Mathematics


2006

JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC


November 2006

* ICG Cosmology Seminar (Tony Padilla, Nottingham)
16.11.2006 - 16.11.2006
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* Wednesday 5: Andrew Penman will be demonstrating Quizdom
22.11.2006 - 22.11.2006
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* Café Scientifique: Time Travel - Fact or Fiction? (Professor Jim Al-Khalili, University of Surrey, Guildford)
21.11.2006 - 21.11.2006
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* ICG Cosmology Seminar (Richard Bower, Durham)
16.11.2006 - 16.11.2006
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* Public Film Screening: Pi (15)
09.11.2006 - 09.11.2006
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* Wednesday 5: Department Poster Social event.
08.11.2006 - 08.11.2006
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Student-led general lectures: Sectio Divina - The Divine Proportion

Event date: Wed, Nov 8, 2006

* Peter Randall-Page (sculptor) talks about Mathematics and Art in the Architecture of the Eden Project
08.11.2006 - 08.11.2006
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* Mathematics in Music: maths undergraduates poster competition
08.11.2006 - 08.11.2006
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* Public Film Screening: Proof (12A)
07.11.2006 - 07.11.2006
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* Hundreds of primary school children to take part in Mathematics Masterclasses
07.11.2006 - 09.11.2006
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* Taster Lecture in Mathematics for Sixth Form Students (Prof. Andrew Osbaldestin)
06.11.2006 - 10.11.2006
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* Mathematics Masterclasses for Secondary School Pupils
06.11.2006 - 10.11.2006
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* Public exhibition of mathematical artwork
06.11.2006 - 10.11.2006
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* ICG Cosmology Seminar (Karim Malik, Lancaster)
02.11.2006 - 02.11.2006
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* Wednesday 5: Timothy Collinson (our new Faculty librarian) will talk about the library and its facilities
01.11.2006 - 01.11.2006
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October 2006

* ICG Cosmology Seminar (Amedeo Balbi, Rome, Italy)
26.10.2006 - 26.10.2006
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* Café Scientifique: Sleep (Neil Stanley, The British Sleep Society)
24.10.2006 - 24.10.2006
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* A new test of gravity using gravitational lensing (Robert Caldwell, Dartmouth, USA)
19.10.2006 - 19.10.2006
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* Seminar: UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey: Data Releases and first results (Sebastien Foucaud)
12.10.2006 - 12.10.2006
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* Generalized modified gravity models (Antonio de Felice, University of Sussex)
05.10.2006 - 05.10.2006
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September 2006

* Café Scientifique: Can we find the mind gene? (Prof. Ajit Narayanan, University of Portsmouth)
19.09.2006 - 19.09.2006
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* Brane World Gravity: Progress and Problems (ICG Workshop)
18.09.2006 - 29.09.2006
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July 2006

* ICG Public Lecture: Professor Jim Gunn talks about the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
20.07.2006 - 20.07.2006
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* Café Scientifique: Maths in the Weirdest Places (Dr. Paul Stevenson, University of Surrey)
18.07.2006 - 18.07.2006
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* The invisible hand of chaos in the formation and destabilization of Kuiper-belt binaries (David Farrelly, University of Utah, Logan, USA)
13.07.2006 - 13.07.2006
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June 2006

* Café Scientifique: Who’s Afraid of Conscious Machines? (Professor Igor Aleksander, Imperial College)
20.06.2006 - 20.06.2006
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* Feedback in star and galaxy formation (Joe Silk, University of Oxford)
15.06.2006 - 15.06.2006
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* The ESO Distant Cluster Survey (Steven Bamford, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth)
01.06.2006 - 01.06.2006
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May 2006

* LOFAR: the next generation radio telescope here today (Rob Fender, Southampton)
25.05.2006 - 25.05.2006
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* Café Scientifique: Where is the Universe? (Professor Bob Nichol, University of Portsmouth)
23.05.2006 - 23.05.2006
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* Cosmological model selection (Andrew Liddle, Sussex)
18.05.2006 - 18.05.2006
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* Chicken legs and rabbit heads: What do our students learn from what we teach? (Sue Sanders, FIMA, Senior Lecturer, Swansea University)
16.05.2006 - 16.05.2006
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* Some computational challenges in the dynamics of transition state theory (Dr. Andrew Burbanks, Department of Mathematics, University of Portsmouth)
15.05.2006 - 15.05.2006
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* 9 billion years of gravity at work in the cosmic factory (Christian Marinoni, Centre de Physique Theorique, Marseille)
11.05.2006 - 11.05.2006
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* MapleTA: Warts and ALL (Michael McCabe, Department of Mathematics, University of Portsmouth)
10.05.2006 - 10.05.2006
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* Quantitative Finance: GARCH models for the calculation of Minimum Capital Risk Requirements (Christos Floros, Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth)
08.05.2006 - 08.05.2006
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* Low power in the CMB power spectrum: an imprint of non-trivial topology? (Anastasia Niarchou, Imperial)
04.05.2006 - 04.05.2006
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* Understanding regular patterns in physical systems (Dr. Anne Skeldon, Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey)
03.05.2006 - 03.05.2006
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April 2006

