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The School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences produces a regular program of colloquia, talks and seminars hosted by a variety of speakers from both industry and academia.
The MAPS School Colloquia are given by recognized experts in the domains representing the fields of research in Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics (quantum and photonics), and Statistics. The speakers deliver general research talks that are accessible and engaging for an audience consisting of diverse scientific backgrounds, and spend the day discussing science and academic careers with our students and staff.
Attendance is currently available as mixed-mode format (not all sessions are recorded).
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2022 series
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title, abstract and recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 14 December 4:00pm-5:00pm | Professor Bob Coecke | Chief Scientist, Quantinuum | From Quantum in Pictures to Quantum AI Abstract Zoom recording |
| Monday, 24 October 11:00am-12noon | Professor Andrew Francis | Western Sydney University | Sandwiches, eggs, and trees: phylogenetic trees and partitions of finite sets Abstract Zoom recording |
Friday, 09 September 10:00am-11:00am | Professor Kate Smith-Miles | University of Melbourne |
Stress-testing algorithms via Instance Space Analysis
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Monday, 29 August 12noon-1pm | Professor Dianne Cook | Monash University | Myth busting and apophenia in data visualisation: Is what you see really there? |
2021 series
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title, abstract and recording |
|---|---|---|---|
Friday, 5 November 2021 3-4pm | Assoc. Professor Joan Licata | Australian National University | A Bit of Alchemy *No recording |
Friday, 29 October 2021 3-4pm | Professor Geordie Williamson | The University of Sydney | Functions and sheaves |
Thursday, 21 October 2021 4-5pm | Assoc. Professor Yuta Koike | University of Tokyo | Gaussian approximation for high-dimensional data: Recent progress *No recording |
Friday, 15 October 2021 3-4pm | Dr Andreas Buttenschoen | The University of British Columbia | Spatio-temporal heterogenities in a mechano-chemical model of collective cell migration |
Friday, 8 October 2021 3-4pm | Dr Yaping Yang | University of Melbourne | A bridge between stable homotopy theory and representation theory |
Friday, 1 October 2021 3-4pm | Professor Nalini Joshi | University of Sydney | Motion and monodromy |
| 17 - 24 September 2021 | Mid-Session Break | ||
Friday, 10 September 2021 3-4pm | Professor Daniel Spector | National Taiwan Normal University | Maxwell's equations |
Friday, 3 September 2021 3-4pm | Dr Guo Deng | Macquarie University | Recursive behaviour and route to thermalization in diatomic FPUT lattice *No recording |
Friday, 27 3-4pm | Dr Linh Nghiem | Australian National University | Screening methods for linear errors-in-variables models in high dimensions *No recording |
Friday, 20 3-4pm | Dr Rachael Quill | Weatherzone | Wind energy forecasting in an operational context: traversing research and industry *No recording |
Friday, 13 3-4pm | Dr Pavel Krivitsky | UNSW | Representativeness and Generalisability of Inference for Statistical Models for Samples of Networks *No recording |
Friday, 6 3-4pm | Dr Susanne Horn | Coventry University | Multimodal rotating magnetoconvection in liquid metals |
Friday, 30 12-1pm | Dr Patricia Menendez | Monash University | Far and Close: Selective Sample Enrichment to Deal with Multicollinearity in Geographically Weighted Regression |
| 7 June - 23 July 2021 | End of Session Break | ||
Friday, 4 3-4pm | Assoc. Professor Berwin Turlach | University of Western Australia | On bivariate extreme value copulas with polynomial dependence functions *No recording |
Friday, 28 3-4pm | Assoc. Professor James Hanna | University of Nevada | Pseudomomentum: a pseudocolloquium *No recording |
Friday, 21 4-5pm | Professor Yuliya Mishura | Kyiv National University | Functional limit theorems for financial markets with long-range dependence |
Friday, 14 4-5pm | Dr Kirsty Wan | University of Exeter | Patterns of motility in single-celled organisms *No recording |
Friday, 7 3-4pm | Pantea Pooladvand | University of Sydney | How do viruses move? Modelling diffusion of oncolytic virus in collagen-dense tumours |
Friday, 30 9-10am | Dr Yu Guang Wang | Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany | How framelets enhance graph neural networks *No recording |
Friday, 23 3-4pm | Dr Judy-anne Osborn | University of Newcastle | From Experimental Maths to Indigenising Curriculum |
| 2-16 April 2021 | Session Break | ||
