Seminars & Colloquia
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Spring 2013
International Workshop in Combinatorial Algebra
Dalhousie University
Geometry and Topology Seminar
Speaker: Stefan Friedl, Universitat zu Koln, Germany
Title: The Virtual Fibering for 3-manifolds
Graduate Seminar
Speaker: Yuan Yuan, Memorial University
Title: Applied Dynamics with Time Delay
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Chunhua Ou, Memorial University
Title: Global Stability of Traveling Waves for a Nonlocal Model
Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Eduardo Martinez-Pedrosa, Memorial University
Title: On a theorem of Nielsen
Colloquium
Speaker: Alec Brookes, Memorial University, Dept. of German and Russian
Title: Non-Euclidean Geometry's Unlikely Intersection with Russian Literature
Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Gaelan Hanlon
Title: Subgroups of Hyperbolic Groups
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Brian Corbett, Memorial University
Title: Limit Cycles in Dynamical Systems
Graduate Seminar
Speaker: Isam Al-Darabsah, MUN
Title: Max-algebra
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Scott MacLachlan,Tufts University, Boston (Spousal Hire Candidate)
Title: Algebraic multigrid in theory and practice
Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Hari Kunduri, Memorial University
Title: Geometric inequalities in Riemannian manifolds II
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Xiaoqiang Zhao, Memorial University
Title: Traveling Waves for Monotone Semiflows with Weak Compactness
Graduate Seminar
Speaker: Richard Hanlon, Memorial University
Title: Dimension of Groups
Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Hari Kunduri, Memorial University
Title: Geometric inequalities in Riemannian manifolds
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Xiang-Sheng Wang
Title: Asymptotic Analysis and Applications
Graduate Seminar in Mathematics
Speaker: Julie Rose
Title: A Mathematical Model of the Human Sleep-Wake Cycle
Distinguished Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Mark Sapir
Title: Algorithmically Complicated Groups
AAC's Mini Course on Combinatorial Group Theory
Speaker: Professor Mark Sapir, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
Title: Combinatorial GroupTheory
Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Tom Baird, Memorial University
Title: Symplectic geometry and quantum field theory IV: Yang-Mills over a Riemann Surface.
Applied Dynamical Systems seminar
Speaker: Dr. Shu Zhang, PDF, Memorial University
Geometry Seminar
Speaker: Tom Baird, Memorial University
Title: Symplectic geometry and quantum field theory III: Topology of symplectic quotients.
Graduate Seminar in Mathematics
Speaker: Huadong Su, Memorial University
Title: The unit graph of a ring
Math Seminar
Speaker: Tom Baird, Memorial University
Title: Symplectic Geometry and Quantum Field Theory II: Loop spaces and the Dirac operator
Applied Dynamical Systems seminar
Speaker: Dr. Shu Zhang, PDF, Memorial University
Title: Stability Switch Boundaries in an Internet Congestion Model with Diverse Time Delays
Graduate Seminar in Matematics
Speaker: Ning Zhang
Title: Isoperimetric Inequality for k-Hessian Capacity
Research Talk
Speaker: Dr. Yildiz Yilmaz, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
Title: Methods for Analyzing Sequential Survival Times with Applications in Cancer Studies
Graduate Seminar in Mathematics
Speaker: Sadegheh Haghshenas (PH.D Candidate), Memorial University
Title: Constructing the Spectrum of Packings for theComplete Graph with 4-stars
Seminar
Speaker: Tom Baird, Memorial University
Title: Symplectic Geometry and Quantum Field Theory I
Departmental Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Benoit Collins, University of Ottawa
Title: Quantum information, free probability and random matrices
Departmental Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Hongying Shu
Title: Viral Infection Dynamics: A Global Analysis
Graduate Seminar in Mathematics
Speaker: Dr. Hari Kunduri, Memorial University
Title: Einstein Manifolds and Black Hole horizons
Departmental Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Ion Nechita, University Paul Sabatier
Title: Positive and completely positive maps via freeadditive powers of probability measures
Fall 2012
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Dr Hamid Usefi, Memorial University
Title: Lie solvable enveloping algebras
Graduate Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Ronald Haynes
Colloquium
Speaker: Candemir Cigsar, Women's College Research Institute - Ontario
Title: Testing for Trend and Carryover Effects in Recurrent Events
Departmental Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Bin-Guo Wang
Title: Basic Reproduction Ratios for Almost Periodic Compartmental Epidemic Models
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Andrews, University of Guelph
Title: Model-based learning: t-families, variable selectionand parameter estimation
Statistics Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Noel Cadigan, MUN
Applied Dynamical Systems seminar
Speaker: Xiao Yu, Memorial University
Title: Qualitative analysis of a model for co-cultureof bacteria and amoebae
Alegebra Seminar
Speaker: Serkan Sutlu
Title: Hopf-cyclic cohomology of Lie-Hopf algebras
Graduate Seminar
Speaker: Daniela Silvesan (Ph.D Candidate) Memorial University
