# Seminar Archive - 2017

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.

Daniel Mansfield - School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW SYDNEY
In 2017 the UNSW School of Mathematics and Statistics began using online tools to provide helpful and constructive feedback to students in MATH1081 Discrete Mathematics. NUMBAS is a free, open source...

Mark Girolami - University of Warwick UK / Imperial College London UK
Urban systems are complex in nature and comprise of a large number of individuals that act according to utility, a measure of net benefit pertaining to preferences. The actions of individuals give...

Martin Ehler - University of Vienna
Selecting suitable nodes on the real line, the unit interval, and the unit sphere for integration and interpolation purposes have a long tradition in numerical mathematics. In fact, deeper studies of...

Tamás Mészáros - Freie Universität Berlin
Given a set $S$ of $v\geq 2$ symbols, and integers $k \geq t \geq 2$ and $N \geq 1$,  an $N \times k$ array $A \in S^{N \times k}$ is an $(N; t, k, v)$-covering array if all sequences in $S^t$ appear...

Jim Isenberg - University of Oregon
The Hawking-Penrose theorems tell us that solutions of Einstein’s equations are generally singular, in the sense of the incompleteness of causal geodesics (the paths of physical observers). These...