Wednesday, 31 10-11am | Assistant Professor Martina Rovelli | University of Massachusetts | Higher categories: what are they? |
Friday, 26 3-4pm | Assoc. Professor Jiancang Zhuang | The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Japan | Estimation, diagnostics, and extensions of nonparametric Hawkes processes |
Friday, 19 3-4pm | Dr Hien Nguyen | La Trobe University | Order selection with confidence for mixture models |
Thursday, 11 10-11am | Professor J. Douglas Wright | Drexel University | Random FPUT Lattices |
Friday, 5 3-4pm | Professor Masahito Hasegawa | Kyoto University | Traced monoidal categories and semantics of computation |
Friday, 26 3-4pm | Dr Alice Devillers | The University of Western Australia | Combinatorial designs and symmetry |
2020 series
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title, abstract and recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, 11 September 2020 | Professor Aurore Delaigle | University of Melbourne | Estimating a Covariance Function from Fragments of Functional Data |
| Friday, 4 September 2020 | A/Professor Milena Radnovic | University of Sydney | Poncelet porisms and billiardsBetter ecological decisions through mathematics |
| Friday, 28 August 2020 | Professor Rob J Hyndman | Monash University | The geometry of forecast reconciliation |
| Friday, 21 August 2020 | Professor Yvonne Stokes | University of Adelaide | Inertial particle focusing in curved microfluidic ducts |
| Friday, 14 August 2020 | A/Professor Mike Meylan | University of Newcastle | Introduction to Hydroelasticity |
| Friday, 7 August 2020 | Professor Matt Wand | University of Technology Sydney | Streamlined variational inference for random-effects models |
| Friday, 31 July 2020 | Professor Annabelle McIver | Macquarie University, Department of Computer Science | The Category of Correlations |
| Friday, 5 June 2020 | Dr Lewis Mitchell | University of Adelaide | Social media analysis and COVID-19 |
| Friday, 29 May 2020 | Dr Kate Helmstedt | QUT | Better ecological decisions through mathematics |
| Friday, 22 May 2020 | Associate Professor John Nichols | Texas A&M University | The use of Fast Fourier Transforms and Generalized Poissonian Distribution to study COVID Deaths |
| Friday, 8 May 2020 | Associate Professor Mali Abdolloahian | RMIT | Application of statistical Quality control in clinical area |
| Friday, 1 May 2020 | Associate Professor Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux | UNSW | Depth for Curve Data and Applications |
| Friday, 24 Apr 2020 | Dr Anna Romanov | University of Sydney | A tour via examples of Beilinson—Bernstein localization |
| Friday, 17 Apr 2020 | Dr Houying Zhu | Macquarie University | Quasi‐Monte Carlo sampling method |
| Friday, 13 Mar 2020 | Dr Christian Thomas | Macquarie University | The effect of deformations on the flow over a ringwing |
| Friday, 6 Mar 2020 | Robyn Stuart | University of Copenhagen | Evaluating the health outcomes of HIV interventions: a mathematical model to combine the science and economics of HIV |
| Thursday, 27 Feb 2020 | Christina Vasilakopoulou | University of Patras | Wiring Diagrams, a categorical formalism for systems modeling |
2023 series
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title, abstract and recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, 30 May 11:00am-12:00pm | Professore Catherine Greenhill | Univesrity of New South Wales | Generating random networks with useful properties Abstract Zoom recording |
| Monday, 15 May 2:00pm-3:00pm | Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen | Queensland University of Technology | Dealing with Sensitive Data Abstract Zoom recording |
2024 Series
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title, abstract and recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 14 11:00am - 12:00pm | Associate Professor Jessica Kasza | Monash University | The future of flexible and efficient longitudinal cluster randomised trials Abstract |
| Wednesday, May 22 11:00am - 12:00pm | Professor Stefan Maier | In a tight spot: what to do with light in small spaces Abstract | |
| Monday, July 8 2:00 - 3:00pm | Associate Professor Tanya Garcia | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | The Missing Link: Establishing the Parallels Between Censored Covariate and Missing Data Abstract |
| Friday, July 26 12:00 - 1:00pm | Associate Professor Jelmer Renema | Integrated Photonic Quantum Information Processing Abstract | |
| Friday, August 23 2:00-3:00pm | Professor Geordie Williamson | The University of Sydney | Can AI help with hard mathematics? Abstract |
Thursday, November 7 12:00-1:00pm | A/Prof. Paul Abbott | University of Western Australia | Using Generative AI for Computation Abstract |