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2023

Past SDG Seminars

2022

  • 08/04/22: Theodore Kolokolnikov (Dalhousie University) "Mathematics of emergent behaviour"

2021

  • 13/02/21: Richard Montgomery (University of California Santa Cruz) "Some open questions in the N-body problem" video
  • 26/03/21: Nathan Duignan (University of Colorado) "Integrability, normal forms, and magnetic axis coordinates" video
  • 23/04/21: Jason Atnip (UNSW) "Random interval maps with holes" video
  • 30/04/21: Eric Hester (USyd) "Modelling fluid-solid interactions" video
  • 13/05/21: Florica Cîrstea (USyd) "Existence of singular solutions to elliptic equations with critical Hardy-Sobolev growth" video
  • 28/05/21: Cecilia González-Tokman (University of Queensland) "Lyapunov exponents for transfer operator cocycles of random interval maps" video
  • 11/06/21: Monique Chyba (University of Hawaii) "Epidemiological modeling, and COVID-19 heterogeneity in islands chain environment" video
  • 25/06/21: Connor Jackman (CIMAT) "The geometry of (planar) Kepler orbits" video
  • 13/08/21: Rachel Wang (USyd) "When random initialisations help: a study of variational inference for community detection"
  • 27/08/21: Hinke Osinga (University of Auckland) "Computing periodic travelling waves and their stability in a heteroclinic-cycle model" video
  • 10/09/21: Alfonso Sorrentino (University of Rome "Tor Vergata") "The Hamilton–Jacobi equation on networks: weak KAM and Aubry–Mather theories" video
  • 24/09/21: Chunxi Jiao (USyd) "Solution of a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Slonczewski equation" video
  • 08/10/21: Courtney Quinn (CSIRO Hobart) "Dynamical analysis of data-driven reduced models for persistent atmospheric states" video
  • 22/10/21: Andrus Giraldo (University of Auckland) "Degenerate singular cycles and chaotic switching in the two-site open Bose-Hubbard model"
  • 05/11/21: Meagan Carney (University of Queensland) "Nonstationary extremal modeling in weather systems"

2020

  • 13/02/20: Keaton Burns (MIT) "Flexible spectral methods and high-level programming for PDEs"
  • 28/02/20: Bob Rink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) "Bifurcations in networks and representations of semigroups. Part 1"
  • 06/03/20: Ian Melbourne (Warwick) "Anomalous diffusion in deterministic systems. Part I"
  • 13/03/20: Ian Melbourne (Warwick) "Anomalous diffusion in deterministic systems. Part II"
  • 13/03/20: Bob Rink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) "Aubry-Mather theory for twist maps and monotone recurrence relations"
  • 20/03/20: Martin Stahn (Freie Universität Berlin) "TBA"
  • 24/04/20: Sean Gasiorek (USyd) "Magnetic variants of billiard systems" video
  • 15/05/20: Jason Atnip (UNSW) "Thermodynamic formalism for random weighted covering systems" video
  • 22/05/20: Carlo Laing (Massey, NZ) "Dynamics and stability of chimera states in two coupled populations of oscillators" video
  • 29/05/20: Zachary Nicolaou (Northwestern University)) "Critical switching in globally attractive chimeras" video
  • 05/06/20: Bob Dewar (ANU) "Time-dependent relaxed magnetohydrodynamics -- inclusion of cross helicity constraint using phase-space action" video
  • 12/06/20: Reza Mohammadpour (IMPAN-Warsaw) "Lyapunov spectrum properties" video
  • 26/06/20: Caroline Wormell (USyd) "Spectral convergence of diffusion maps" video
  • 02/07/20: Davide Ravotti (Monash) "Quantitative global-local mixing for accessible skew products" video
  • 31/07/20: David Pfefferle (University of Western Australia) "What do spinning tops and flowing plasmas have in common?" video
  • 21/08/20: David Pfefferle (University of Western Australia) "Spinning tops and magneto-hydrodynamics: Part 2" video
  • 11/09/20: Georg Gottwald (USyd) "Supervised learning from noisy observations: Combining machine-learning techniques with data assimilation"
  • 09/10/20: Priya Subramanian (Oxford) "Formation of complex spatial patterns in systems with two length scales"
  • 23/10/20: Corey Shanbrom (California State University Sacramento) "Self-similarity in the Kepler-Heisenberg problem"
  • 28/10/20: Sandro Vaienti (Université de Marseille) "On some recent applications of extreme value theory to dynamical systems"
  • 06/11/20: Mariusz Urbanski (University of North Texas) "Random non-hyperbolic exponential maps"

