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MSI Weekly Bulletin - Week starting Monday 24 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.

View all MSI colloquia for the year.

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This week:

  • Graduate Students Seminar
  • Fourth Year Honours Students Seminar
  • New arrivals
Wednesday 26 September, 2007
3.00pm
Graduate Students Seminar
An Introduction to Categories II
Greg Stephenson
John Dedman Building, G35
Get there 2:45 for biscuits and coffee!
Abstract
Having given a brief introduction to the language of categories we are now able to describe some of the fundamental constructions. Limits, colimits, and adjoints will be defined and several examples will be given. The relationship between these constructions will also be described.
4.00pm
Fourth Year Honours Students Seminar
Radial Basis Functions and Volume of Fluid Methods
Robert Saye
John Dedman Building, G35
Abstract
In this talk two topics are introduced: the volume of fluid (VOF) method and the theory of radial basis functions. The VOF method is a numerical technique to track the interface between two regions in space, and has applications in modelling two-phase fluid flow. On the other hand, radial basis functions offer a general method to interpolate scattered data in any dimension, and have a rich mathematical theory concerning the approximation and smoothness properties of such interpolants. Some results that combine the two methods, to create a new interface reconstruction algorithm, are also presented.
New Arrivals

Please welcome the following people to the MSI:

  • Finnur Larusson, of university of Adelaide, visiting Alan Carey in Analysis and Geometry.
  • John Phillips, of None, visiting Alan Carey in Analysis and Geometry.
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