Department of Mathematics & Statistics Colloquia 2018/19

    Time and Location: All colloquia take place on Wednesday at 4pm in MS2, Top Floor, Logic House, South Campus, Maynooth University, unless otherwise indicated.

    Colloquium Organiser for the academic year 2018/19: Dr. Rafael De Andrade Moral

    ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

    Date Speaker Institution Title
    18/07/18 Prof. Idemauro Lara University of São Paulo, Brazil Transition models and tests to assess stationarity
    26/09/18 Dr. Mark Walsh Maynooth University Loops, Spheres and Scalar Curvature
    03/10/18 Prof. Roderick Gow UCD André Darré: Maynooth lecturer in Mathematics and Science (1801 – 1813)
    10/10/18 Prof. Anthony G. O'Farrell Maynooth University Boundary values of holomorphic distributions
    17/10/18 Prof. John Hinde NUI Galway Over/Under-dispersion, zero-inflation and Poisson-Tweedie models
    24/10/18 Prof. Virgilio Gómez-Rubio Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Inference on Bayesian hierarchical models with INLA and MCMC
    07/11/18 Dr. Faustin Adiceam University of Manchester Recent advances related to the construction of dense forests
    14/11/18 Dr. Philip Beeley University of Oxford Advancing the Public Good. A Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Life
    21/11/18 Prof. John Cosgrave   Gauss factorials, and Gauss primes (joint work with Karl Dilcher)
    28/11/18 Dr. Niamh Cahill UCD Using Bayesian Modelling Approaches to Assess Progress Towards Reaching Targets for Family Planning
    05/12/18 Professor James Wilson Colorado State University Removing the grid from a grid of numbers
    12/12/18 Dr. Klara Stokes Maynooth University Configurations of intersecting lines or circles
    19/12/18 Dr. Hideyasu Shimadzu Loughborough University Investigating biodiversity change over time
    06/02/19 Pavlos Kassotakis University of Cyprus Invariants in separated variables: Yang-Baxter and entwining maps
    13/02/19 Professor Andrew Parnell Maynooth University Learning analytics and its potential application to Maynooth
    18/02/19
     MONDAY    		 Professor Nigel Ray University of Manchester Octonions and projective space: geometry without associativity
    20/02/19 Professor Michael Fop UCD The infinite latent position cluster model for multivariate networks
    27/02/19 Professor Merrilyn Goos University of Limerick Crossing Boundaries: Fostering Collaboration between Mathematics Educators and Mathematicians in Initial Teacher Education Programs
    06/03/19 Dr. Clifford Gilmore UCC The Dynamics of Linear Operators
    13/03/19 Professor June Barrow-Green The Open University Mathematicians at War
    27/03/19 Professor Simon Kristensen Aarhus University Arithmetic properties of series of reciprocals of algebraic integers
    01/04/19
    MONDAY    		 Dr. Mark Robinson Maynooth University Big Data Immunology: The growing impact of data science on immunology research
    03/04/19 Professor Stephen Buckley Maynooth University Quasihyperbolic geodesics are hyperbolic quasigeodesics
    10/04/19 Professor Catherine Goldstein CNRS, Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, France Mathematics as an observational science: the case of Charles Hermite
    24/04/19 Dr. John Ferguson NUI Galway Graphical representation and comparison of attributable fractions across multiple disease risk factors
    29/04/19
    MONDAY    		 Professor Byron Morgan University of Kent Forming multi-species indices: Behind the scenes
    01/05/19 Professor Radha Kessar City, University of London Rationality and finiteness in modular group representation theory
    08/05/19 Dr. Mikael Fremling Utrecht University Detecting the onset of crystalline order using full counting statistics
    13/05/19
    MONDAY @3pm    		 Professor Clarice Demétrio University of São Paulo, Brazil Planning of experiments and the use of Hasse diagrams
    22/05/2019 Professor Colm Mulcahy Spelman College One, Two, Many (or a dozen reasons why mathematics isn’t as easy as 1,2,3)

    Archives: Seminars & Colloquia 1998-2018