These seminars will take place on Thursdays at 4pm on an (almost) weekly basis in Foster Court room 114. Talks are being given by 2nd year Mathematics PhD students for PhD students. They are generally followed by tea and biscuits in the Mathematics Department Staff Room.
3rd October 2013
1. Alexandru Cioba
Title: Pseudoholomorphic curves in symplectic and contact geometry
2. Tao Gao
Title: Two-dimensional waves beneath an elastic sheet
10th October 2013
1. Markus Jehl
Title: A parallel solver for the forward problem in Electrical Impedance Tomography
2. Bjorn Berntson
Title: Hydrodynamic systems of PDEs and the Painlevé property
3. Adam Townsend
Title: An introduction to Stokesian Dynamics
17th October 2013
1. Samuel Brown
Title: Groups as geometric objects
2. Dimitrios Chatzakos
Title: The hyperbolic lattice point problem for conjugacy classes
3. Alessandra Crisafi
Title: An introduction to Financial Mathematics and its role in Algorithmic and HF trading
24th October 2013
1. Artiom Fiodorov
Title: Complete localisation in the parabolic Anderson model
2. Stephen Muirhead
Title: Complete localisation in the parabolic Anderson model
3. Khadija Alamoudi
Title: An introduction to Nevanlinna Theory
31st October 2013
1. Luke Swift
Title: Numerical analysis and computational methods for interface multi-physics problems
3.Thomas Boiveau
Title: Numerical analysis and computational methods for interface multi-physics problems
7th November 2013
READING WEEK
14th November 2013
1. Ashley Whitfield
Title: Ghetto-induced Benjamin-Feir instability of nonlinear internal waves
2.Giancarlo Grasso
Title: Collapse and instabilities of a cylinder in a rotating fluid over a sloping bottom
3.Grego Benincasa
Title: Backlund transformations: some applications
21st November 2013
1. Huda Mohd Ramli
Title: TBA Synchronisation of Eulerian and Lagrangian models of atmospheric dispersion
28th November 2013
1. Kavinda Jayawardana
Title: Non-Euclidean bending of thin isotropic elastic membranes and plates over rigid surfaces of positive Gaussian curvature
5th December 2013
1. Jonathan Ramalheira-Tsu
Title: On the p-adic Galois cohomological invariance of the sigma-Grothendieck involution