Title: Colourful, curly haired, but not quite Bob Ross. Abstract: You all probably know the four colour theorem. If you have a map with different countries you … Read more
All Talks
03 October ~ Aniketh Pittea (Act Sci)
Note: this session is on Wednesday at 16:00! Chipperfield Extension (building on the other side of the bicycle shed, across from the KBS Sibson exit), … Read more
28 September ~ Introductory Session
In this session we (the organizers) will introduce ourselves, explain the aim of the PGR seminars and discuss the most convenient time for the seminars … Read more
18 May ~ Dimitris Michailidis “The Quillen-Suslin theorem”
In 1955 Jean-Pierre Serre, motivated from Algebraic Geometry, stated his famous conjecture, “We don’t know if there exist finitely generated projective modules over the ring … Read more
11 May ~ Jocelyne Ishak “Some topological fun”
This talk is intended to introduce the area of topology to a general audience in a fun way. We will start by defining the notion … Read more
23 March ~ José Perusquía “Construction of Random Probability Measures through the Normalisation of Completely Random Measures”
Bayesian Nonparametrics is characterised by “big” parameter spaces and the construction of probability measures on them. For the specification of these (random) probability measures there … Read more
9 March ~ Lucy Barnes “Tools for nonlinear PDE’s when numerics won’t save you”
A very brief overview of a variety of tools that can simplify certain nonlinear PDE’s, specifically equations that are difficult to solve numerically. Using conservation … Read more
19 Februrary Sibson Seminar Room 3 at 1pm ~ Raf Bocklandt (University of Amsterdam) “Local quivers and Morita theory for matrix factorizations “
We will discuss how techniques in Mirror symmetry developed by Cho, Hong and Lau can lead to a Morita theory for matrix factorizations and tie … Read more
16 February ~ Peter Spacek “Canterbury Zoo of Spaces, an overview of the main subfields of Differential Geometry”
This presentation will give a short tour through the Canterbury Zoo of Spaces, i.e. it will introduce the basics and some nice examples and applications … Read more
9 February ~ Aniketh Pittea, Alexandra Rogers and Alan Riva Palacio “Some open problems and questions”
Alex will present a problem on the invariant factors of certain types of matrices arising from diagrams. Aniketh will discuss graphical models and the controversies … Read more