Colloquia 2024/25

Time and Location: All colloquia will take place in MS2, Top Floor, Logic House, South Campus on Wednesdays at 3pm unless otherwise stated.

Colloquium Organiser for the academic year 2024/25: Dr. Keefe Murphy

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

SEMESTER 1

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
25/09/24	Nathan McJames	Maynooth University	Extensions of Bayesian Causal Forests with Applications to Large-Scale Educational Studies
02/10/24	Steven Robertson	University of Manchester	A Combinatorial Approach to the t-adic Littlewood Conjecture
09/10/24	Dr Christian Ketterer	Maynooth University	Synthetic Ricci curvature bounded from below for metric measure spaces and applications
23/10/24	Professor Christian Ikenmeyer	University of Warwick	P versus NP and connections to algebraic geometry, representation theory, and algebraic combinatorics
06/11/24	Professor Andrew Parnell	Maynooth University	Spatio-temporal extreme value analysis of temperatures in Ireland
13/11/24	Dr Szymon Urbas	Maynooth University	A probabilistic take on the partial least squares regression method
20/11/24	Dr Richard Smith	University College Dublin	A solution to the extreme point problem in Lipschitz-free spaces
27/11/24	Victor Shirandami	University of Manchester	Probabilistic Effectivity in The Subspace Theorem
04/12/24	Prof. Ronan Reilly	Maynooth University	Differentiable programming with Julia
11/12/24	Dr. Rishabh Vishwakarma	Trinity College Dublin	Novel visualisation tools for exploring compositional data and interpreting statistical models with compositional predictors
18/12/2024	Dr Emma Howard	Trinity College Dublin	Cluster analysis in educational research: Let's start with the research question!

SEMESTER 2

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title
05/02/25	Dr. Marta Nai Ruscone	University of Genova	Mixture-based clustering with covariates for ordinal responses
12/02/25	Dr. Andrea Cappozzo	University of Milan	Sparse model-based clustering of three-way data via lasso-type penalties
19/02/25	Dr. Luiza Piancastelli	University College Dublin	Recent Advances in Statistical Models for Rankings
26/02/25	Prof. Claire Gormley	University College Dublin	A consensus-constrained parsimonious Gaussian mixture model for clustering hyperspectral images
05/03/25	Prof. Faustin Adiceam	Université Paris-Est Créteil	Rational points and Brownian motion
12/03/25	Dr. Wenjie Fang	Université Gustave Eiffel	Tamari intervals and blossoming trees
26/03/25	Kevin Horan	Maynooth University	Exploring the spatial characteristics of recent UK elections
02/04/25	Prof. Sarah Hart	Birkbeck, University of London	Mathematics and its history, through literature
09/04/25	Laura Hernandez-Cabezas	Maynooth University	k-Positive Ricci curvature: existence and applications
16/04/25	Prof. Lara Alcock	Loughborough University	Reasoning about Mathematical ‘If-Then’ Statements
30/04/25	Jacquie Birkett	Maynooth University	Positive Ricci-(k,n) curvature and Gromov-Lawson concordance
07/05/25	Luke McEvoy	Maynooth University	Isotopy, Concordance, and Positive Intermediate Scalar Curvature

Research