2019

  • 31/01/19: Daniel Lecoanet (Princeton) "Testing theories of wave generation by convection"
  • 11/02/19: Shakti Menon (Chennai) "Flocking in systems of stochastically interacting agents with a field of view"
  • 30/04/19: Anna von der Heydt (Utrecht) "The past predicts the future - or not? Lessons on climate sensitivity from palaeoclimate"
  • 03/05/19: Anna von der Heydt (Utrecht) "The Eocene-Oligocene transition – observations, mechanisms, cascading tipping?"
  • 10/05/19: Peter Koltai (FU Berlin) "Data-based methods for the revelation of dominant dynamical structures"
  • 17/05/19: Davide Faranda (CNRS-IPSL-LSCE, Paris) "Dynamical systems tools to study atmospheric flows and improve stochastic models" Sampling rare trajectories in chaotic systems
  • 07/06/19: Eduardo Altmann (USyd) "Sampling rare trajectories in chaotic systems"
  • 09/08/19: Vidit Nanda (Oxford) "An introduction to topological data analysis"
  • 24/09/19: Caroline Wormell (USyd) "Linear response for macroscopic observables in high-dimensional systems"
  • 11/09/19: Jack Xin (UC Irvine) "Enhanced diffusivity in chaotic flows"
  • 06/11/19: Florica Cîrstea (USyd) "TBA"
  • 29/11/19: Sebastian Reich (Potsdam) "The Schrödinger perspective on data assimilation"

2018

  • 12/01/18: Daniel Lecoanet (Princeton) "Model hierarchies for computational data analysis"
  • 16/03/18: Amin Chabchoub (USyd) "Soliton and breather dynamics on the water surface"
  • 23/03/18: Justin Tzou (Macquarie) "Localised pattern dynamics and mean first passage time optimisation - analysis techniques and surprising connections"
  • 25/05/18: Dimitris Giannakis (Courant) "Spatiotemporal pattern extraction by spectral analysis of vector-valued observables"
  • 28/05/18: Andy Hammerlindl (Monash) "What is a blender?"
  • 01/06/18: Dmitry Pelinovsky (McMaster, Canada) "Standing waves on metric graphs"
  • 20/07/18: Caroline Wormell (USyd) "Classification of slow mixing formations in chaotic dynamics"
  • 03/08/18: Konstantin Clauß (TU Dresden) "Localization on fractals in open systems: A resonance eigenfunction hypothesis"
  • 24/08/18: Maxime Bombar (ENS Cachan) "The capacity of linear time invariant channels and delocalisation"
  • 31/08/18: Oliver Junge (TU München) "Robust FEM-based extraction of finite-time coherent sets using scattered, sparse, and incomplete trajectories"
  • 31/08/18: Bjorn Winckler (Imperial) "Instability of renormalization"
  • 07/09/18: Mason Porter (UCLA) "Spreading Processes on Networks"
  • 14/09/18: John Maclean (Adelaide) "Projected particle filtering"
  • 19/10/18: Edgar Knobloch (Berkeley) "Asymptotic techniques for flows with strong restraints: rapidly rotating convection"
  • 26/10/18: Ian Lizarraga (USyd) "Approximating slow manifolds with the computational singular perturbation method"
  • 21/11/18: Vladimir Zeitlin (ENS Paris) "Small is beautiful: understanding complex meteorological phenomena in tropics with simple mathematical models"

