First semester 2016-2017: the seminar will be held on Thursdays at 2pm in Ag. 1.01 (Seminar Room).
Sept. 22: Robert Osburn (UCD), "Sequences, modular forms and cellular integrals".
Sept. 29: Richard Ellard (UCD), "Diagonal elements in the nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem".
Oct. 6: Thomas Unger (UCD), "Sums of squares and positivity in algebras with involution".
Oct. 13: Vincent Astier (UCD), "Positive cones on algebras with involution".
Oct. 27: Oliver Mason (NUIM), "Diagonal and D-stability for switched and time-delay systems".
Nov. 3:
James O'Shea (NUIM), "Group forms, round forms and Pfister multiples".
Nov. 10:
Larry Rolen (TCD), "Divisors of modular forms".
Nov. 17: Jeremy Lovejoy (Paris 7), "Torus knots and quantum modular forms".
Nov. 24:
Spela Spenko (University of Edinburgh), "The length of a generic vector subspace of M_n(F)".
Second semester:
Feb. 2:
Kevin Hutchinson (UCD), "The low-dimensional homology of SL_2 of S-integers".
Feb. 9: Alberto Fernandez-Boix (Ben-Gurion), "An algorithm for producing differential operators in prime characteristic".
Feb. 16: Stiofain Fordham (UCD), "On the Dwork cohomology of two classes of exponential sums".
Feb. 23:
Graham Ellis (NUIG), "Topological data analysis" (cancelled).
March 2:
Sander Zwegers (Cologne), "Indefinite theta functions".
March 9: Eimear Byrne (UCD), "Puncturing and shortening of rank metric codes".
March 30:
Mark Dukes (UCD), "Web diagrams: a combinatorial construct combining graphs and permutations".
*March 31:
Igor Klep (Auckland), "Positive polynomials and the universal Procesi-Schacher conjecture".
April 6: Polona Oblak (Ljubljana), "The maximum of the minimal
multiplicity of eigenvalues of symmetric matrices whose pattern is
constrained by a graph".
April 13: Emrah Sercan Yilmaz (UCD), "The number of irreducible polynomials with prescribed coefficients over finite fields".
April 20:
Clement Dupont (Montpellier), "Linear forms in zeta values and mixed Tate motives".
April 27:
Helena Smigoc (UCD), "From positive matrices to positive polynomial coefficients".
*May 10: Roozbeh Hazrat (Western Sydney University), "Leavitt path algebras".
*Special day and time