MSI Weekly Bulletin - Week starting Monday, 3 May 2004

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.

This week:

PDE/Analysis Seminar
Algebra & Topology Seminar
CBiS Reading Group
Fourth Year Honours Students Seminar
MSI Colloquium
Geometry & Analysis Seminar
Visitors

Monday 3 May, 2004

2.00pm PDE/Analysis Seminar
Translation-Averages of Dyadic Weights
Lesley Ward, Harvey Mudd College, Visiting Fellow for the Women in Engineering and Information Sciences Program (WEIS Fellowship)

Tuesday 4 May, 2004

4.00pm Algebra and Topology seminar
Some interesting subgroups of primitive wreath products
Dr Csaba Schneider, The Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Wednesday 5 May, 2004

10.00am CBiS Reading Group
Please note change in time and venue
Room 1177, John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building
Discussion of presentations to be given in Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics "All Hands" meeting at IMB

Abstract

We will discuss the presentations that we are giving at the Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics "All Hands" meeting at IMB, UQ on Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th of May.
1) Markus: 10 minute talk
2) Lucia: 10 minute talk on poster
3) Shev: 10 minute talk on poster
4) Sue: k minute talk, where 0 =< k =< 10
5) Hilary, Conrad, Lucia: 10 minute talk about AMSI summer/winter schools
6) General discussion on what directions CBiS (and Adv Comp) are taking in 2004 (10 minutes).

4.00pm Fourth Year Honours Students seminar
The Riemann-Roch Theorem
Jason Lo, MSI

Abstract

There is a correspondence between the theory of nonsingular projective curves and that of compact Riemann surfaces. As a consequence, the algebraic formulation of the Riemann- Roch Theorem for curves can be interpreted in terms of complex analysis. For instance, notions such as divisors and genus have rather intuitive definitions. This talk centers around the Riemann-Roch Theorem, as an illustration of how algebraic and analytic methods come together nicely.

Thursday 6 May, 2004

4.00pm MSI Colloquium
Bisons, Butterflies and Bread Raising(Painleve) Equations
Professor Nalini Joshi, University of Sydney

Abstract

Most mathematical models using reaction-diffusion equations assume that the reaction term is spatially homogeneous. Even a simple dependence on the space variable leads to very different behaviours. We show how the first Painleve equation miraculously appears in population models and how its butterfly-like, exponentially sensitive solutions may matter.

Friday 7 May, 2004

2.00pm Geometry & Analysis seminar
Meeting to discuss topic for the next series of seminars

Visitors
This week Dr Csaba Schneider, an old student of Mike Newman's, will be returning for a brief visit to the Algebra and Topology Program. Csaba is now based at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Please welcome him back to the MSI.