# Seminar Archive - 2016

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.

Dr Julia Collins - University of Edinburgh
There are many unexpected links between mathematics and knitting, and this talk will be an informal survey of some of the areas of overlap. We can use knitting and crochet to express mathematical...

Dean Rickles - University of Sydney
TBA

Georgy Sofronov - Macquarie University
We observe a sequence of random variables and have to decide when we must stop, given that there is no recall allowed, that is, a random variable once rejected cannot be chosen later on. Our decision...

Mark Watkins - University of Sydney
The Riemann zeta-function is the most well-known example of a class of objects known as $L$-functions. Historically, it and the other degree 1 $L$-functions, those of Dirichlet, were the first to be...

Eric Renault - Brown University
We consider consistent estimation of parameters in a structural model by Indirect Inference (II) when the exogenous variables can be missing at random (MAR) endogenously. We demonstrate that II...

Min Sha - UNSW
In algebraic number theory, given a number field, the lattice derived from its embeddings by using its ring of integers is used to prove that the class number of the number field is finite. In this...

János Pach - EPFL, Lausanne and Renyi Institute, Budapest
By Ramsey's theorem, any system of n segments in the plane has roughly log n members that are either pairwise disjoint or pairwise intersecting. Analogously, any set of n points p(1),..., p(n) in the...

Joe Ward - Texas A&M University, College Station
Highly efficient representation and processing of multidimensional data (smoothing, compression, etc.) is best suited using approximation spaces with highly (spatially) localized bases. Over the past...

Edgar Costa - Dartmouth College
I will discuss a new simple and practical point-counting algorithm for curves over finite fields, given by plane models, possibly singular.This is joint work with David Harvey.

Tianping Zhang - Shaanxi Normal University
Let $p> 2$ be an odd prime. For each integer $b$ with $1\leq b<p$ and $(b, p)=1$, there is a unique integer $c$ with $1\leq c<p$ such that $bc\equiv 1(\bmod p)$. Let $M(1,p)$ denote the...