Seminars
The School of Mathematics and Statistics runs many seminars series
including the
- CIAM SMS Research Seminars
- Postgraduate Students' Seminar
- Distinguished Lecturer Series
- SigmaOpt Seminars
- Phenomics and Bioinformatics Seminars
- External Seminars and Events
- Seminar Archives
2011 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Seminar Series | Speaker | Title (Link to abstract) | Location & Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 22 December | SMS | Dr Carlo Lucheroni, University of Camerino, Italy | SAS (Spike-AntiSpike) models: mean reversion, seasonality, nonlinearity and topology in tight market econometrics | GK5-24, City West, 12:00-13:00 |
| Thursday 15 December | PBRC SMS | Professor Michal Abrahamowicz, McGill University, Canada | Flexible modelling of time-dependent, non-linear and cumulative covariate effects in survival analysis | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 13:15-14:15pm |
| Tuesday 6 December | Postgraduate | Mustafa Rizvi | Scalarization technique for multiobjective optimization problem for strong Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions | J1-06, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 2 December | CIAM SMS | Dr Robby McKilliam, Institute for Telecommunications Research, UniSA | Identifiability and aliasing in polynomial phase signals | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 11:00-12:00 |
| Thursday 24 November | Postgraduate | Muntazam Kamaruzaman | Train scheduling and cooperative games | J1-06, Mawson Lakes, 13:00-14:00 |
| Monday 21 November | SigmaOpt | Professor Markus Hegland, Australian National University | A finite element method for density estimation with Gaussian process priors | Q1-01, Mawson Lakes, 14:00-15:00 |
| Friday 18 November | CIAM SMS | Dr Yoni Nazarathy, Swinburne University of Techonology | Finite Buffer Fluid Networks with Overflows | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 11 November | Honours | Dermot Blumson, Josh Chopin and Lisa Schultz | Honours Thesis Presentations | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 10:30-12:00 |
| Friday 11 November | CIAM SMS | Dr Mark Nelson, University of Wollongong | Uses of videos as resources for teaching mathematics | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Tuesday 8 November | SigmaOpt | Assoc Professor Vladimir Ejov, UniSA | Perturbed Determinants, Spectral Theory and Longest Cycles on Graphs | Q1-01, Mawson Lakes, 14:00-15:00 & via Access Grid |
| Friday 4 November | CIAM SM | Dr Alex Rowlands, School of Health Sciences, UniSA | Can mathematical principles be utilised to improve assessment of physical activity and thus shed some light on the role of physical activity in public health? | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 21 October | CIAM SMS | Dr Ji Li, UniSA | Singular integrals and the related function spaces on the boundary of certain domains in C^{n+1} | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 14 October | CIAM SMS | Assoc Professor Vladimir Ejov, UniSA | Perturbed Determinants, Spectral Theory and Longest Cycles on Graphs | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 7 October | CIAM SMS | Assoc Professor Reinhard Schulte, Loma Linda University Medical Center, California | Iterative Projection Methods and Constrained Optimization Applied to Proton Therapy | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Thursday 6 October | Postgraduate | Hazlina Darman | Application of Malliavin Calculus in Finance | J1-06, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 16 September | CIAM SMS | Dr Wilhelm Freire, Universidade de Juiz de Fora, Brazil | A New Algorithm for Nonconvex and Nonsmooth Optimization | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 9 September | CIAM SMS | Professor Cristina Pereyra, University of New Mexico | Weighted inequalities and dyadic harmonic analysis | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 26 August | Postgraduate | Ludmila Manic | Linear Programming/Occupational Measure based approach to Singularly Perturbed Control Systems | J1-06, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Tuesday 16 August | SigmaOpt |
Liangjin Yao, University of British Columbia, Canada |
For maximally monotone linear relations, dense type, negative-infimum type, and Fitzpatrick-Phelps type all coincide with monotonicity of the adjoint | Q1-01, Mawson Lakes, 14:30-15:30 |
