Seminars
The School of Mathematics and Statistics runs many seminars series
including the
- Applied Mathematics Seminars at Mawson Lakes
- Distinguished Lecturer series
- City West Statistics Seminars
- Postgraduate Students' Seminar
Applied Mathematics Seminars at Mawson Lakes
Applied mathematics seminars are at our Mawson Lakes campus. Refreshments are provided and all staff are welcome.
2008
| Date | Speaker | Title | Location & Time |
| Tuesday, 23rd September 2008 | Professor Nigel Burroughs | Systems biology: the
challenge of extracting information from high dimensional data Abstract |
Q1-01 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |
| Friday, 19th September 2008 | Dr Jacek Krawczyk and Oana-Silvia Serea | A viability theory approach
to a two-stage optimal control problem of technology adoption Abstract |
Q1-01 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm |
| Tuesday, 9th September 2008 | Professor Gustav Feichtinger | Optimal control of 'deviant' behaviour | Q1-01 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |
| Friday, 22nd August 2008 | Professor Zbigniew Michalewicz | Puzzle-based learning Abstract |
Q1-01 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm |
Distinguished Lecturer Series
2008
| Date | Speaker | Title | Location & Time |
| Friday 26th September 2008 | Professor Harold Kushner | Stochastic Approximation and the
Analysis of Proportional Fair-Sharing Algorithms in
Communications Theory. Abstract |
Q1-01,Mawson Lakes 14:00 to 15:00 |
| Thursday, 2nd October 2008 | Professor Harold Kushner | Numerical methods for
optimal controls for nonlinear stochastic systems with delays Abstract |
Q1-01 10:00am to 11:00am |
2007
| Date | Speaker | Title | Location & Time |
| Monday, 12th November 2007 | Dr Boris M Miller | The concept of the Impulse Control and discontinuous solutions of the optimal control problems |
Q1-01 12:00 pm to 1:00pm |
| Tuesday, 23rd October 2007 | Dr Gary Froyland | Transfer Operators, Coherent Structures and Ocean Circulation |
Q1-01 12:30 pm to 1:30pm |
| Friday, 21st September 2007 | Professor Dr Gerd Schmalz | Forelli’s theorem and an application in CR geometry |
Q1-01 12:00 pm to 1:00pm |
| Friday, 10th August 2007 | Professor Shmuel Friedland | The Role of Singular Value Decomposition in Data Analysis |
Q1-01 12:00 pm to 1:00pm |
| Friday, 3rd August 2007 | Dr Tom M.L. Wigley | MAGICC/SCENGEN: User-friendly software for climate scenario development and assessment of uncertainties |
Q1-01 12:00 pm to 1:00pm |
| Monday, 21st May 2007 | Joydeep Dutta | Measure of risk in finance |
Q1-01 12.10 pm - 1.10 pm |
| Friday, 11th May 2007 | Prof Andrej Cherkaev | New bounds for multiphase conducting composites |
Q1-01 12.10 pm - 1.10 pm |
| Friday, 27th April 2007 | Dr Bruce Craven | Well-posed optimal control, with economic applications |
Q1-01 12.10 pm - 1.10 pm |
If you would like to be included on the mathematics seminar list and be advised of upcoming events, please email Pamela Phillips at pamela.phillips@unisa.edu.au
City West Statistics seminars
Statistical seminars are held at our City West campus. Refreshments are provided and all staff are welcome.
2008
| Date | Speaker | Title | Location & Time |
| Friday 22nd August | Dr Cam Rungie and Thao Tran | Youden Square for Best-Worst Choice Set | GK5-24 3:30pm |
| Friday 27th June, 2008 | Professor Dominique Haughton | Multilevel models and small area estimation in the context of Vietnam living standards surveys | GK5-24 3:30pm |
| Friday 6th June, 2008 | Dr Dirk Kroese | Modern Monte Carlo Methods with Applications to Biological Systems | BH4-23 3:30pm |
| Friday 23rd May, 2008 | Dr Ming-Lu Wu | Consumer Satisfaction Measurement by Structural Equation Modeling | GK2-15 3:30pm |
| Tuesday 6th May, 2008 | Dr W.P. Malcolm | The Curious Problem of Mean-Annual-Return Estimation | BH4-29 3:30pm |
| Thursday 24th April, 2008 | Professor Gemai Chen | Reconstructing Drought History and Predicting Future Droughts | BH3-21 3:30pm |
| Friday 14th March, 2008 | Professor Jiahua Chen | Extended Bayesian Information Criteria for Model Selection with Large Model Spaces | BH4-30 1:30pm |
2007
| Date | Speaker | Title | Location & Time |
| Friday 26th October, 2007 | Dr Cam Rungie | Bivariate Beta Binomial
Distribution Abstract |
H6-03 (Hawke Bldg) 3.30pm |
| Friday 12th October, 2007 | Dr Zen Lu | Finite mixture of binary logistic
regression analysis on labour supply of mothers with disabled
children Abstract |
GK2-16 3:30pm |
| Friday, 28th September, 2007 | Dr Chris Brien | The design and analysis of experiments with a laboratory phase subsequent to an initial phase |
GK2-16 3:30pm |
| Friday, 14th September, 2007 | Susan Wonsun Kim | Identification of Important Docking Parameters, Exemplified for Calpain Inhibitors, with Cluster Analysis |
GK2-16 3:30pm |
| Friday, 14th September, 2007 | Joanne Thandrayen | Mixture models into capture-recapture methods |
GK2-16 3:30pm |
| Monday, 20th August, 2007 | Dr Paul Yip | A Chain Binomial Model to Estimate the Fatality Rate of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) |
GK5-19 3:30pm |
| Friday, 30th March 2007 | Dr John van der Hoek | A new paradigm for asset pricing Abstract |
GK2-13 3.30 pm - 5 pm |
If you would like to be included on the Statistics seminar list and be advised of upcoming events please email Anja van Vliet at Anja.vanVliet@unisa.edu.au
Postgraduate Students' Seminar
An informal seminar series for the School's postgraduate students, co-ordinated by Dr Jorge Aarao.