Colloquia Schedule
Thursdays, 4pm to 5pm - Cotton Club (CO350) Tea at 3:30pmThe School of Mathematics and Statistics (SMS) at Victoria University of Wellington organizes a “Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium”. The colloquium is intended to create a link between the members of the SMS. The talks are focused mainly but not limited to the following research areas: discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, logic, analysis, geometry, number theory, applied mathematics, theoretical physics, numerical analysis, mathematical modelling, actuarial science, financial mathematics, Bayesian statistics, categorical data, probability theory and stochastic processes, statistical modelling, estimation and testing.
Next event
5-8 December 2016 New Zealand Mathematical Society Colloquium Run by the New Zealand Mathematical Society The 2016 Colloquium will be hosted by Victoria University of Wellington, (Kelburn campus) from Monday 5 December to Thursday 8 December. Thursday will be dedicated to Mathematics Education and may be registered for separately from the remainder of the colloquium. There will be a reception for attendees on the evening of Sunday 4 December 2016. The annual Colloquium brings together the mathematical community of New Zealand while welcoming overseas visitors to join us. Time will be dedicated to the discussion of all aspects of pure and applied mathematics and statistics. Talks will be given by internationally recognised leaders in the field and also by emerging researchers and postgraduate students.
6 December 2016 Quasars, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves In 1963 it was realised that certain radio "stars" were enormously powerful objects in far distant galaxies, but the mechanism that drove them was a mystery. Serendipitously, I discovered the unique solution for rotating black holes at this time and it was fairly quickly realised that the accretion disc around one of these could supply the necessary energy. Since then we have observed such supermassive black holes at the centre of most large galaxies. The most energetic objects in the universe are GRBs (Gamma Ray Bursters). These are generally considered to be hypernova from a very massive rotating star collapsing to a Black hole. However another theory is that they are caused by mergers of massive neutron stars or black holes. In the last year Ligo has observed mergers of three pairs of rotating black holes, each 10-40 solar masses. The gravitational waves from these have been compared to templates calculated by a mixture of numerical and analytic solutions of Einstein's equations for such events. What: The Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) lecture from Emeritus Professor Roy Kerr When: 5.30pm, Tuesday 6 December Where: Lecture Theatre 1, Rutherford House, 23 Lambton Quay, Wellington RSVP: Email Kelsey Firmin at kelsey.firmin@vuw.ac.nz or phone 04-463 5651
Schedule
THU 21 Jul | Andrew C. Fowler, University of Oxford and University of Limerick Predicting the unpredictable: drumlins, exploding rocks, worms, landslides |
THU 11 Aug | Dimitrios Mitsotakis, Victoria University of Wellington Nonlinear and dispersive wave equations with applications |
THU 18 Aug | George Barmpalias, Victoria University of Wellington] Minority population in one-dimensional Schelling model of segregation |
THU 15 Sep | Peter Smith, Victoria University of Wellington Random Electromagnetic Rays: Models, Design and Analysis |
THU 29 Sep | Lisa Clark, University of Otago Two abstract supermodels: groupoids and Steinberg algebras |
THU 13 Oct | David Balduzzi, Victoria University of Wellington Strongly-Typed Games |