2017

  • 28/02/17: Guilio Casati (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria) "That kind of motion we call heat: a major societal problem for the 21st century"
  • 24/03/17: Ian Melbourne (Warwick) "The Lorenz attractor mixes exponentially quickly"
  • 03/05/17: Michael Small (Western Australia) "Communities within networks"
  • 12/05/17: Sahani Pathiraja (UNSW) "Model uncertainty estimation for data assimilation"
  • 02/06/17: Pierre del Moral (INRIA, Bordeaux/UNSW) "On the stability and the uniform propagation of chaos properties of Ensemble Kalman-Bucy filters"
  • 21/07/17: Gilles Vilmart (University of Geneva) "Long time numerical solution of stochastic differential equations: the interplay of geometric integration and stochastic integration"
  • 04/08/17: Andrew Papanicolaou (New York University) "A Quantitative Approach for Contango in VIX "
  • 11/08/17: Tiangang Cui (Monash University) "Subspace Acceleration for Large-Scale Bayesian Inverse Problems"
  • 01/09/17: Gaurav Dhariwal (University of York) "A study of constrained Navier-Stokes Equations and related problems"
  • 13/10/17: Vladimir Gaitsgory (Macquarie University) "Averaging of singularly perturbed deterministic and stochastic control systems"
  • 20/10/17: Sophie Calabretto (Macquarie University) "Extraction of submesoscale eddies"
  • 27/10/17: Jason Frank (University of Utrecht) "Tangent-space splittings for data assimilation"
  • 16/11/17: Ofer Shwartz (Weizmann Institute) "Thermodynamic formalism for countable Markov shifts"

2016

  • 22/01/16: Henk Bruin (Vienna) "Sharp mixing rates via inducing w.r.t. general return times"
  • 19/02/16: Sandro Vaienti (Marseille) "Statistical properties of non-autonomous (sequential) dynamical systems: limit theorems and extreme values"
  • 04/04/16: Michael Bjorklund (Chalmers) "Quasi-crystals, Fourier analysis and ergodic theory. Lecture 1"
  • 08/04/16: Michael Bjorklund (Chalmers) "Quasi-crystals, Fourier analysis and ergodic theory. Lecture 2"
  • 11/04/16: Michael Bjorklund (Chalmers) "Quasi-crystals, Fourier analysis and ergodic theory. Lecture 3"
  • 15/04/16: Michael Bjorklund (Chalmers) "Quasi-crystals, Fourier analysis and ergodic theory. Lecture 4"
  • 18/04/16: Michael Bjorklund (Chalmers) "Quasi-crystals, Fourier analysis and ergodic theory. Lecture 5"
  • 22/04/16: Andy Hammerlindl (Monash) "Surgery on Anosov flows and new partially hyperbolic examples"
  • 17/06/16: Nick Pizzo (University of California San Diego) "Properties of nonlinear and breaking deep-water surface waves"
  • 29/06/16: Yury Stepanyants (Southern Queensland) "Modulational instability of quasi-harmonic wave-trains in rotating fluids"
  • 26/07/16: Philippe Guyenne (Delaware) "The surface signature of internal waves in the ocean"
  • 09/12/16: Carlangelo Liverani (Roma Tor Vergata) "Distributions and dynamical systems"
  • 16/12/16: Carina Geldhauser (Weierstrass Institute, Berlin) "The scaling limit of a particle system with long-range interaction"

