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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

TitleThe 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

TitleOn the Stability and Multi-stability of a TCP/RED Congestion Control Model with State-dependent Delay and Discontinuous Marking Function

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

Title: An introduction to domain decomposition methods for the parallel solution of partial differential equations

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

Title:  A nonparametric approach to fitting a stock-recruitment relationship, and implications for fisheries management reference points.

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

Title: The effect of three different interventions on the prevalence of antibioticresistance in the Intensive Care Unit

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

TitleHow 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

Title:  Diffusion, Chemotaxis and Pattern Formation: A Case Study Via Topological method and Asymptotic Analysis

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

Title: Uniqueness of Extremal Kerr-Newman Isolated Horizons: Quasilocal Intrinsic Structure, Near-Horizon Geometry and Distortion of Extremal Horizons

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

Blundon Seminar 2012

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

Title: Effects of Diffusion and Advection on the Principal Eigenvalue of a Periodic-parabolic Problem with Applications

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)

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