First semester 2017-2018: the seminar will be held on Thursdays at 2pm in Ag. 1.01 (Seminar Room)
Sept. 21: Marianne Leitner (DIAS), "Modular forms and quantum field theory".
Sept. 28: Rod Gow (UCD), "The influence of rank on the dimension of a subspace of bilinear forms".
Oct. 5: Ruth Britto (TCD), "A Hopf algebra for Feynman diagrams and integrals".
Oct. 12: Victoria Lebed (TCD), "Yang-Baxter equation, knots, cohomology: a golden triangle".
Oct. 19: John Sheekey (UCD), "Algebraic constructions of semifields and maximum rank distance codes".
Oct. 26: Clement de Seguins Pazzis (Versailles), "Decompositions into sums or products of two quadratic matrices".
Nov. 2: Marianne Leitner (DIAS), "Modular forms and quantum field theory: new results".
Nov. 9: Christine Lee (UT-Austin and MPIM), "Stability properties of the colored Jones polynomial".
Nov. 16: Thomas Unger (UCD), "Positive cones and gauges on algebras with involution".
Nov. 23:
Alberto Ravagnani (UCD), "A mathematical framework for adversarial network communications".
Second semester:
Feb. 1: Michael Tuite (NUIG), "Vertex operator algebras on Riemann surfaces with some applications".
Feb. 8: Stiofain Fordham (UCD), "Slope estimates of Artin-Schreier F-crystals".
Feb. 15:
Bartosz Naskrecki (Adam Mickiewicz University), "Hypergeometric differential equations and hypergeometric motives".
Feb. 22: Graham Ellis (NUIG), "Topological data analysis".
*March 1: Alessandro Siciliano (University of Basilicata), "Cyclic models for finite vector spaces and applications".
**March 12: Carlos Moreno (CUNY), "Number of solutions of algebraic equations over finite fields".
March 29: Anna Haensch (Duquesne University and MPIM), "Spinor regular ternary quadratic forms".
April 5: Neil O'Connell (UCD), "Birational RSK correspondence and Whittaker functions".
April 12: Laurent Vuillon (University Savoie Mont Blanc), "Combinatorics on words for Markoff numbers".
April 19: Damjana Kokol Bukovsek (Ljubljana), "Commuting graph of the algebra of matrices".
April 26: Chris Jennings-Shaffer (Cologne), "Modular forms from partitions".
*cancelled due to snow
**special date and time