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MUMS holds seminars throughout the year on a wide variety of topics that are mathematically related. Past seminars have covered such topics as chaos theory, Fermat's Last Theorem, coding theory, and performance of algorithms. They are aimed at a general mathematical audience, and do not require any specific background.
Below is a list of previous seminars presented. Some are also linked to pages with further information concerning that seminar.
Seminars for 2013
- 31 May: Tony Guttmann - "Random and Self-Avoiding Walks in a Rectangular Domain"
- 10 May: Federico Frascoli - "The mathematical brain: how can we model brain activity using maths?"
- 9 May: Kristijan Jovanoski - "This is madness: the lives of famous mathematicians - History of Maths III"
- 3 May: Peter Taylor - "Queueing theory and 'ideal hospital occupancy'"
- 2 May: Jinghan Xia - "A tale of three little triangles and the big bad postulate - History of Maths II"
- 26 April: Henry Segerman - "Fractal curves, 4-dimesional puzzles and unlikely gears"
- 19 April: Richard Huggins - "Beyond the birthday problem"
- 18 April: Dougal Davis - "Algebraic geometry: from Ancient Greece to Riemann - History of Maths I"
- 12 April: Jan De Gier - "Polynomial roots, dragons and feathers"
- 22 March: Matthew Mack - "Music: two mathematical bases"
- 8 March: Motohico Mulase - "From Catalan numbers to the frontier of mathematical research"
Seminars for 2012
- 26 October: Hyam Rubinstein - "Solution of the Poincaré conjecture"
- 19 October: Mark Fackrell - "The single server queue"
- 5 October: Sanming Zhou - "Distance labellings of graphs"
- 14 Septemeber: Richard Brak - "An unexpectedly complicated way to compute factorials"
- 7 September: Alex Ghitza - "Transcendence and irrationality"
- 31 August: Craig Westerland - "The cobordism story"
- 24 August: Dougal Davis - "A (very) short history of geometry"
- 17 August: Lawrence Reeves - "The group theory of Rubik's cube"
- 10 August: Aihua Xia - "Uncorrelation and independence"
- 3 August: Arun Ram - "Flags, cohomology and positivity"
- 27 July: Han Liang Gan - "Paradoxical musings"
- 25 May: Paul Norbury - "Mathematics of string theory"
- 11 May: Jan De Gier - "Self-avoiding bees and discrete complex analysis"
- 20 April: Norman Do - "Constant curiosity"
- 30 March: Tony Guttmann - "Self avoiding walks"
- 23 March: Trithang Tran, Han Liang Gan and Jason Nassios - "PhD talks"
- 16 March: Emily Hackett-Jones - "Mathematics and ecology"
- 9 March: Henry Segerman - "Some mathematical sculptures"
- 2 March: Ian Gordon - "Rubbish"
Seminars for 2011
- 28 October: Alex Ghitza - "30 years of LLL"
- 21 October: Marieke Quant - "A tour in game theory"
- 14 October: David Wood - "What do African rhythms and the Hebrew calendar have in common?"
- 7 October: Peter Forrester - "Random Matrices"
- 16 September: Kerry-Anne Landman - "Maths in Biology"
- 9 September: Heng-Soon Gan - "An Introduction to LP/IP/MILP Modelling"
- 2 September: Hyam Rubenstein - "The Steiner Saga"
- 19 August: Lawrence Reeves - "Solving a quintic by radicals. Or not."
- 12 August: Peter Taylor - "Parrondo's games"
- 5 August: Norman Do - "Variations on Vertices and Vortices"
- 29 July: Arun Ram - "Reverse Mathematics"
- 8 April: Richard Brak - "The Catalan Family and Embedded Bijections"
- 1 April: Anthony Mays - "(Some) Mathematics of Juggling"
- 25 March: Kostya Borovkov - "The Princess and Monster Game & Choosing Points at Random"
- 18 March: Sanming Zhou - "How Symmetrical is Your Graph?"
