Mathsoc
For two years in Galway I ran a student mathematics seminar (2009-2011). I doubled the funding we received and (in my opinion) raised the standard of the talks given by graduate students.
2010/2011
17 September: "State based dynamics and flat equations" by Tobias Rossmann
24 September: "On Bachet's Weighing Problem" by Jorge Bruno
1 October: "Simple groups of functions" by Claas Roever
8 October: "Discontinuity Geometry" by Neil Humphries
15 October: "Mathematical Yoga" by Jim Cruickshank
22 October: "Lie Algebras and Nilmanifolds" by Patrick Browne
29 October: "An introduction to Ramsey Theory" by Padraig Ó Catháin
5 November: "Teaching a robot to walk" by Petri Piiroinen
12 November: "Designing Observational Studies" by Cara Dooley
19 November: "Invasion of the body switchers: yet more applications of group theory" by Jonny McLaughlin
26 November: "Tournaments that admit a unique Hamiltonian circuit" by Paul Wilson
3 December: Christmas dinner
10 December: "Mathematical modelling of drug delivery" by Vo Thi Ngoc Tuoi
17 December: "Dynamics of Regulatory and Signalling Pathways in the Cell" by Kevin Doherty
14 January: "Brion's Formula and miraculous cancellation" by Jorge Bruno
21 January: "Mathematics and Music" by Barry Hurley
28 January: "A new family of regular subgroups" by Padraig Ó Catháin
4 February: "Sperner and Tucker: Combinatorial lemmata in topology" by David Quinn
11 February: "A historical overview of vertex operator algebras" by Tom Gilroy
18 February: "Survival analysis and the economic crisis" by Alberto Alvarez Iglesias
25 February: "Modal Logic" by Emil Skoldberg
4 March: A screening of "Mad Maths II and III".
11 March: "Drakes equation and other amusements" by Patrick Browne.
25 March: "Cows and Symmetric Spaces" by Johnny Burns.
1 April: "The Big Bang" by Kevin Doherty.
8 April: "Design theory" by Anamari Nakic and Andrea Svob.
15 April: "Lattices of subgroups" by Imke Toborg.
29 April: "The cosmic censorship hypothesis" by Luoise Nolan.
6 May: "The Big Bang II" by Patrick Browne.
13 May: "Spin representations of symmetric groups" by Lukas Maas.
2009/2010
2 October: "Introduction to computational graph theory" by Marcus Bishop
14 October: "Understanding prime numbers through differentiation and quadratic functions" by Edwin O'Shea
16 October: "Much ado about nothing - a history of zero" by Neil Humphries
30 October: "Don't cry for me Argentina - forcing in set theory" by Jorge Bruno
6 November: "Stoke's Theorem" by Patrick "P" Browne
20 November: "Parallel computing" by Marcus Bishop
4 December: "Clustering in higher dimensions" by James Taylor
15 December: Christmas dinner
15 January: "Artin's conjecture" by Mark Dickinson
22 January: "As few weights to weigh them all - Bachet's problem" by Edwin O'Shea
29 January: "Quorum sensing in bacteria" by Kevin Doherty
12 February: "Bachet's problem - part II" by Edwin O'Shea
19 February: "An introduction to cyclotomy" by Padraig Ó Catháin
26 February: "Dimension in algebraic combinatorics" by David Quinn
5 March: "Artificial Intelligence" by Barry Hurley
26 March: "Inequality" by James Ward
16 April: "Realisation of weighted graphs" by Jonny McLoughlin
30 April: "Consequences of Godel" by Nick Tosh
7 May: "Survival analysis and 9/11" by Alberto Alvarez