Author name: Benedikt Magnússon

George A. Willis (13/10/14)George A. Willis (13/10/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: George A. Willis, University of Newcastle, Australia Titill: Why locally compact groups are interesting and what can be said about them Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 13. október, frá 15:30 til 16:30. Math Colloquium Speaker: George A. Willis, University of Newcastle, Australia Title: Why locally compact groups are interesting and what […]

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Sara Sabrina Zemljic (06/10/14)Sara Sabrina Zemljic (06/10/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Sara Sabrina Zemljic, University of Iceland Titill: Sierpiński graphs Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 6. október, frá 15:00 til 16:00. Ágrip: Sierpiński graphs form an extensively studied family of graphs of fractal nature applicable in topology, mathematics of the Tower of Hanoi, computer science, and elsewhere. In the talk we will

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Daníel F. Guðbjartsson (03/10/14)Daníel F. Guðbjartsson (03/10/14)

Málstofa í tölfræði Fyrirlesari: Daníel F. Guðbjartsson, Department of Statistics, deCODE genetics Titill: Estimating the effect of a sequence variant on correlated phenotypes Staðsetning: Lögberg, 201 Tími: Föstudagur 3. október , frá 12:00 til 13:00. Ágrip: Some variations in the human genome associate with multiple correlated phenotypes. This leads naturally to questions about conditional independence.

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Anna Helga Jónsdóttir (29/09/14)Anna Helga Jónsdóttir (29/09/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Anna Helga Jónsdóttir, University of Iceland Titill: The performance of first year students on a diagnostic test of basic mathematical skills Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 29. september, frá 15:00 til 16:00. Ágrip: Dropout-rates and poor performance of students in first year courses in calculus in the School of Engineering and

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Auðunn Skúta Snæbjarnarson (01/10/14)Auðunn Skúta Snæbjarnarson (01/10/14)

Meistaraprófsfyrirlestur Auðunn Skúta Snæbjarnarson Titill: Approximation of Holomorphic Functions in the Complex Plane Staðsetning: Askja, 130. Tímasetning: Miðvikudagur 1. október, klukkan 16:40. Ágrip: Fjallað er um nálganir á fáguðum föllum, með margliðum, ræðum föllum eða heilum föllum. -tilvistararsetning Hörmanders fyrir Cauchy-Riemann virkjann er notuð til þess að sanna alhæfingu á setningu Bernstein-Walsh, sem lýsir jafngildi

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Kristinn Guðnason (30/09/14)Kristinn Guðnason (30/09/14)

Meistaraprófsfyrirlestur Kristinn Guðnason Titill: Numerical Approximation of Elastic Body with Tresca Friction Boundary Condition Staðsetning: VR-II, 155. Tímasetning: Þriðjudagur 30. september, klukkan 16:30. Ágrip: Í þessari MS-ritgerð er fjallað um tvívítt líkan af sívalningslaga línulegu teygjanlegu efni sem er einsátta og einsleitt í tvíhliða núningssnertingu við stíft yfirborð. Töluleg úrlausn á þessu verkefni reynist vera

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Benedikt Magnússon (22/09/14)Benedikt Magnússon (22/09/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Benedikt Magnússon Titill: Carleman approximations Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 22. september, frá 15:00 til 16:00. Ágrip: I will introduce Carleman’s remarkable extension of the Weierstrass approximation theorem. In its simplest form it states that if and are continuous functions on the real line , and then there exists an entire

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Thomas Vallier (15/09/14)Thomas Vallier (15/09/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Thomas Vallier, University of Iceland Titill: Bootstrap percolation on the random graph Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 15. september, frá 15:00 til 16:00. Ágrip: Bootstrap percolation on the random graph is a process of spread of “activation” on a given realization of the graph with a given number of initially active

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Douglas P. Wiens (12/09/14)Douglas P. Wiens (12/09/14)

Málstofa í tölfræði Fyrirlesari: Douglas P. Wiens, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta Titill: Robustness of Design: A Survey Staðsetning: V-147, VRII Tími: Föstudagur 12. september, frá 12:00 til 13:00 Ágrip: When an experiment is conducted for purposes which include fitting a particular model to the data, then the ‘optimal’ experimental design

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Andrzej Borowiec: Fyrirlestrar um heimsfræðiAndrzej Borowiec: Mini course on Cosmology

Fyrirlestraröð Fyrirlesari: Andrzej Borowiec Titill: Twisted techniques in deformation quantization. Part 2: Thursday, September 11th, 16:00-17:30 in room V-156, VR-II. Part 3: Friday, September 12th, 15:00-16:30 in room V-155, VR-II. Abstract: Deformation quantization is a generalization of Weyl quantization extended to Poisson manifolds (Fedosov, Kontsevich). It is based on deformation theory of algebraic structures introduced

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