- 11 March: Trithang Tran - "Hex & the Brouwer fixed-point theorem"
- 4 March: Han Liang Gan - "Maximum Hangover"
Seminars for 2010
- 15 October: Norman Do - "Dominoes, dimers and determinants"
- 8 October: Nathan Clisby - "On Hales' proof of the Kepler conjecture"
- 17 September: John Groves - "The spine of an amoeba and other tropical curiosities"
- 10 September: Antoinette Tordesillas - "The wonderment of the finger and D'Alembert's dream"
- 3 September: Henry Segerman - "The Mathematics of Juggling"
- 27 August: Hyam Rubenstein - ""Algorithms to recognise knots, links and 3-dimensional spaces"
- 20 August: Arun Ram - "Symmetry and identities"
- 13 August: Lawrence Reeves - "Max Dehn, decision problems and curvature in group theory"
- 6 August: James Zhao - "Primes and Permutations"
- 30 July: Han Liang Gan - "How to get a Knighthood with Statistics"
- 14 May: Craig Westerland - "Random finite abelian groups"
- 7 May: Sandy Clarke - "Statistical Consultant: the dream job of our time"
- 30 April: Tharatorn Supasiti - "Pizza, crust and other things"
- 16 April: Andrew Robinson - "Quarantine Inspections: How Risky a Business?"
- 26 March: Peter Forrester - "Calculating the date of Easter"
- 19 March: Marty Ross - "Irrational Thoughts"
- 12 March: Jan de Gier - "Alternating sign matrices, fully packed polygons and symmetric plane partitions"
- 5 March: Yi Huang - "Getting Real with R"
Seminars for 2009
- 27 October: Arun Ram - "Today I feel like a mathematician -- personality, music and geometry"
- 23 October: Owen Jones - "Fractals and Dimension"
- 16 October: Marty Ross - "Mathematicians, Movies and Murder"
- 11 September: John Groves - "The roots of Galois Theory; solving polynomial equations in the early days"
- 4 September: Raj Dahya - "The World of Set Theory and Its Use"
- 28 August: Aihua Xia - "On the distributions of run statistics"
- 29 May: Terry Mills - "Forecasting the incidence of cancer"
- 7 May: Craig Westerland - "Fun with Configuration Spaces"
- 30 April: Peter Milley - "Right-angled Hexagons: Hyperbolic Geometry and Topology"
- 24 April: Yi Huang - "Jade and Jurisprudence"
- 20 March: Alex Ghitza - "The Double Life of Primes"
- 6 March: Nora Ganter - "On Secret Messages and why big Prime Numbers are worth a lot of Cash"
Seminars for 2008
- 31 October: Dr. Marty Ross - "Can you Hear the Shape of a Drum?"
- 24 October: Norman Do - "The Mathematical Art of Tiling" - Click here for the seminar slides.
- 19 September: Arun Ram - "Generalising Pascal's Triangle"
- 29 August: Dr. Chris Ormerod - "Solitons: The Weird and Wonderful World of Discrete Waves" - Click here for the seminar slides.
- 15 August: Dr. Marty Ross - "Strange Harmonies: Mathematics and Music"
- 8 August: James Saunderson - "Coding Theory 111000111"
- 1 August: Sam Chow - "733t Advice 4 n00bs: How to P.own at Classic 2 Player Games" - Click here for the seminar slides.
- 11 March: Dr. Marty Ross - "Pulp Fractions: Mathematics Goes to the Movies"
- 18 March: Dr. John Groves - "Newton & Brazil: Tropical Geometry for Beginners"
Seminars for 2007
- 18 October: Dr. Andrew Robinson - "Research Projects - A Purposive Sample"
- 11 October: Prof. Kerry Landman - "Research Projects - Modelling Opportunities"
- 5 October: Prof. Peter Forrester - "Research Projects - Discrete Maths and Mathematical Physics"
- 16 August: Dr. Ken Sharpe - "When Atheletes God Bad, Call a Statistician"
- 9 August: Nick Sheridan - "The Variational Principle"- Click here for the seminar slides.
- 3 August: Prof. Terry Mills - "A Mathematician Goes to Hospital"
- 28 July: Maurice Chiodo - "Hiking in the Hyperbolic Plane"- Click here for the seminar slides.
- 27 July: Dr. Marty Ross - "Gauss's Egregious Theorem"- Click here for the seminar slides.
- 27 April: James Saunderson - "My Favourite Pseudo-number Generator"
- 30 March: Dr. Ian Wanless - "Euler Played Sudoku Too!"
