Seminars
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Past Seminars
- Past Discussion Groups
Tuesday Seminars
The regular seminar in Mathematics is held on Tuesdays at 14.30 in the Maths Lecture Theatre.
The list of speakers for this term is as follows:-
Spring 2010
19 January |
Matthias Langer (University of Strathclyde) |
26 January |
Karel Casteels (Vancouver) |
2 February |
Pavlos Xenitidis (Leeds) |
9 February |
Samir Siksek (Warwick) |
16 February |
Marco Marletta (Cardiff) |
23 February |
Laurent Rigal (Paris 13) |
2 March |
Mike Keane (Wesleyan College Connecticut / Leiden) |
9 March |
Jacques Alev (Reims) |
16 March |
David Berman (Queen Mary)
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23 March |
Nikolay Gromov (London) |
30 March |
Hayder Salman (East Anglia) |
Extra-seminar - 3.00pm in McVittie |
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Wednesday 31 March |
Kaori Nagatou (Kyushu University /JST) and Yoshitaka Watanabe (Kyushu University) |
For further details, contact Stéphane Launois.
You may also be interested in the Physics seminars at Kent.
Friday Seminars
Additional seminars in Mathematics are held on Fridays at 15.00 in the Maths Lecture Theatre.
The list of speakers for this term is as follows:-
Spring 2010
Friday 15 January |
Carl Bender (Washington University in St. Louis) |
22 January |
Andy Hone (Kent) |
29 January |
Jim Shank (Kent) |
5 February |
Clare Dunning (Kent) |
12 February |
Jing Ping Wang (Kent) |
19 February |
Kent-Porto Day Christian Lomp (Porto) Samuel Lopes (Porto) |
26 February |
Mohammed Hawas (Kent) |
5 March |
Peter Clarkson (Kent) |
12 March |
Markus Rosenkranz (Kent) |
19 March |
Peter Fleischmann (Kent) |
2 April |
No seminar |
9 April |
No seminar |
For further details, contact Stéphane Launois.
You may also be interested in the Physics seminars at Kent.
Mathematical Physics
Mathematical Physics
We meet on Wednesday 11.00 to 12.00 in the McVittie Library.
Clare Dunning, Andy Hone and Steffen Krusch will talk about selected topics in Mathematical Physics.
Contact Steffen Krusch if you would like to be on the mailing list.
Statistics
Seminars start at 2 pm and are held in the Mathematics Lecture Theatre in the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (IMSAS) unless otherwise stated. Tea will be available afterwards. All are welcome.
Spring 2010
4 February |
Professor Alastair Young (Imperial College London) |
11 February |
RSS East Kent Local Group meeting (at UKC) Professor John Kent (Leeds) |
25 February |
Dr Robert Gramacy (Cambridge) |
4 March |
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18 March |
Professor Peter Jupp (St Andrews) |
25 March |
Professor Jonathan Forster (Southampton) |
8 April |
Dr Efang Kong (Kent) |
For further details, contact Dr Xue Wang
You may also be interested in other seminar series at the University of Kent: CBMI Biosciences and Economics
Past Seminars
Past Discussion Groups
Applied Discussion Group
This term, the applied discussion group will be led by Jing Ping Wang and will take place on Monday, 11.00-12.00, in the McVittie Library.
The applied discussion is on algbraic and geometric structures of integrability. We begin with the construction of a complex of variational calculus based on a differential ring, then give definitions of Hamiltonian, symplectic and Nijenhuis operators and further discuss the properties of these operators and applications to nonlinear integrable evolution equations.
Pure Discussion Group
The Pure Maths Discussion group meets on Wednesdays at 13.00 in the McVittie Library for one hour.
The topic for the Pure Maths Discussion Group for Autumn 2008 will be
Derived Categories.
Derived categories are an aspect of homological algebra and have become an important tool in representation theory and algebraic geometry. Chapter 10 of C.A. Weibel's "An introduction to homological algebra" will be the starting point for our discussion. Gelfand and Manin's "Methods of Homological Algebra" is another key reference and Richard Thomas's "Derived Categories for the working mathematician" (arXiv:math/0001045v2) claims to be aimed at both physicists and mathematicians.
Geometry and Physics
Differential Geometry and Physics
We meet on Wednesday 11.00 to 12.00 in the McVittie Library.
Clare Dunning, Andy Hone and Steffen Krusch will talk about selected topics in Differential Geometry and applications to Physics. We'll introduce some concepts from Topology and also address various topics in Quantum Physics.
Contact Steffen Krusch if you would like to be on the mailing list
Variational Methods
This discussion group led by Elizabeth Mansfield on "Variational methods"
will take place on Friday, 11.00-12.00, in the McVittie Library.
We will be discussing
1) revision of finding Euler-Lagrange equations and Noether's Theorem,
2) formulae for finding conservation laws, smooth and discrete cases,
3) the variational complex,
4) Poincaré Lemma.
Then Tania Goncalves will talk on the discrete Poincaré Lemma. This will be followed by Andrew Wheeler talking either on the Lie group Sp(2n) or global variational problems, ending with Jun Zhao talking on mathematics of image processing: this will be moments of functions, convolutions and group actions thereon.
Contact Liz Mansfield if you would like to be on the mailing list