Department of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquia 2022/23

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 2022/23: Dr. Isaac Burke

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND
 

SEMESTER 1
 

Date Speaker Institution Title
21/09/22 Professor Stephen Buckley Maynooth University Periodic rings, Boolean numbers, and related questions
28/09/22  Dr Mark Walsh Maynooth University The Space of Metrics Positive Intermediate Scalar Curvature
05/10/22 Dr Michelle Carey University College Dublin Estimating densities with asymmetry and excess kurtosis  
12/10/22 Professor Michael Grove University of Birmingham Rethinking programme and learning design post-pandemic within the mathematical sciences
19/10/22 Dr Fernando De Pol Mayer Maynooth University The false dilemma Bayesian vs Classical Statistics
26/10/22 Dr Patrick Heslin Maynooth University Geometry of Ideal Fluid Motion
09/11/22 Professor Anthony O' Farrell Maynooth University Exploring Our Capacities
16/11/22 Dr Jorge Bruno University of Winchester Well-quasi orders and twins of trees
23/11/22 Dr Marvin Anas Hahn Trinity College Dublin Tropical combinatorics and enumerative geometry
30/11/22 Dr Derek Kitson Mary Immaculate College Rigid graphs in dimension 3
07/12/22 Dr Áine Byrne University College Dublin
 
  An introduction to modelling the brain using mathematics
14/12/22
 
Professor David Wraith
 
Maynooth University
 
Gromov's Betti number bound and intermediate curvatures

 

SEMESTER 2
  

Date
 
Speaker
 
Institution
 
Title
 
01/02/23
 
Dr Padraig Ó Catháin
 
Dublin City University
 
The Hadamard maximal determinant problem
08/02/23

 

Dr Amir Jalali

 

University of Limerick

 

Prediction models for individual diagnosis & prognosis
15/02/23 Dr Ian Short The Open University Integer tilings and Farey complexes
22/02/23 Professor Yudi Pawitan Karolinska Institute  Epistemic confidence in the observed confidence interval
01/03/23 Professor Sally McClean Ulster University

  Stochastic Models and Data Analysis for Processes

08/03/23 Dr Ioannis Tsokanos University of Manchester   Visibility Problems in Discrete Geometry
22/03/23 Dr Kevin Credit Maynooth University Understanding urban street network structure with graph representation learning
27/03/23
Monday
Dr James Benn Université Côte d'Azur / INRIA Conjugate Points on the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms of the 2-sphere - but what are they, really?
29/03/23 Professor Katrin Wendland Trinity College Dublin Invariant versus generic
05/04/23 Dr Ian Banfield Maynooth University   The Fox conjecture, log-concavity and deep-learning
 
17/04/23
Monday
Sherry Zhang
 
Monash University New tools for visualising and explaining multivariate spatio-temporal data
19/04/23 Dr Demi Allen University of Exeter   Diophantine Approximation for Systems of Linear Forms
24/04/2023
Monday
Professor Tirthankar Bhattacharyya Indian Institute of Science
 
On distinguished varieties
26/04/23 Morgan Robson Maynooth University   Classical Curvature Flows and Weingarten Surfaces
 
03/05/23 Dr Alison Reddy University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign   Transitioning to Higher Education and Gateway Mathematics Course Outcomes (Perspective from a Large USA Public Research University)