Katarzyna Lewandowska (22/12/14)Katarzyna Lewandowska (22/12/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Katarzyna Lewandowska Titill: Sierpiński’s scheme of research on the Axiom of Choice Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 22. desember, frá 15:00-16:00. Ágrip: In 1904 Ernst Zermelo has formulated the Axiom of Choice – the most interesting and the most discussed axiom after Euclid’s Axiom of Parallel. The debate on the status […]

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Ólafur Birgir Davíðsson (17/12/14)Ólafur Birgir Davíðsson (17/12/14)

Meistaraprófsfyrirlestur Ólafur Birgir Davíðsson Titill: Bayesian Flood Frequency Analysis Using Monthly Maxima Staðsetning: VR-II, V-157. Tímasetning: Miðvikudagur 17. desember, klukkan 14:00 til 15:00. Ágrip: In this thesis a statistical flood frequency analysis model is proposed working fully within the framework of Bayesian hierarchical models and latent Gaussian models. The model uses monthly maxima as opposed

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Patrice Lassère (15/12/14)Patrice Lassère (15/12/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Patrice Lassère, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Titill: When is contained in ? Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 15. desember, frá 10:00 til 11:00.Math Colloquium Speaker: Patrice Lassère, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Title: When is contained in ? Location: V-157, VRII Time: Monday, December 15 at 10:00-11:00.

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Jakob Björnberg (17/11/14)Jakob Björnberg (17/11/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Jakob Björnberg, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Göteborg Titill: Percolation in random quadrangulations of the half-plane Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 17. nóvember, frá 15:00 til 16:00. Ágrip: The topic of random planar quadrangulations (and, more generally, random planar maps) is of interest to probabilists, combinatorialists and physicists alike. Recent years have seen

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Sigrún Helga Lund (10/11/14)Sigrún Helga Lund (10/11/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Sigrún Helga Lund, Háskóli Íslands Titill: Multiple spots with the same probe on tiled RNA expression microarrays Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 10. nóvember, frá 15:00 til 16:00. Ágrip: Tiled microarrays are a technology to target non-coding RNAs. In this thesis, custom arrays are designed with the same probe at multiple

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Arkadiusz Lewandowski (03/11/14)Arkadiusz Lewandowski (03/11/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Arkadiusz Lewandowski, University of Iceland Titill: Separate vs joint regularity of functions Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 3. nóvember, frá 15:00 til 16:00. Ágrip: Consider the following problem: Given two domains , where equals either or , and a function on the product , taking complex values, and such that: 1.

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Vísindadagur VoN 25. oktScience Day – October 25

Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið Háskóla Íslands stendur fyrir Vísinda- og tæknidegi VoN þann 25.október 2014. Markmiðið með deginum er að kveikja enn frekar áhuga almennings, ekki síst barna, á vísindum og tækninýjungum ásamt því að kynna rannsóknir á sviðinu á mannamáli. http://visindadagur.hi.is On October 25th 2014, University of Iceland’s School of Engineering and Natural Science will

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Sigurður Örn Stefánsson (27/10/14)Sigurður Örn Stefánsson (27/10/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Sigurður Örn Stefánsson, University of Iceland Titill: Convergence of random planar maps to the Brownian tree Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 27. október, frá 15:15 til 16:15. Ágrip: Random planar maps are defined by assigning non-negative weights to each face of a planar map and the weight of a face depends

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Sara Sabrina Zemljic (20/10/14)Sara Sabrina Zemljic (20/10/14)

Málstofa í stærðfræði Fyrirlesari: Sara Sabrina Zemljic, University of Iceland Titill: Sierpiński graphs, framhald af fyrirlestri 6. okt Staðsetning: V-157, VRII Tími: Mánudagur 20. 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.

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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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