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