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University of Sydney Applied Mathematics Seminar

The Applied Mathematics Seminar will be held on Wednesdays 14:05-14:55 in Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre.

Schedule of Talks

Semester 1


Wednesday Mar 4 John Roberts Universal Period Distribution for Reversible Rational Maps over Finite Fields
Wednesday Mar 11 David Liley/ Federico Frascoli Bifurcations and State Changes in the Human Alpha Rhythm
Wednesday Mar 18 William Phillips Impulsively Generated Drops
Wednesday Mar 25 Bill Gibson Modelling the Missing Half of the Brain
Wednesday Apr 1 Martin Wechselberger Bursts and Canards in a Pituitary Lactotroph Model
Wednesday Apr 8 Rod Halburd Movable Algebraic Singularities of Solutions of ODEs
Wednesday Apr 22 Graeme Pettet Modelling the human skin equivalent constructt
Wednesday Apr 29 Daniel Daners An isoperimetric inequality for the elastically supported membrane
Wednesday May 6 Florica Cirstea On classification of isolated singularities of solutions associated with the Hardy--Sobolev operator
Wednesday May 13 Holger Dullin Vanishing twist near resonant Hamiltonian equilibria
Wednesday May 27 Rainer Hollerbach Magnetorotational Instabilities in Cylindrical Taylor-Couette Flow
Wednesday Jun 3 Tegan Morrison Asymptotics of Higher-Order Painlevé Equations



Semester 2


Wednesday Jul 29 James Meiss Generating Volume Preserving Maps
Wednesday Aug 5 Holger Dullin Chaotic dynamics of the triple pendulum
Wednesday Aug 12 Gary Froyland Identification and tracking of coherent features in oceanic and atmospheric flows
Wednesday Aug 19 Ken Siu A PDE Approach for Risk Measures for Derivatives With Regime Switching
Wednesday Aug 26 Christian-Oliver Ewald A Stochastic Differential Fishery Game for a Two Species Fish Population with Ecological Interaction
Thursday Aug 27 Peter Clarkson Rational Solutions of Soliton Equations and  Applications to Vortex Dynamics
Thursday Aug 27 Liz Mansfield Moving Frames and Noether's Theorem (at 3pm)
Wednesday Sep 2 Sasha Pushnitski A new identity in scattering theory in Hamiltonian mechanics
Wednesday Sep 9 Suryah Singh Going in Circles: Steering in Terrain from Robots to Animals and Back-again
Wednesday Sep 16 Mary Myerscough Decision-making by ants, bees and brains
Wednesday Sep 23 no seminar instead: Terence Tao via Grid
Wednesday Oct 7 Leon Poladian Wave equations with eigenvalue-dependent boundary conditions (and why they come up in modern optical fibre design)
Wednesday Oct 14 John Sader The Mechanics of Nanoscale Devices
Wednesday Oct 21 Reinout Quispel Geometric Numerical Integration of Differential Equations
Wednesday Oct 28