Title: Cyclic Block Designs with Block Size 3 from Skolem-Type Sequences
AAC Colloquium
Speaker: Farid Aliniaeifard and Yuanlin Li
Title: Zero-divisor Graphs of Group Rings
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Mikhail Kotchetov, Memorial University
Title: Counting fine gradings on matrix algebras and on classical simple Lie algebras II"
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Yuxiang Zhang, PhD candidate, Memorial University
Title: Spatial Dynamics of A Reaction-Diffusion Model with Distributed Delay
Graduate Seminar in Mathematics
Speaker: Dr. Xiaoqiang Zhao, Memorial University
Title: The Dynamical Systems Approach to Differential Equations
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Amy Hurford, Memorial University
Combinatorics Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Gena Hahn, Universite de Montreal
Title: Cops and Robbers on Graphs Finite and Infinite
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Mikhail Kotchetov
Title: Counting fine gradings on matrix algebras and on classical simple Lie Algebras
Graduate Seminar
Spealer: Jie Xiao, Memorial University
Title: A Yau Problem for Variational Capacity
Applied and Computational seminar
Speaker: Jahrul Alam, Memorial university
Title: Multiscale modelling of fluid migration in subsurface aquifers
Graduate Seminar in Mathematics
Speaker: Dr Hamid Usefi, Memorial University
Title: Associative vs Non-Associative Algebras
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Yuan Yuan
Title: Homogeneous auxin steady states and spontaneous oscillations in flux-based auxin transport models
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Xiaoqiang Zhao, Memorial University
Title: A Reaction-Diffusion Model of Rabies withSpatial Heterogeneity
Colloquium
Speaker: Antonina Kolokolova
Title: How hard is proving hardness? Logic approach to barriers in complexity
Computional Math Seminar
Speaker: Vandad Talimi, Memorial University
Title: Numerical Modeling of Segmented Flows at Microscales
Colloquium
Speaker: Benjamin Smith, McGill University
Title: Singular G-monopoles
Graduate Seminar in Mathematics
Speaker: Dr. Jahrul Alam, Memorial University
Title: An introduction to modelling nanofluidics technology
Computational and Applied Math
Speaker: Polina Zheglova,Earth Science, MUN
Title: 2D level set travel time inversion
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Xiaoqiang Zhao, Memorial University
Title: Principal Eigenvalues and Basic Reproduction Numbers for Reaction-Diffusion Models
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Chunhua Ou, Memorial University
AAC Mini Course
Speaker: Professor Alexander Guterman, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics Moscow State University, Russia
Title: Tropical linear algebra and its applications
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Xiang-Sheng Wang, Memorial University
Title: Travelling wave solutions of a diffusive SIR modelwith media impact
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Yuri Bahturin, Memorial University
Title: Group gradings on nilpotent Lie algebras
Spring 2012
Seminar
Speaker: David Tian
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Ian Payne
Title: A Short Introduction to Universal Algebra
Speaker: Leandro Vendramin
Title: Nichols algebras with many quadratic relations
Departmental Colloquium
Speaker:Weihua Jiang
Title: Codimension-two Bifurcations in Neutral Functional Differential Equations
Algebra Seminar
Speaker:Nicolas Andruskiewitsch
Title:From Hopf algebras to tensor categories
Departmental Colloquium
Speaker: Nicolas Andruskiewitsch
Title: The classification problem for finite-dimensional Hopf algebras
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Csaba Schneider (CAUL, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Title: Constructive membership testing in classical groups
Public Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Robert Mann,University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute
Title: The Lighter Side of Black Holes
Colloquium
Speaker: Daniel Horsley, Monash University
Title: Compressed sensing and hash families
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Alexey Gordienko, Memorial University
Title: Amitsur's conjecture for polynomial H-identitiesof H-module Lie algebras
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Alexey Gordienko, MUN
Title: Structure of H-(co)module Lie algebras
Winter 2012
Honours Presentation Day
Computational and Applied Math Seminar (CAM)
Speaker: Dr. Tomasz Danek, Department of Earth Sciences
Title: Global optimization and Bayesian inversion for finding effective elasticity tensors
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Binguo Wang,Lanzhou University
Title: Limit Set Trichotomy and Dichotomy for Skew-Product Semiflows with Application
Combinatorics Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Ryan Tifenbach, Memorial University
Title: Spectral Graph Theory II
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Humphries, Memorial University
Title: Simultaneous optimization of well placement and control using ahybrid global-local strategy
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Rui Peng, Memorial University
Combinatorics Seminar
Speaker: Rebecca Milley, Dalhousie University
Title: Lessons in Losing: An Introduction to Misere Game Theory
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Yuxiang Zhang, Memorial University.
