Note the day is Tuesday!

Teichmueller space and topological field theory in two dimensions


21/08/08

Bishnu Lamichhane

(MSI)

Finite Element Methods in Solid Mechanics: From Hu-Washizu to Primal-Dual Formulations


28/08/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


04/09/08

Jacques Perk

(Oklahoma State)

Integrability in Statistical Mechanics


11/09/08

Ivan Dynov

(MPIM-Bonn, MSI)

TBA


18/09/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


25/09/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


02/10/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


09/10/08

Professor David Hamilton

(TBA)

Riemann Mapping Theorem in R^3


16/10/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


23/10/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


30/10/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


06/11/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


13/11/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


20/11/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA


27/11/08

TBA

(TBA)

TBA