| Friday 5 August | CIAM SMS | Dr Gerald Cheang, UniSA | A modern view on Merton's Jump-Diffusion model | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 29 July | PBRC SMS | Assoc Professor Michael Small, Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Complex Networks - Chaotic Dynamics | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Wednesday 20 July | CIAM SMS | Professor Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Middle East Technical University, Turkey | Research Progress and New Applications of Eco-Finance Networks and Cooperative Game Theory | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 8 July | CIAM SMS | Professor Emmanuel Chanda, University of Adelaide | Optimisation opportunities in the minerals industry | F1-25, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 1 July | CIAM SMS | Dr Marie Snipes, Kenyon College, Ohio | Soap films, image processing, and the "flat chains" of geometric measure theory | H1-35, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 24 June | Postgraduate | Nahid Banihashemi | Inexact Restoration method to solve the constrained optimal control problems | J1-06, Mawson Lakes, 15:00-16:00 |
| Friday 3 June | CIAM SMS | Professor Jerzy Filar, UniSA | Genes, Mutants, Crackers and the Cubic Hamiltonian Cycle Problem | H1-35, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 27 May | CIAM SMS | Assoc Professor Regina Burachik | On a sufficient condition for equality of two maximal monotone operators | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 20 May | Postgraduate | Kuhn Ip | Analysis of Complex Metabolic Behaviour through Systematic Pathway Decomposition | J1-06, Mawson Lakes, 14:00-15:00 |
| Wednesday 4 May | Distinguished Lecturer | Professor Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia | Fifty years of permutation groups: questions and answers for group theory number theory, combinatorics and finite geometry | Q1-01, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Tuesday 3 May | CIAM SMS | Professor Walter Murray, Stanford University | Algorithms for the equilibration of matrices and their application to limited-memory quasi-Newton methods | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Thursday 28 April | CIAM SMS | Professor Ockie Bosch, University of Queensland | Systems-based approaches for the establishment of Learning Laboratories for managing complex issues | H1-42, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 15 April | Distinguished Lecturer | Professor John Sader, University of Melbourne | Dynamics of Nanomechanical Devices in Fluid Environments | Q1-01, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Wednesday 13 April | CIAM SMS | Professor Xuan Duong, Macquarie University | Recent progress on singular integral operators and function spaces | H1-35, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Friday 11 March | CIAM SMS | Dr Sam Drake, Defence Science and Technology Organisation | Cosmology: An Introduction and Status Report | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| Wednesday 2 March | Distinguished Lecturer | Professor Martin Groetschel, Technische Universität Berlin | Mathematical Aspects of Public Transport | GP1-09, Mawson Lakes, 16:00-17:00 |
| Monday 7 February | CIAM SMS | Professor Darren Crowdy, Imperial College London | A new calculus for ideal fluid dynamics | Q1-01, Mawson Lakes, 10:00-11:00 |
| Friday 28 January | CIAM SMS | Dr Tristan Barnett, University of South Australia | Obtaining a fair arbitration outcome | GP1-08, Mawson Lakes, 12:00-13:00 |
| January 20-21 | Postgraduate | Nahid Banihashemi | Adaptive mesh refinement and inexact restoration method to solve the optimal control problems | Mawson Lakes |
| Indu Wadhawan | Optimal trip sequences for transporting grain from silos | |||
| Ghazaleh Mohammadian | A statistical view of price spikes in the Australian National Electricity Market | |||
| Dale Ward | Extended domain eigenfunction and level set method for modelling dynamic Stokes flow systems | |||
| Andrew Plumridge | Modelling of droughts in the Murray-Darling basin |
Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics / School of Mathematics and Statistics (CIAM SMS) Research Seminars
The CIAM SMS Research Seminars are mainly held at our Mawson Lakes campus. If you would like to be included on the School of Mathematics and Statistics seminar list and be advised of upcoming events, please email the Seminar Co-ordinator, Dr Bronwyn Hajek.
Postgraduate Students' Seminar
The School also holds an informal seminar series by the School's postgraduate students, co-ordinated by Assoc. Professor Regina Burachik.
Distinguished Lecturer Series
For further information please see the Distinguished Lecturer Series page on the CIAM website.
SigmaOpt Seminars
Associate Professor Regina Burachik is the Secretary of the ANZIAM Special Interest Group in Mathematical Optimisation (SigmaOpt). The full schedule of SigmaOpt Seminars, including those held at other universities (but available to view here via the Access Grid) can be found here.
Phenomics and Bioinformatics Seminars
The Phenomics and Bioinformatics Seminars are listed on the Events page on the PBRC website.
External Seminars and Events
Listings of external seminars and events, some of which are available to view via the Access Grid room, is available on the following site:
Seminar Archives