Title: A reaction-diffusion Lyme disease model with seasonality
Colloquium
Speaker: Dan Ramras,New Mexico State University--Las Cruces
Title: Large-scale geometry and group rings.
GTAP Seminar
Speaker: Dan Ramras,New Mexico State University - Las Cruces
Title: Spaces of representations and the topologicalAtiyah-Segal transformation.
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Speaker: Ronald Haynes, Memorial University
Title: Computing Matrix Inverses - another look
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Thormod Johansen, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science/Earth Science Professor and Canada Research Chair
Title: A Modular Approach to Integrated Modeling ofAdvanced Wells
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Alexey Gordienko, Memorial University
Title: Graded polynomial identities, group actions, Hopf module algebras, and exponential growth
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Yuan Yuan, Memorial University
Title: A non-nitrogen-fixing/nitrogen-fixing phytoplankton growth model with nutrient and light
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Humphries, Memorial University
Title: Simultaneous optimization of well placement and control using a hybrid global-local strategy
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Hermann Brunner,MUN, Hong Kong Baptist University
Title: Finite-time blow-up of solutions to semilinear parabolic integro-differential equations'
GTAP Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Zhuang Niu,Memorial University
Title: The Index map for the C*-algebras of a homeomorphism on the Cantor set with finitely minimal subsets
AAC Mini Course
Speaker: Professor Vladimir Shpilrain, Department of Mathematics The City College of New York
Title: Non-commutative cryptography
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Jinyong Ying,Memorial University
Title: Equivariant Bifurcation in a Symmetrical RingNetwork with Delay
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Speaker: Dr Martin Plumer,Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University
Title: "NEW PARADIGMS IN MAGNETIC RECORDING: UNDERSTANDING THROUGH MICROMAGNETIC MODELING."
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Edgar Goodaire,Memorial University
Title: Jordan Loops and Loop Rings: A Mix of Combinatorics and Algebra
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Yi Zhang, Memorial University
Title: Travelling wavefronts of non-local reaction-diffusion models for cell adhesion and cancer invasion
Seminar
Speaker: Dr Martin Plumer, Chair of the Computational Science program.
Title: "NEW PARADIGMS IN MAGNETIC RECORDING: UNDERSTANDING THROUGH MICROMAGNETIC MODELING."
AAC Colloquium
Speaker: Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza, MUN
Title: Residual finiteness, subgroup separabilityand non-positively curved groups
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Zhen Wang, Memorial University
Title: Global Dynamics of A Time-DelayedDengue Transmission Model
Seminar
Speaker: Thomas Humphries,Memorial University
Title: Temporal regularization and artifact correction in singleslow-rotation dynamic SPECT
GTAP Seminar
Speaker: Wei Sun, Memorial University
Title: Crossed product C*-algebras and minimal dynamical systems
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Iakov Afanassiev, Physics and Physical Oceanography
Title: Laboratory Experiments in the Rotating Fluid Using Altimetric Image Velocimetry
Mathematics Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Jie Xiao, Mathematics & Statistics, MUN
Title: Isoperimetry for Semilinear Torsion Problems in Riemannian two-manifolds
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Colin Farquharson, Earth Science, MUN
Title: A Story About Electromagnetics, Integral Equations, and Scale Models
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. X. Zhao, Memorial University
Title: Some remarks on Periodic Solutions for Functional Differential Equations
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Mikhail Kotchetov
Title: Weyl groups of fine gradings
Applied Dynamical Systems Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Etienne Farcot,
(INRIA Sophia Antipolis Mediterranee in the Virtual Plants team, France)
Title: Patterns Induced by Active Transport in Cellular Tissues
Departmental Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Rongsong Liu, University of Wyoming
Title: Spatiotemporal Mutualistic Model for Mistletoes and Birds
Informal Discussion
Speaker: Andrew Critch, University of California - Berkeley
Title: How algebraic geometry can improve machine learning (an informal discussion)