- 9 March: Norm Do - "How to win at tic-tac-toe"
- 2 March: Dr. Marty Ross - "The Joy of Gambling"
Seminars for 2006
- 20 October:Prof. Greg Hjorth - "The Set Theoretical Foundations of Mathematics"
- 13 October:Dr. Bruce Gardiner - "How to build a mutant fly"
- 6 Ocotber:Alison Thomson - "Groups, Graphs and Designing Computer Networks"
- 1 September: Michael Nash and Prof. Ary Hoffmann - "Mathematics, Statistics and the Genetics of Insects"
- 18 August: Nick Sheridan - "When Two Become Three"
- 12 May: Andrew Kwok - "Mandelbrot, Mutations and Monkeys"
- 28 April: Dr Marty Ross - "The Da Vinci Code and Other Mathematical Nonsense"
- 31 March: Dr Anthony Wirth - "Comments On Communication Complexity"
- 24 March: Norman Do - "Constant Curiosity" - Click here for the lecture slides
- 17 March: Daniel Yeow - "Victoria's Secrets" - Click here for the lecture slides
- 10 March: Peter McNamara - "Cake Cutting Algorithm"
- 3 March: Dr Marty Ross - "Evil Infinity?"
Seminars for 2005
- 28 October: Daniel Yeow - "Solving the Rubik's Cube"
- 21 October: Dr Andrew Robinson - "Lumpers of the World, Unite" - Click here for information on equivalence testing
- 7 October: Maurice Chiodo - "Braid Theory: The Mathematics of Hair Styling"
- 26 August: Video Screening - "Fermat's Last Tango - Part 2"
- 19 August: Video Screening - "Fermat's Last Tango - Part 1"
- 12 August: Professor Richard Huggins - "Modern Statistical Techniques In Biostatistics"
- 5 August: Daniel Yeow - "Beauty and Zen of Mathematics"
- 20 May: Maurice Chiodo - "Beauty in Mathematics"
- 6 May: Dr Marty Ross - "To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in the Movies"
- 18 March: Dr Marty Ross - "Irrational Thoughts"
Seminars for 2004
- 25 October: Dr Ole Warnaar - "The Lost Notebook"
- 22 October: Dr Iain Aitchison - "Clay Prizes and the Harmony of Spheres"
- 18 October: Associate Professor Kerry Landman - "The Mathematics of Life"
- 15 October Norman Do - "The Mathematics of Voting"
- 8 October: Professor Tony Guttmann - "How to Win an Olympic Gold Medal in Running" - Click here for the lecture slides.
- 13 September: Dr Burkard Polster - "Escher and Beyond: Art, Mathematics and Magic"
- 3 September: Paul McCormick - "Combinatorics: What sort of maths is that anyway?"
- 20 August: Professor Peter Forrester - "The Riemann Hypothesis and Random Matrices"
- 30 July: Maurice Chiodo - "The Chromatic Number Problem"
- 14 May: Dan Mathews - "Evariste Galois: The Man and his Mathematics"
- 7 May: Video Screening - "Outside In"
- 23 April : Geordie Zhang - "What is a Real Number?"
- 2 April : Dr John Groves - "Which Polygons are Constructible?"
