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MSI Weekly Bulletin - Week starting Monday 10 September, 2007

Unless otherwise stated, seminars 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 seminar listed in this page, email the details to seminars.owner@maths.anu.edu.au.

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This week:

  • Graduate Students Seminar
  • MSI Colloquium
  • New arrivals
Wednesday 12 September, 2007
3.00pm
Graduate Students Seminar
An Introduction to Categories
Greg Stevenson
John Dedman Building, G35
Honours and PhD students in particular are encouraged to attend
Abstract
The aim of this talk is to introduce and motivate the notions of category, functor, and natural transformation. A brief survey of the history of category theory will be given, together with the basic definitions and several examples, in order to try and provide some insight into why categories are of interest both as a language and as objects in their own right.
Thursday 13 September, 2007
4.00pm
MSI Colloquium
From circle rotations to optimal mass transportation
Gershon Wolansky, Technion University
John Dedman Building, G35
Abstract
I'll review the basic theory of circle rotations and the fundamentals of optimal mass transportation. Then, I'll show an interesting connection between these two, seemingly unrelated subjects. No prior knowledge is assumed on both.
New Arrivals

Please welcome the following people to the MSI:

  • Paul Baum, of Pennsylvania State University, visiting Alan Carey in Analysis and Geometry.
  • Andrea Carbonaro, of None, visiting Alan McIntosh in Analysis and Geometry.
  • Claudia Czado, of Technische U Muenchen, visiting Alan Welsh in Stochastic Analysis.
  • Jeff Hogan, of University of Arkansas, visiting Alan McIntosh in Analysis and Geometry.
  • Gernot Mueller, of Munich U of Technology, visiting Alan Welsh in Centre for Financial Mathematics.
  • Alireza Nematollahi, of None, visiting Alan Welsh in Centre for Financial Mathematics.
  • Guji Tian, of Wuhan Institute of Physics & Mathematics, visiting Xu-Jia Wang in Applied and Nonlinear Analysis.
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