* Black hole accretion in the context of structure formation (Sebastian Jester, Southampton)
27.04.2006 - 27.04.2006
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* What's new in WebCT? (Sue Sayce, University of Portsmouth)
26.04.2006 - 26.04.2006
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* Café Scientifique: Brunel's 21st Century Big Picture Show (Paul Jowitt, Scottish Institute of Sustainable Technology)
25.04.2006 - 25.04.2006
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* Fluid mechanics and elasticity in human eyes (Professor Alistair Fitt, Department of Mathematics, University of Southampton)
24.04.2006 - 24.04.2006
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* MapleTA: Warts and ALL (Michael McCabe, Department of Mathematics, University of Portsmouth)
05.04.2006 - 05.04.2006
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* Different aspects of induced gravity brane-world scenario (Mariam Bouhmadi Lopez, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation)
04.04.2006 - 04.04.2006
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* Challenges in understanding our Universe (Dr. Robert Crittenden, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG), University of Portsmouth)
03.04.2006 - 03.04.2006
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March 2006

* Dark Energy and the Rest of the World, by Carsten van den Bruck (Sheffield)
30.03.2006 - 30.03.2006
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* In silico modelling of a protein structure in three dimensions: the DNA methyltransferase M.EcoR124I (Dr. Keith Firman and Alex Blundell, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth)
29.03.2006 - 29.03.2006
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* Modelling of river channel changes (Prof. Janet Hooke, Dept. of Geography, University of Portsmouth)
27.03.2006 - 27.03.2006
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* The QUEST for CMB polarization, by Walter Gear (Cardiff University)
23.03.2006 - 23.03.2006
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* Spreadsheet simulation and trial and error methods in statistics (Dr. Michael Wood, Dept. of Strategy and Business Systems, University of Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth)
20.03.2006 - 20.03.2006
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* The mass spectrum of PBHs at the end of inflation, by Ignacio Zaballa (Lancaster)
16.03.2006 - 16.03.2006
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* Complexity management in fuzzy systems (Dr. Alexander Gegov, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth)
15.03.2006 - 15.03.2006
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* Notational Analysis and Computer Modelling in Sport (Colin White, Dept. of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth)
13.03.2006 - 13.03.2006
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* Mirroring and Distributing a Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Repository, by Helen Xiang (Distributed Systems Group, Portsmouth)
10.03.2006 - 10.03.2006
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* Neutrino masses from cosmological probes, by Ofer Lahav (UCL)
09.03.2006 - 09.03.2006
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* Learning Journals and Reflective Thinking (Dr. George Allan, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth)
08.03.2006 - 08.03.2006
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* Is this the best of all possible worlds? (Professor David Matravers, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG), University of Portsmouth)
06.03.2006 - 06.03.2006
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* High performance computing on COSMOS, by Victor Travieso (Cambridge)
03.03.2006 - 03.03.2006
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* Random Matrices and the Riemann Zeta Function (Professor Jon Keating, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol)
02.03.2006 - 02.03.2006
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* Maths/MDE Forum
01.03.2006 - 01.03.2006
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February 2006

* Modeling molecules using local surface properties and motion (Prof. Martyn Ford, Centre for Molecular Design, IBBS, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Portsmouth)
27.02.2006 - 27.02.2006
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* Braneworlds with non-Riemannian bulks, by Israel Quiros Rodriguez (Central University of Las Villas, Cuba)
23.02.2006 - 23.02.2006
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* Measuring free-air and surface temperature trends over the 20th Century: a comparison of datasets in mountainous regions (Dr. Nicholas Pepin, Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Portsmouth)
20.02.2006 - 20.02.2006
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* Randall-Sundrum in IIB: the choice of warp factor versus supersymmetry, by Kelly Stelle (Imperial)
16.02.2006 - 16.02.2006
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* Wavelet Regression: Properties of wavelet smoothing matrix (Dr. Kostas Konstantinou, Imperial College, London)
13.02.2006 - 13.02.2006
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* Simulating Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations for PLANCK by Bjoern Schaefer (ICG, Portsmouth)
09.02.2006 - 09.02.2006
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* Is the Universe Out of Tune? (Glenn Starkman, Case Western Reserve University)
02.02.2006 - 02.02.2006
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January 2006

* Conserved non-linear quantities in cosmology (Filippo Vernizzi, Helsinki)
26.01.2006 - 26.01.2006
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* Precision Dark Energy (Dragan Huterer, University of Chicago)
19.01.2006 - 19.01.2006
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