2015

  • 16/01/15: Yangjin Kim (Konkuk University) "Onset of the Th17 phenotype in asthma development: A mathematical model"
  • 13/02/15: Misha Neklyudov "New type of homogenization problem for the heat equation"
  • 20/02/15: Leonardo Figueroa (University of Concepcion) "Analytical aspects of orthogonal expansions on the unit disk"
  • 02/03/15: Ian Melbourne (Warwick) "Stochastic limits for deterministic dynamical systems (Lecture 1)"
  • 06/03/15: Ian Melbourne (Warwick) "Stochastic limits for deterministic dynamical systems (Lecture 2)"
  • 09/03/15: Ian Melbourne (Warwick) "Stochastic limits for deterministic dynamical systems (Lecture 3)"
  • 13/03/15: Ian Melbourne (Warwick) "Stochastic limits for deterministic dynamical systems (Lecture 4)"
  • 16/03/15: Ian Melbourne (Warwick) "Stochastic limits for deterministic dynamical systems (Lecture 5)"
  • 20/03/15: Ian Melbourne (Warwick) "Stochastic limits for deterministic dynamical systems (Lecture 6)"
  • 15/04/15: Mark Freidlin (Maryland) "Long-time influence of small perturbations (Lecture 1)"
  • 16/04/15: Mark Freidlin (Maryland) "Long-time influence of small perturbations (Lecture 2)"
  • 17/04/15: Jacek Grela (Jagiellonian University Cracow) "Significance of eigenvectors in the non-hermitian random matrix models"
  • 22/04/15: Mark Freidlin (Maryland) "Long-time influence of small perturbations (Lecture 3)"
  • 23/04/15: Mark Freidlin (Maryland) "Long-time influence of small perturbations (Lecture 4)"
  • 29/04/15: Mark Freidlin (Maryland) "Long-time influence of small perturbations (Lecture 5)"
  • 30/04/15: Mark Freidlin (Maryland) "Long-time influence of small perturbations (Lecture 6)"
  • 29/05/15: Dave Galloway "40 years of Dufort-Frankel: a cautionary tale"
  • 10/07/15: Andrew Papanicolaou "Forward-Backward SDEs for Control with Partial Information"
  • 17/07/15: John Maclean "A note on implementations of the boosting algorithm and heterogeneous multiscale methods"
  • 22/07/15: Graham Cox (North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Manifold decompositions and indices of Schrödinger operators"
  • 31/07/15: Chris Lustri "Asymptotic analysis of delayed bifurcations in the discrete logistic equation"
  • 28/08/15: Georg Gottwald "Model reduction for networks of coupled oscillators"
  • 20/11/15: Davor Dragicevic "Sacker and Sell spectral theory"
  • 27/11/15: Jacek Krawczyk (Wellington) "Viability theory: an applied mathematics tool for achieving dynamic systems’ sustainability"

2014

  • 08/01/14: Rob Sturman (Leeds University) "The ergodic hierarchy and its relation to uniform hyperbolicity"
  • 09/01/14: Rob Sturman (Leeds University) "Pesin theory and non-uniform hyperbolicity"
  • 10/01/14: Rob Sturman (Leeds University) "Rates of mixing in models of fluid flow"
  • 24/01/14: Marcel Oliver (Jacobs University, Bremen) "Hamiltonian balance models for shallow water flow"
  • 13/02/14: Michael Small (University of Western Australia) "Why are scale-free networks interesting?"
  • 31/03/14: Ian Melbourne (University of Warwick) "Smooth approximation of stochastic processes"
  • 31/03/14: Rua Murray (University of Canterbury) "Ulam's method for open dynamical systems"
  • 15/04/14: François Ledrappier (University of Notre Dame) "Stochastic entropy for compact manifolds: properties, regularity, rigidity"
  • 17/04/14: John Rinzel (Courant) "Perceptual dynamics in an ambiguous world"
  • 02/06/14: Andy Hammerlindl Lecture on "Stable ergodicity on surfaces"
  • 03/06/14: Andy Hammerlindl Lecture on "Ergodicity and partial hyperbolicity"
  • 06/06/14: Andrey Shilnikov (Georgia State) "Symbolic quest into homoclinic chaos"
  • 01/08/14: Laurie Field (Chicago) "Conformally invariant processes and the Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE)"
  • 15/08/14: John Terry (University of Exeter) "The role of macroscopic brain networks in seizure initiation"
  • 19/08/14: Anthony Quas (University of Victoria) "Asymmetric warfare"
  • 22/08/14: Freddy Dumortier (Universiteit Hasselt) "Relaxation oscillations in slow-fast systems"
  • 29/08/14: Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin) "Einstein on the beach: fluid flow on a curved space"
  • 29/08/14: Kathrin Padberg-Gehle (TU Dresden) "On coherent structures, transport, and mixing"
  • 05/09/14: Ted Johnson (University College London) "Nonlinear wavepacket emergence in internal wave evolution in a rotating frame"
  • 26/09/14: Yury Stepanyants (University of Southern Queensland) "Nonlinear vector waves in the atomic chain model"
  • 03/10/14: Sarthok Sircar (University of Adelaide) "Multi-scale modeling in ionic gels and particle aggregation"
  • 10/10/14: Kamil Bulinski "Plunnecke inequalities for cardinality, density and measure"
  • 17/10/14: Andy Hammerlindl "Ergodic components of partially hyperbolic systems"
  • 24/10/14: Emeric Bouin (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon) "Travelling waves for models of kinetic type in biology"
  • 31/10/14: Geoff Vasil "Statistical properties of magnetised fluids and elastic solids"

