The Mathematical Postgraduate Seminar Series (MaPSS) are intended to foster a friendly atmosphere in the school of Mathematics and Statistics by giving postgratuate students an opportunity to share their work with their peers. It’s an excellent opportunity to hone presentation skills and talk about fun new topics, and most of all, it’s a great way of getting to know your fellow students, with food and drinks provided after the talks.

All maths honours students, graduate students and postdocs are encouraged to attend.

Talks are held in AGR Carslaw 829 and online via zoom at 4:00-5:00pm.

If you (or anyone you know) is interested in presenting, please fill out the expression of interest form.
For any other enquiries, please contact the MaPSS organisers: Mei Zheng.
For a record of MaPS talks in previous years please visit here.

Seminars in 2024, Semester 1

Seminars time for 2024 Semester 1 is to be announced. Refreshments are provided at the end of the talks.

Below is a list of presenters with the titles and abstracts of their presentations.

Thursday, May 23rd

Vladimir Jakovljevic (The University of Sydney) — On Poncelet Theorem

Join online via zoom.

This talk is based on two papers by Philip Griffiths and Joseph Harris from the 1970s: “A Poncelet Theorem in Space” and “On Cayley’s explicit solution to Poncelet Porism”. It demonstrates the application of the theory of genus one Riemann surfaces (elliptic curves) in the classical geometry problem known as the Poncelet Theorem.

Poncelet Theorem: Let C and D be two smooth conics generally situated in the projective plane. Then, there exists a closed polygon inscribed in C and circumscribed about D if and only if there are infinitely many such, one with a vertex at any given point in C.