Seminars and Colloquia Fall 2011

Fall 2011

Colloquium

Speaker: Andrew Critch, University of California - Berkeley

Title: What Causality Is

Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Chufen Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Title: Traveling Waves in A Diffusive Predator-Prey System of Holling Type: Point- to-

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 Model

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 Liealgebr

Seminar

Speaker: Alexey Gordienko, Memorial University

Title: Graded polynomial identities, group actions and exponential growth of Lie algeb

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 P

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.