2013

  • 22/01/13: Vladimir Gaitsgory (Flinders University) "Linear Programming and averaging approaches to singularly perturbed optimal control problems"
  • 01/02/13: David Kelly (University of Warwick) "Homogenisation for multidimensional maps"
  • 08/03/13: Cecilia Gonzalez Tokman "Stability and approximation of random invariant densities via a multiplicative ergodic theorem"
  • 22/03/13: Shane Keating "Stochastic data assimilation methods for ocean state estimation"
  • 03/04/13: Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb (Cambridge) "Noise estimation by PDE-constrained optimisation"
  • 04/04/13: Ian Melbourne (University of Warwick) "Mixing and rates of mixing for continuous time infinite measure systems"
  • 19/04/13: Sasha Fish "Product sets in amenable groups through a dynamical approach"
  • 03/05/13: Federico Frascoli (University of Melbourne) "Anti-tumor immunity and growing cancers: a dynamical system approach"
  • 24/05/13: Ray Kawai "Mathematical programming gives hard bounds of the Dirichlet problem for partial differential equations"
  • 31/05/13: Christian Franzke (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge) "Predicting climate tipping points using stochastic models"
  • 07/06/13: Holger Dullin "Two new integrable systems related to the Euler equations on a rotating sphere"
  • 19/07/13: Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh) "Unexpected chaos in a neural model"
  • 09/08/13: Thomas Lepoutre (University of Lyon I) "Cell polarisation model: The 1D case"
  • 16/08/13: Mikhail Neklyudov "Dynamics of nanomagnetic particle systems"
  • 23/08/13: Karsten Peters (Monash University) "Modelling the observed stochasticity of tropical convection"
  • 06/09/13: Szymon Peszat (Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow) "Passive scalar dynamics"
  • 19/12/13: George Papanicolaou (Stanford) "Correlation based imaging and geophysical applications"

2012

  • 13/01/12: Ian Melbourne (University of Surrey) "Operator renewal theory and mixing rates in infinite ergodic theory"
  • 27/01/12: Georg Gottwald "Diffusion and anomalous diffusion in spatially extended systems"
  • 09/03/12: Sheehan Olver "Sparse and stable spectral methods"
  • 16/03/12: Boris Kruglikov (University of Tromsø) "Hamiltonian integrability in geometry and relativity"
  • 30/03/12: Gary Froyland "Finite-time entropy: a probabilistic approach for measuring nonlinear stretching"
  • 10/04/12: Arieh Iserles (University of Cambridge) "Splittings, commutators and the linear Schrödinger equation"
  • 03/05/12: Jinqiao Duan (UCLA and Illinois Institute of Technology) "A glimpse of stochastic dynamics"
  • 18/05/12: Martin Wechselberger "Transonic evaporation waves in a spherical symmetric nozzle"
  • 01/06/12: Cecilia Gonzalez-Tokman (University of Victoria, Canada) "Semi-invertible Oseledets theorem for operators"
  • 03/08/12: Robert Marangell "The spectrum of periodic wavetrains in the sine-Gordon equation"
  • 17/08/12: Erik van Sebille "Lagrangian analysis of the global-scale ocean circulation"
  • 14/09/12: Andy Hammerlindl "Partial hyperbolicity in dimension three"
  • 19/09/12: Lorenz Gilch (TU Graz) "Drift and entropy of random walks on regular languages"
  • 04/10/12: Ferdinand Verhulst (University of Utrecht) "Torus bifurcations and chaos"
  • 19/10/12: Chris K.R.T. Jones (UNC Chapel Hill) "Indices and instabilities"
  • 23/10/12: Chris K.R.T. Jones (UNC Chapel Hill) "Issues arising in the assimilation of data from Lagrangian type instruments"
  • 02/11/12: Heather Reeve-Black (Queen Mary, University of London) "Near-integrable behaviour in a family of discretised rotations"
  • 21/11/12: Michael Proctor (University of Cambridge) "Dynamic bifurcations and pattern formation in melting-boundary convection"

