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Postgraduate Seminars Autumn 2013

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