Seminars & Colloquia
For a list of past events click here.
Spring 2012
Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Alexey Gordienko, MUN
Title: Structure of H-(co)module Lie algebras
Winter 2012
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 Misère 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)
Fall 2011
Colloquium
Speaker: Andrew Critch, University of California - Berkeley
Title: What Causality Is
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Chufen Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Wen Xu
Title: Composition Operations on Holomorphic Morrey Spaces
Seminar
Speaker: Vineetha Warriyar, MUN
Title: Estimation With Improved Efficiency in Semi-parametric Linear Logitudinal Models
Seminar
Speaker: Ivan Booth, MUN
Titile: On the proximity of black hole horizons: lessons from Vaidya
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Rui Peng
Title: The Diffusive Logistic Model with A Free Boundary and Seasonal Succession
Seminar
Speaker: Mr. Ning Zhang, Memorial University
Title: "Supersolutions for semilinear heat equations with unbounded initial data"
Seminar
Speaker: Alexey Gordienko, Memorial University
Title: Graded polynomial identities, group actions and exponential
growth of Liealgebras. II
Seminar
Speaker: Alexey Gordienko, Memorial University
Title: Graded polynomial identities, group actions and exponential growth of Lie algebras.
Seminar
Speaker: Jonathan Lomond, Memorial University
Title: Growth functions of G-sets. II
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Yuan Yuan, Memorial University
Title: An Epidemic Model with Latency and Temporary Immunity
Seminar
Speaker: Selva Selvaratnam, Memorial University
Title: WAVELET DESIGNS FOR NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION MODELS WITH
AUTOCORRELATED ERRORS
Seminar
Speaker: Chithran Vasudevan, Memorial University
Title: Empirical Likelihood based Information Criterion for Change Point Problems
Seminar
Speaker: Tom Barid, Memorial University
Title: Moduli Spaces of Vector Bundles over a Real Curve
Seminar
Speaker: Mr. Jinyong Ying, Memorial University
Title: Multiple Periodic Solutions in A Delay-Coupled System of Neural Oscillators
Seminar
Spealer: Marco Merkli, Memorial University
Title: Spectral deformation and applications
Colloquium
Speaker: Sara Faridi, Dalhousie University
Title: Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra
Seminar
Speaker: Ron Haynes, MUN
Title: A Space-Time Parallel Method for PDEs
Seminar
Speaker: Jie Xiao, MUN
Title: The logarithmic capacity in higher dimensions
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Masoud Nasari, School of Mathematics & Statistics, Carleton University
Title: Another Look at Bootstrapping the Student f-statistics
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Xiaoyong Wu, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yalel Un iversity School of Medicine
Title: Parametric and Nonparametric Tests for Genetic Association Studies
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Juli Atherton
Title: Optimal design for clinical trials with an unknown delay in treatment effect
Seminar
Speaker: Rafiqul Chowdhury, MUN
Title: "Inferences in Multinomial Dynamic Fixed and Mixed Models"
Seminar
Speaker: Dr. Ronald Haynes, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Title: Application of Domain Decomposition Methods to Mesh Generation and Space-Time Parallelism for PDEs
Colloquium
Speaker: Dr. Etienne Farcot
Title: Piecewise affine models of gene regulatory networks
Seminar
Speaker: Ms. Yuxiang Zhang, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Title: Bistable Traveling Waves for a Competition Model with Seasonal Succession
Colloquium
Speaker: Tomas Albu, Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Romania
Title: The Hopkins-Levitzki Theorem: old and new (I)
Algebra Seminar
Date: September 21 2011
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: HH-3017
Speaker: Alex Gordienko, Memorial University
Title: Codimensions of polynomial identities of representations of Lie algebras
Abstract: S.A. Amitsur's conjecture about the asymptotic behaviour of codimensions of polynomial identities was proved by A. Giambruno and M.V. Zaicev for all associative and finite dimensional Lie algebras. We prove its analogue for polynomial identities of finite dimensional representations of Lie algebras.
Geometry, Topology and Physics Seminar
Date: September 14, 2011
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: HH-3026
Speaker: Ben Tippett, Memorial University
Title: Effective cloaking of an object through spacetime curvature
Abstract: Motivated by recent advancements in the design of optical cloaks, we ask the question: is it possible to use the curvature of spacetime to cloak an object? The answer: kind of. We present a spherically symmetric geometry which allows an object of arbitrary size (when placed at the geometric center) to appear arbitrarily small from the outside. The metric of the "effective cloaking" spacetime is presented, and it's properties are explored.