2011

  • 07/01/11: Ian Melbourne (University of Surrey) "Operator renewal theory and mixing rates in infinite ergodic theory"
  • 11/03/11: Michael Roeckner (Universität Bielefeld) "The global random attractor for a class of stochastic porous media equations"
  • 25/03/11: Maria Bruna-Estrach (Oxford University) "Excluded-volume effects in the diffusion of multiple species"
  • 08/04/11: Klemens Fellner (Cambridge University) "The dynamics of non-local interaction equations with repulsive-aggregating potentials"
  • 29/04/11: Georg Gottwald "On the toplogy of synchrony-optimized networks"
  • 20/05/11: Martin Wechselberger "Physiological model reduction techniques in systems with multiple time-scales: when are they mathematically justified?"
  • 03/06/11: Gary Froyland "Transport in time-dependent dynamical systems: Finite-time coherent sets"
  • 17/06/11: Lewis Mitchell "Stochastic homogenization in data assimilation"
  • 01/07/11: Peter Kim "Imatinib dynamics and cancer vaccines: From agent-based models to PDEs"
  • 19/09/11: Robert Marangell "Unstable solitons in nonlinear Schroedinger equations with inhomogeneous nonlinearity"
  • 06/10/11: Govind Menon (Brown University) "Stochastic dynamics of Burgers turbulence"
  • 17/10/11: Christopher Angstmann "Turing patterns and sub-cellular protein localisation"
  • 23/10/11: John Norbury (Oxford University) "Constructing Ecologies"
  • 02/11/11: Mickael Chekroun (UCLA) "Optimal transport on invariant measures of stochastic flows, and the power spectrum"
  • 09/12/11: Graeme Pope (ETH) "Sparse signal recovery using uncertainty principles"

2010

  • 22/01/10: Ilona Gucwa (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) "Blow-up analysis of an autocatalator model"
  • 12/02/10: Randall Leveque (University of Washington) "High-resolution finite volume methods and applications to Tsunami modeling"
  • 05/03/10: Hinke Osinga (Bristol University) "The mystery of chaos in the Lorenz equations"
  • 19/03/10: John Guckenheimer (Cornell University) "Bifurcations of multiple time scale systems"
  • 16/04/10: Franco Vivaldi (Queen Mary College) "Order vs. chaos when the space is discrete"
  • 30/04/10: Martin Wechselberger "Canard theory"
  • 14/04/10: Ben Goldys "Analysis of the stochastic Landau-Lifschitz equation using stochastic flows"
  • 04/06/10: Gary Morriss "Lyapunov modes for particle systems"
  • 11/06/10: Sanjeeva Balasuriya (University of Adelaide) "Manifold destiny: a talk on water, fire and life"
  • 18/06/10: Holger Dullin "A Poisson structure and integrator for the reduced N-body problem"
  • 03/09/10: Guo Hua Zhang (Fudan University) "Local aspects of topological weak mixing"
  • 10/09/10: Thorsten Hüls (Universität Bielefeld) "Computing dichotomy projectors and Sacker-Sell spectra in discrete time dynamical systems"
  • 08/10/10: Rua Murray (University of Canterbury) "Polynomial decay of correlations in generalised Baker's maps"
  • 05/11/10: Patrick Noble "Modelling the sunspot number distribution with a Fokker-Planck equation"
  • 19/11/10: Georg Gottwald "On thermostats and their link to Langevin equations in molecular dynamics"
  • 10/12/10: Jon Chapman "Finite size effects in diffusion"

2009

  • 20/02/09: Richard Rand (Cornell University) "Introduction to systems of phase-only oscillators with application to cardiac dynamics"
  • 06/03/09: Craig Bishop (Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey) "4DVAR data assimilation using modulated ensembles and the challenge of coupled data assimilation"
  • 20/03/09: Peter Koltai (Technische Universität München) "Transfer operators and numerics -- a collection of ideas"
  • 14/08/09: Georg Gottwald "Dispersive regularization techniques for shock-developing systems"
  • 28/08/09: Simon Lloyd "Isolated Lyapunov spectrum for Perron-Frobenius cocycles"
  • 23/10/09: Reinout Quispel (La Trobe University) "Discrete integrable systems"
  • 06/11/09: Max Skipper "Poincaré's observation and a limit theorem for projections of random walk on high dimensional spheres"
  • 20/11/09: Anthony Quas (University of Victoria) "Properties of piecewise isometries"
  • 27/11/09: David Dritschel (St Andrews) "The concept of "balance" in rotating stratified turbulent flows"
  • 04/12/09: James Atkinson "Bäcklund transformations and discrete integrable systems"

