Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Anthony Thomas Lyons, Waterford Institute of Technology Titill: The dressing method for the Camassa-Holm equation Staðsetning: HB-5 (Háskólabíó) Tími: Mánudagur 26. mars kl. 10:50 Ágrip: The Camassa-Holm equation is a nonlinear shallow water model which has been the focus of a great deal of mathematical research in hydrodynamics for the past […]
Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Phillip Wesolek, Binghamton University Titill: Totally disconnected locally compact groups: from examples to general theory Staðsetning: HB-5 (Háskólabíó) Tími: Mánudagur 5. mars kl. 10:50 Ágrip: Locally compact groups arise in many areas of mathematics as well as in physics. The study of locally compact groups splits into two cases: the connected
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Fyrirlesari: Alexander Wendland, University of Warwick Titill: Facially restricted graph colouring’s Staðsetning: HB-5 (Háskólabíó) Tími: Mánudagur 19. febrúar kl. 10:50 Ágrip: Arguably one of the best known theorems from combinatorics is the four colour theorem, stating that every planar graph can be coloured using at most four colours such that no edge connects two vertices
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Postdoctoral position in mathematics at the University of Iceland
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at the University of Iceland financed by The Icelandic Research Fund. The research project is called: „Scaling limits of random enriched trees“ and is in the field of probabilistic combinatorics. The project includes studying scaling limits of random graphs, statistical mechanical models on random planar maps and related
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PhD position in mathematics at the University of Iceland
Applications are invited for a three year PhD position in mathematics at the University of Iceland with a starting date in Fall 2018. The position is funded by a grant from the Icelandic Research Fund. The successful candidate will work in the area of probabilistic combinatorics with emphasis on scaling limits of random graphs, statistical
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Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Hjörtur Björnsson, University of Iceland Titill: Lyapunov functions for almost sure exponential stability Staðsetning: VRII-158 Tími: Mánudagur 27. nóvember kl. 15:00 Ágrip: We present a generalization of results obtained by X. Mao in his book „Stochastic Differential Equations and Applications“ (2008). When studying what Mao calls „almost sure exponential stability“, essentially
Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Sigurður Freyr Hafstein, University of Iceland Titill: Dynamical Systems and Lyapunov functions Staðsetning: VRII-158 Tími: Mánudagur 13. nóvember kl. 15:00 Ágrip: We discuss dynamical systems and the theory of Lyapunov functions and complete Lyapunov functions. Further, we discuss several different numerical methods for the computation of Lyapunov functions and the corresponding
Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Sigurður Örn Stefánsson, University of Iceland Titill: The phase structure of random outerplanar maps Staðsetning: VRII-158 Tími: Mánudagur 30. október kl. 15:00 Ágrip: An outerplanar map is a drawing of a planar graph in the sphere which has the property that there is a face in the map such that all
Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Bjarki Ágúst Guðmundsson, University of Iceland Titill: Enumerating permutations sortable by k passes through a pop-stack Staðsetning: VRII-158 Tími: Mánudagur 18. september kl. 15:00 Ágrip: In an exercise in the first volume of his famous series of books, Knuth considered sorting permutations by passing them through a stack. He noted that,
Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Nuno Romao, IHES Titill: Vortex moduli and the physics of gauged sigma-models Staðsetning: Naustið, Endurmenntun Tími: Föstudagur 15. september kl. 13:30 Ágrip: Vortices appear as static and stable solutions in field theories known as gauged sigma-models; these are defined on surfaces and can have both linear and nonlinear targets. I will