Seminar Archive - 2011

Our regular seminar program covers a broad range of topics from applied mathematics, pure mathematics and statistics. All staff and students are welcome. A complete list of past seminars can be accessed via the left-hand menu.

Ever since Akaike proposed the Information Criteria named after him, his approach to model selection has been an important part of statistical data analysis. As a result, many further Information Criteria have been proposed and the topic is still an...

We present a systematic study of asymptotic behavior of (generalised) \zeta-functions and heat kernels used in noncommutative geometry and clarify their connections with Dixmier traces. We strengthen and complete a number of results from the recent...

Object Oriented Data Analysis is the statistical analysis of populations of complex objects.  In the special case of Functional Data Analysis, these data objects arecurves, where standard Euclidean approaches, such as principal components...

Variational analysis has been well recognized as a rapidly growing and fruitful area inmathematics motivated mainly by the study of constrained optimization and equilibriumproblems, while also applying perturbation ideas and variational principles...

Quantum groups can be considered as deformations of a function algebra on locally compact groups. Many properties of abstract harmonic analysis have a suitable interpretation in the deformed setting. For deformations of Lie groups also geometrical...

Curvature flows have played a very important role in recent developments in geometry and topology, such as, resolution of Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture for 3-manifolds by using Ricci flow. In this talk, I will discuss two new curvature flows...

This presentation introduces recent research efforts and results in identifying and predicting time-dependent processes, with various degrees of model discontinuity and uncertainty. This generalization is gradually unfolded, while always motivated...

We will consider a class of infinite-dimensional non-symmetric Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. They provide a general model for a large variety of equations, including stochastic equations with time delays, stochastic heat equations and stochastic...

The Mathematical and Statistical Biology Symposium is an informal forum for researchers to hear about work in progress.  The format consists of a 30 minute presentation followed by coffee and cake in a nearby cafe.  Postgrads are...

Wei's Duality Theorem states a simple, elegant, and fundamental dual property for linear codes (also called vector spaces). This talk demonstrates how this theorem can be generalised successively to give two very general duality theorems for a broad...