- 26 March : Video Screening - "CHAOS: The Theory which Imposes Order within Disorder"
Seminars for 2003
- 13-14 November: Honours Project Talks - programme and abstracts
- 29 October : Dr Ian Gordon (Director, Statistical Consulting Centre) - A Box Plot of Statistical Consulting
- 22 October : Paul McCormick - Anthrax and Gossip: Alternative Applications of Networks
- 17 September : Vivien Juan - Bridges, Maps, Computer Networks and Graph Theory
- 10 September : Geordie Zhang - Number Theory, Graph Theory, Linear Algebra, Analysis and the Markov Chain Ergodicity Theorem
- 27 August : Maurice Chiodo - Coffee Cups, Doughnuts, And The Four Dimensional Sphere
- 23 May : Daniel Mathews - Poincaré's Problem and Perelman's Purported Proof
- 16 May : Dave Sweeney - Why YOU Need To Know Logic
- 9 May : Paul McCormick - Maths & Art
- 2 May : Maurice Chiodo - Introductory Knot Theory
- 11 April : Geordie Zhang - The Art Of Counting
- 4 April : Dr Marty Ross (School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University) - The Joy Of Gambling
- 28 March : DVD Screening - "Fermat's Last Tango" (A musical fantasy inspired by Andrew Wiles and his encounter with Fermat's Last Theorem)
- 21 March : Dr Paul Norbury - Champagne Problem In Geometry
Seminars for 2002
- 25 October : Zaeem Burq - Foundations Of Probability Theory
- 18 October : Harald Sondergaard (Computer Science and Software Engineering, Melbourne Uni) - Staged Computation: Kleene's "Smn" Theorem in Practice
- 6 September : Dr. Natashia Boland (Department of Maths and Stats, Melbourne Uni) - The MLC Problem in Cancer Radiation Therapy
- 30 August : Aihua Xia (Associate Professor, Maths and Stats, Melbourne Uni) - Coupling, Probability Approximation And The Stein-Chen Method
- 23 August : Daniel Arber - Peas And Rice
- 16 August : Daniel Mathews - Mathemagical Games
- 9 August : Geordie Zhang - History of the Parallel Postulate
- 30 May : Video Screening - N is a Number
- 17 May : Dr Burkard Polster (School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University) - Mathematical Origami
- 22 March : Daniel Mathews - Parachuting and abseiling down quadratic landscapes
Seminars for 2001
- 21 September : Tryon Schnabl - A Journey Through Hyperspace
- 31 August : James Ong - Do war-makers really need analysts?
- 18 May : Daniel Ford - Ramsey Theory
- 11 May : Norman Do - Art Gallery Theorems
Seminars in 2000
- 13 October : Simon Pampena - Order and Choice
- 6 October : Dr. Margreet Kuijper - Interpolation-based decoding of Reed-Solomon codes and connections with linear system theory
- 8 September: Chaitanya Rao - Maths Olympics questions of old
- 1 September: Norman Do - Mathematical Titbits
- 18 August: Samantha Richards - Buffon's Needle: A Simple Monte Carlo Method for the Estimation of Pi
- 11 August: Desmond Lun - Pulsar Emission Theory
- 26 May : Christian Mercat - Celtic Knotwork
- 12 May : Burkard Polster - The Mathematics of Juggling
- 14 April: Michael Volpato - A dozen years is but a day
- 31 March: Simon Pampena - Japanese Temple Mathematics
- 17 March: Chaitanya Rao - A look at Cauchy's equation
Seminars in 1999
- 26 November: Honours Workshop - programme and abstracts
- 29 October: Michael Volpato - P-adic numbers
- 15 October: Daniel Grixti - Multivalued linear operators
- 10 September: John FitzGerald - An overview of Image and Speech Processing
- 27 August: Maziar Nikpour - Topics in Signal Processing
- 6 August: Michael Volpato - Elliptic Curves
- 21 May: Ian Wanless - Latin Squares
- 14 May: Robert Merkel - Generating Test Strings
- 30 April: Simon Petris - Phase Behaviour in Colloidal Dispersions
- 23 April: Eva Swierczak - Maths in Finance - An Introduction to Usage of Mathematics in Financial Derivatives
- 16 April: Natalie Roberts - Analysis of the Age Distribution of Children at Risk of Diabetes
- 26 March: Ian Gordon - Statistical Consulting, a Job for the Curious
- 5 March: Tony Wirth - Shortest Path Graph Algorithms
Seminars in 1998
- 27 November: Honours Workshop - programme and abstracts
- 30 October: Walter Neumann - Napoleon, My Father and Me
- 23 October: Ben Burton - Cryptanalysis on the Front Line
- 16 October Daniel Grixti - The Generalisation of Conic Sections to Hyperbolic and Spherical Space
- 9 October: Tim Ebringer - The Mathematics and Politics of Electronic Cash
- 28 August: Adam Cagliarini - On the Merits of Boxer Shorts
- 21 August: Terry Speed - Mathematics, Statistics and Genomics
- 14 August: Tony Wirth et al. - LaTeX seminar - slides
- 29 May: Graham Weinberg - Geometric Approximation for Markov Hitting Times
- 15 May: Tim Gould - Density Functional Theory
- 12 May: Michael Barnsley - Basic Easy IFS Theory
- 24 April: James Ong - Maths, Intuition and Truth
- 3 April: Tony Wirth - Fast Multiplication Algorithms
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