2008

  • 07/03/08: Martin Wechselberger "Canards, MMOs and homoclinic bifurcations in a stellate cell model"
  • 14/03/08: Georg Gottwald "Slow balanced limit equations for a toy model - deterministic and stochastic model reductions"
  • 04/04/08: Christopher Bose (University of Victoria) "Generalised baker's transformations"
  • 18/04/08: Christopher Bose (University of Victoria) "Invariant measures and computation in ergodic theory I"
  • 02/05/08: Christopher Bose (University of Victoria) "Invariant measures and computation in ergodic theory II"
  • 16/05/08: John Roberts "Periodic orbits of linear endomorphisms on the 2-torus and its lattices"
  • 30/05/08: Holger Dullin "Nilpotent normal form for divergence-free vector fields and volume- preserving maps"
  • 06/06/08: Mike Field (University of Houston) "Global dynamics and combinatorics of coupled cell systems"
  • 09/08/08: Charlie Macaskill " A universal scaling theory for two-dimensional turbulence"
  • 15/08/08: Franco Vivaldi (Queen Mary, University of London) "Pseudo-hyperbolic points in piecewise isometric systems"
  • 29/08/08: Dave Galloway "Some nonlinear problems in dynamo theory"
  • 12/09/08: Mike Wheatland "Chaos in the corridor: The School of Physics double square pendulum"
  • 26/09/08: Georg Gottwald "Reduced dynamics for stochastic dynamical systems"
  • 17/10/08: Naratip Satitissadeekorn "Identifying almost invariant set by spectral graph partitioning"
  • 31/10/08: Sebastian Reich (Universität Potsdam) "Correcting model errors through nonlinear ensemble filters"
  • 14/11/08: Natascha Neumärker (Universität Bielefeld) "Orbit vs. fixed point counts: arithmetic and combinatorial aspects"
  • 26/11/08: Edgar Knobloch (UC Berkeley) "Spatially localized structures in dissipative systems"
  • 05/12/08: Michael Baake (Universität Bielefeld) "The singular continuous measure of the Thue-Morse chain"
  • 05/12/08: Arek Goetz (San Francisco State University) "The interplay of geometry and number theory in piecewise rotations - dynamical systems with singularities"
  • 17/12/08: Ian Melbourne (University of Surrey) "Stochastic model reduction for deterministic dynamical systems"

2007

  • 16/03/07: Georg Gottwald "Justification and validity of the 0-1 test"
  • 30/03/07: Martin Wechselberger "Canards in physiology"
  • 20/04/07: Holger Dullin (Loughborough/Colorado) "Frequency map near the 1:-2 resonance in Hamiltonian Systems "
  • 27/04/07: Dalia Terhesiu "Detecting phase transitions and a fast way to compute topoligical pressure and entropy"
  • 11/05/07: Gary Froyland "Detecting dominant dynamical structures in hyperbolic systems"
  • 25/05/07: Georg Gottwald "Bifurcation analysis of a 'normal form' for excitable media."
  • 08/06/07: Gary Morriss "Transport coefficients, to the Lorentz gas and Chaos"
  • 27/07/07: Franco Vivaldi (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London) "Piecewise isometries"
  • 10/08/07: John Roberts "Symplectic structures for difference equations, including integrable maps"
  • 24/08/07: Warren Weckesser (Colgate University) "Epidemic size for SIR disease models I"
  • 02/11/07: Warren Weckesser (Colgate University) "Epidemic size for SIR disease models II"
  • 16/11/07: Brian Gray "Dynamical Systems arising from chemical kinetic systems"
  • 30/11/07: Simon Lloyd "Dynamics of interval exchange transformations with flips"
  • 07/12/07: Roderick Dewar (INRA Bordeaux) "Is Statistical mechanics a theory of everything?"