PhD Journal Club

The talks are intended to be accessible to a general mathematical audience. In particular, the aim of the talks is to:

Introduce a field of mathematics not currently offered in regular coursework.
Encourage students to read more widely within the field of mathematics rather than just within their PhD specialisation.
Have the talks in an informal comfortable setting.
Encourage discussions through an easy-pace.

The benefits of being involved in the talks are:

Extending your knowledge base beyond your PhD topic and undergraduate studies.
Improve your presentation skills.
Strengthen critical thinking and questioning abilities.
Get to know other students within mathematics.

Talks are presented by postgraduate research students in the Discipline of Mathematics at the University of Queensland. All postgraduate students in the Discipline are encouraged to participate.

The talks are currently held most Thursdays at 2 pm in room 67-442. Regular announcements are emailed to members of the Discipline of Mathematics. However if you are not on the email list you can email the coordinator, Katrina Hibberd (keh@maths.uq.edu.au) and ask to be added to the email list. Alternatively, you can regularly check the updated schedule below.

2009 Seminars

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
November 26, 2009	Building 67, Room 442	Stephan Tillmann	Kneser's Lemma and Decompositions of 3-Manifolds
October 8, 2009	Building 67, Room 442	Vivien Challis and Chris Foster	Maths + Juggling = Fun
September 17, 2009	Building 67, Room 442	Tom McCourt	A talk about Putting Hats on Goats
September 10, 2009	Building 67, Room 442	Jonathan Hunt	An introduction to statistical machine translation
September 3, 2009	Building 67, Room 442	Matthew Cooper	The Bohm Interpretation: An understandbale interpretation of quantum mechanics
August 27, 2009	Building 67, Room 442	Bob Buttsworth	Some interesting fractional iterations
August 12, 2009	Building 67, Room 442	Nicholas Coxon	Hilbert's Tenth Problem
May 14, 2009	Building 67, Room 641	Ivan Miljenovic	Functions All the Way Down
April 30, 2009	Building 67, Room 641	Amy Chan	Maths in Origami Design
April 9, 2009	Building 67, Room 641	Jonathan Hunt	An Introduction to Classification Using Support Vector Machines
April 2, 2009	Building 67, Room 641	Tom McCourt	Perfect and Impolite Numbers
March 26, 2009	Building 67, Room 706	Sam Martin	Overhang: A Talk Stolen from Mike Paterson and Uri Zwick
March 19, 2009	Building 67, Room 706	Peter Finch	The Problem with Angels and devils
March 12, 2009	Building 67, Room 706	Nicholas Coxon	P vs. NP and Minesweeper is NP-Complete
March 5, 2009	Building 67, Room 706	Andrew Birrell	Swarming Robots: Finding Stability in Coordinated Behaviour Part 2
February 26, 2009	Building 67, Room 706	Andrew Birrell	Swarming Robots: Finding Stability in Coordinated Behaviour Part 1
February 19, 2009	Building 67, Room 706	Duncan Mortimer	Compressive Sensing Part 2
February 12, 2009	Building 67, Room 706	Duncan Mortimer	Compressive Sensing Part 1

2008 Seminars

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
September 30, 2008	Building 69, Room 706	Peter Finch	Knots and Invariants
October 7, 2008	Building 69, Room 706	Peter Finch	Knots and Invariants II
October 14, 2008	Building 69, Room 706	Duncan Mortimer	Square Dancing with rational tangles
October 21, 2008	Building 69, Room 706	Vivien Challis	The basics of pseudo-random number generators
October 28, 2008	Building 69, Room 706	Vivien Challis	The Mersenne Twister
November 4, 2008	Building 69, Room 706	Tom McCourt	Voltage Graphs: An Introduction
November 11, 2008	Building 69, Room 706	Jonathan Hunt	Random numbers and security
November 18, 2008	Building 69, Room 706	Geoff Martin	The Probabilistic Method
November 25, 2008	Building 69, Room 706	Nick Coxon	The McEliece Public Key Cryptosystem